Our Curriculum
At Elms Farm Primary School we have tailored our curriculum to meet the needs and interests of our children through our core values – ambition, community and equality. Our Subject Leaders ensure that the units are progressively taught and deliver the National Curriculum objectives for each subject area.
Our curriculum is tailored to deliver the key skills recommended by research produced by The Sutton Trust (2017) to enable pupils in similar contexts as Elms Farm to be ready for life beyond education. As our key priorities are reading, writing & mathematical skills, we also identify key texts to match to each unit with purposeful writing experiences and opportunities to develop mathematical skills in a real-life context.
Our Curriculum Intent
ETHOS & VALUES
Our key values are threaded through our curriculum:
Ambition: we want our children to be ambitious, to develop their strengths and interests and hold high aspirations.
Community: we take pride in our local community for our children to be proud of who they are and how they can contribute to their community and the wider world.
Equality: Elms Farm Primary School values each and every pupil. We want our pupils to understand that everyone should be valued and treated equally.
The curriculum at Elms Farm Primary School has been designed to enable our pupils to:
- Be confident and competent readers
- Be able to write in a variety of styles and present information in different ways
- Apply their mathematical knowledge in a variety of contexts
- Know about the world we live in and its key moments in history
- Have rich experiences to take them beyond their local community
- Be curious about the world around them and able to learn with resilience
- Be ready for the world beyond primary school, to develop their interests and be ambitious
We have designed our curriculum to provide our pupils with the key skills needed to be successful citizens, as outlined in research by The Sutton Trust (2017).
The EFPS Curriculum
Planning Subject Areas through Topic units: Ensuring progression
The children at Elms Farm enjoy presenting their work in double-page spreads. There are opportunities for writing threaded throughout our curriculum.
Our topic display work
Our topic book work
The EFPS curriculum adheres to the Birmingham Curriculum Statement set out in the document below.
How have we improved our Wider Curriculum?
Curriculum development journey document
Autumn Unit Overviews
- Year 1 - A1 - What is in the world around me?
- Year 1 - A2 - Am I making history?
- Year 2 - A1&2 - Why should I go to Sheldon?
- Year 3 - A1 - How do I use a map?
- Year 3 - A2 - How do natural disasters affect the world?
- Year 4 - A1 - home or abroad?
- Year 4 - A2 - What did the Romans do for us?
- Year 5 - A1&2 - What is a river's journey?
- Year 6 - A1 & 2 - Mexico and the Maya?
Spring Unit Overviews
- Year 1 - Sp1 and 2 - How do we know Birmingham and London are cities?
- Year 2 - Sp1 - What is it like in Africa?
- Year 3 - Sp1&2 - Stone Age to Iron Age: How did Britain Change?
- Year 4 - Sp1 and 2 - Why was Britain invaded by the Saxons and Vikings?
- Year 5 - Sp 1&2 - Why does the USA have different climate zones?
- Year 6 - Sp1 - What was the impact of WWII on the West Midlands?
Summer Unit Overviews
- Year 1 - Sum 1&2 - Do all superheroes wear capes?
- Year 2 - Sum 1&2 - Why do we visit the seaside?
- Year 3 - Sum 1 - Why is Greece popular?
- Year 3 - Sum 2 - What did the Ancient Greeks do for us?
- Year 4 - Sum 1&2 - What is a biome? Why are rainforests and oceans important to our lives?
- Year 5 - Sum 1&2 - What were the achievements of the Ancient Egyptians?
- Year 6 Sum 1 and 2 Why was the Industrial Revolution important to the West Midlands?
EYFS Wider Curriculum Documents
If you require any further information about our curriculum please contact the school office on 0121 4644634.