Our Curriculum

In this section you will find details of the programmes of study and curriculum content for each subject across each year group.

In EYFS and Key Stage 1 the school uses Read Write Inc to support the teaching of phonics and reading. For useful information for parents on the phonics programme and how to support your child, please click here.

At Oyster Park we follow the Read to Write text-based approach to the teaching and learning of writing. Read to Write is an evidence-based high-quality teaching of writing through high-quality comprehensive literature units that have been carefully constructed so the entire statutory curriculum for English is covered from EYFS to Y6. These detailed units of work focus on engaging, vocabulary-rich texts, with a wealth of writing opportunities within and across the curriculum.For details of our school writing policy, please click here.

We believe good handwriting is an important skill for children to develop. For details of how we teach handwriting throughout the school and how you can support your child with this, please click here

The teaching of Mathematics at Oyster Park Primary Academy is based on the three key aims of the National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving. As a school, we follow the White Rose Maths Hub scheme of work. We aim to provide children with the ability to reason in a logical way, to recall known facts quickly and confidently so they are fluent in basic skills and to apply mathematics through problem solving in real life contexts and deeper challenges showing mastery of strands. We want to help children to see the links between maths and other subjects and deepen their understanding through investigations and applications of maths across the curriculum.

At Oyster Park, we encourage the use of concrete objects to aid pupil understanding and incorporate them into our teaching where possible.

For details of how we teach Mathematics throughout the school and how you can support your child with this, please click here to read our calculation policy.

The calculation policy explains the approaches that we have to teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and it shows how the methods change as children progress through the school. We hope you find this document useful in understanding how we teach children to carry out calculations.

For more information about the curriculum at Oyster Park Primary Academy please contact Mrs Bobycombe on the main school number, or email opoffice@northernambition.org.uk.

Our Trust Curriculum Expectations

Our Trust Curriculum

Our central purpose is to ensure that all children and young people within the Northern Ambition Academies Trust achieve the highest standards. We aim to develop and deliver a coherent curriculum that is ambitious, enriched, broad and engaging. One which builds on young people’s experiences and prior learning, enabling all of our young people to make progress, to leave our schools equipped with the essential skills they need to contribute effectively to society and to become well-rounded, confident, happy adults.

NAAT defines the curriculum as the ‘totality of a child’s experience’ of education from 3-18, but particularly:

• The quality of teaching and learning
• The explicit taught subject knowledge
• The development of cultural capital
• The development of broader skills and personal qualities

In NAAT Academies children and young people can expect:

• To be inspired
• To be inquisitive
• To be challenged
• To be ambitious
• To be nurtured

We achieve this via a curriculum that is driven by high quality teaching and learning, taught and assessed in order to support our children and young people to build their knowledge and to apply this knowledge as skills. Our curriculum is about ensuring progression by delivering high and age related expectations, increasingly through a Mastery approach. We feel that this:

Encourages deep subject knowledge

Enhances subject skills for learning and for life

Offers enriching opportunities within and beyond the classroom

We will assess in different ways but always to recognise the skills, attributes and characteristics of our school communities.

We understand the need for knowledge to underpin the application of skills – our academies will ensure skills are taught alongside the mastery of subject knowledge.

In NAAT, although made up of individual academies, our essentially, all-through model, recognises the importance of effective transition across Key Stages and of following progressive and developmental phases of learning. Our Hub working is instrumental in ensuring smooth transition.

As a consequence of our curriculum model our expectations for each of our pupils are for them to:

• Be ambitious and want to be the best they can be in whatever they choose to do
• Be brave, be able to work independently and interdependently
• Respect others and grow as a person
• Be a positive and an active member of their school community
• Be lifelong readers with a love of reading
• Be employable

All staff within our academies must have a firm and common understanding of the curriculum intent and what it means in practice. At NAAT, we expect the work that our pupils are expected to do, to match the curriculum aims and to be consistently of a high quality. In order for this to happen, we ensure that teachers have access to focused and effective professional development and are supported with work load and wellbeing.