Curriculum

At St Matthew’s we pride ourselves on delivering an ambitious and enriching curriculum that not only delivers a broad and balanced curriculum in line with National Curriculum expectations, but that provides the children with a rich and varied approach to learning. The curriculum is designed to help children understand and respond to the real-world challenges they see around them. Through lessons and activities, pupil learn how to stay safe online, care for the environment, respect and include others, and manage their own feelings. We link learning to everyday life - for example, by teaching digital safety in computing, recycling in science, and kindness and teamwork in personal and social lessons. This helps children develop not only knowledge and skills but also confidence, empathy, and responsibility they need to make to positive choices and contribute to a better world.

As well as our learning indoors, we are fortunate to have extensive outdoor space-including our meadow, adventure playground and sports field. Through these open spaces, we are able to offer all year groups the opportunity to develop their understanding of the world by taking their learning from the classroom and out to nature through our WILD Passport outdoor learning curriculum.

In addition, children today are exposed to a range of social challenges such as:

- Digital & media influences (social media, misinformation)

- Environmental concerns (climate change, pollution)

- Social inequality & diversity (gender, race, disability inclusion)

- Mental health & wellbeing (stress, bullying, family issues)

- Rapid technological change (AI, automation)

- Global crises (pandemics, conflicts, migration)

Our responsive curriculum is one that evolves to address the changing needs and challenges that children face in today's society. Children are exposed to a variety of social, environmental, technological and emotional influences and we have a responsibility to help them make sense of these experiences while preparing them to be thoughtful, responsible citizens.

For further information on specific subjects, please click through to the relevant pages on the right hand side.