Curriculum

The curriculum at Chingford CofE Primary is designed to meet and extend beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum. Our curriculum has suitable depth and breadth, is sequenced to build on prior learning and gives children the opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills. It is rooted in the solid consensus that every individual at CCofE  is determined to provide children with the tools required to take advantage of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life – powerfully overcoming any social disadvantage.

We teach using a topic-based approach but also ensure that we give sufficient focus to each subject discipline. The high-quality curriculum that we offer has been carefully crafted to give consideration to the sequence of content necessary for children to make good progress. For example, we provide children with the knowledge they need for subsequent learning through planned vocabulary development and provide pupils with opportunities to enhance their critical thinking skills by asking thought-provoking questions.

Our curriculum reflects our local context and meets the needs of the whole school. Through this approach, we ensure our children develop their ability to remain resilient in the face of challenge and display our school Christian values of compassion, service, humility, forgiveness, honesty, tolerance and tenacity when needed, whilst communicating prior knowledge and skills when making links between concepts developing their long-term memory. Our curriculum develops children both personally and pastorally. The foundation of all we teach is to instill in the children the message of Paul to the Philippians, "Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too."

We help our children evaluate their learning behaviours in terms of their goals which enhances their self-satisfaction and motivation as they continue to improve their methods of learning – leading them to them being able to know more, do more, and remember more. 

Subject leaders have created detailed, long and medium terms for every subject area. In this way, our curriculum intent is embedded securely and consistently across our school. Our teachers have a firm and common understanding of our curriculum and what it means for their practice. Across all parts of the school, series of lessons contribute well to delivering our curriculum intent and creative work given to pupils is carefully planned to provide learning experiences in engaging, cross-curricular innovative and inspiring ways. As a result, our children love to learn and produce work of a high quality and are well prepared for the next stage of their education.