Primary Wider Curriculum

Our Primary wider curriculum aims to enthuse our children with a curiosity for each subject, whilst providing them with a good foundation of subject specific skills and knowledge to enable them to succeed at Secondary school.

We teach Science, History, Geography, Art and Design Technology through the CUSP (Curriculum with Unity Schools Partnership) curriculum.

Driven by an unshakable belief in every child’s potential, the CUSP curriculum sparks curiosity and deepens understanding through a tapestry of knowledge, skill-building, and hands-on exploration. Woven into its fabric is powerful vocabulary instruction to support every child to reach their full potential.

All our Primary pupils experience Latin.  This gives them a good grounding in language learning, as a foundation to their study of either French or Latin in Senior School. It also builds their understanding of how our own language and vocabulary is formed.

Music is delivered through Secondary specialists through the Charanga curriculum which covers the following areas:  Listening and Appraising; Musical Activities — creating and exploring; and Singing and Performing which incorporates playing a selection of different instruments.

Physical Education is delivered by Secondary specialists and by class teachers. We teach a range of sports and encourage our pupils to be fit and active as well as competing against each other, in Houses and in local tournaments. 

Our Primary Computing curriculum follows Teach Computing.  Computing in each year group comprises of the following units: Computing systems & networks, Creating media, Digital writing, Programming and Data & Information.  The Computing Curriculum follows a spiral model, meaning themes are revisited regularly, building on prior learning, and creating a cyclical approach to teaching computing concepts.  Online Safety is taught within Computing lessons and PSHE and CC time. 

We teach Religious Education following the agreed syllabus for Darlington.  As part of their learning, children develop their knowledge, critical thinking and reflection skills.

NTI (Nosce te Ipsum) is our PSHE curriculum and is taught using the Jigsaw PSHE curriculum, which provides a detailed and comprehensive scheme of learning for our pupils from 4-16. The Jigsaw curriculum covers Personal, Social and Health Education, Relationships and Health Education for our Primary pupils and RSE for our Secondary students as well as emotional literacy, social skills and spiritual development.