Our Curriculum Aims
At Blakehill, we are committed to delivering an ambitious and uncompromising curriculum that promotes both excellence and enjoyment for every pupil. We strive to ensure that all learners gain the knowledge, skills, understanding, attitudes, and values they need to thrive—both now and in their future lives.
At Blakehill, our curriculum is built on a clear and purposeful rationale, rooted in full coverage of the National Curriculum. It is thoughtfully designed to ensure that learning is carefully sequenced, allowing pupils to build on prior knowledge and skills while preparing them for future success.
We aim to provide a rich and engaging curriculum in which all pupils can thrive. It encourages independence, resilience, and a proactive, problem-solving mindset—equipping learners with the knowledge and skills needed for the next stage of their education and beyond.
The Curriculum at Blakehill
Blakehill Primary ensures the pupils are offered an engaging curriculum that builds confident and well-rounded pupils. Research highlights the powerful influence of expectations on performance, motivation, and well-being. Setting clear, positive, and achievable expectations, while also managing expectations to avoid undue pressure, can lead to more positive outcomes in the classroom and wider school environment. Clear expectations are laid out below to support subject leads in monitoring and developing their subject area and are also in place to support classroom teachers in meeting the requirements of each area of the curriculum.
To find out what each class is learning and how this builds on prior learning, please look at out long term plans (LTP overviews) on the next page.
Teachers present learning to pupils in a way that fosters curiosity and enables the pupils to learn through an enquiry-based approach. This, alongside high-quality teacher instruction, modelling and personalised feedback is the right balance to maximise pupils’ progress. Throughout lessons, retrieval practice is evident and essential to ensure the retention of key facts, knowledge and skills. This collaborative approach is all inclusive and with the support of scaffolding and mixed ability groupings, we ensure each child, regardless of their needs, is exposed to the highest quality of teaching. Lessons are delivered in a clear and consistent approach across all year groups and across all subject areas. A Blakehill lesson is structured into four purposeful parts; retrieve, build, apply and reflect.
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A Blakehill Lesson
A Blakehill lesson is based primarily on recent science and research with additional emphasis placed on a dialogic approach to learning. Oracy is central to all learning and this dialogic approach ensures high levels of engagement in lessons and therefore high levels of academic success. Pupils’ thinking is challenged throughout lessons as pupils are encouraged to reason, discuss and explain in order to develop higher order thinking and articulacy. Teachers present learning to pupils in a way that fosters curiosity and enables the pupils to learn through an enquiry-based approach. This, alongside high-quality teacher instruction, modelling and personalised feedback is the right balance to maximise pupils’ progress. Throughout lessons, retrieval practice is evident and essential to ensure the retention of key facts, knowledge and skills. This collaborative approach is all inclusive and with the support of scaffolding and mixed ability groupings, we ensure each child, regardless of their needs, is exposed to the highest quality of teaching. Lessons are delivered in a clear and consistent approach across all year groups and across all subject areas. A Blakehill lesson is structured into four purposeful parts; retrieve, build, apply and reflect.