At Pulham Primary School, children are the heart of our Vision. Everyone will flourish when working together in a safe environment, rooted and grounded in Christian values. A culture of excellence together with our broad-based curriculum ensures pupils are equipped with wisdom, knowledge and skills. A desire for learning enables us to make a difference in the modern world. 

Our curriculum has been specifically designed for our school, collaboratively with the Dimensions Curriculum team and our school staff. 

Intent

At Pulham, we have designed and implemented an aspirational curriculum that is both immersive and progressive. We use a carefully planned model, with both breadth and depth, that is highly relevant and purposeful, and that truly broadens pupils’ outlook and views by promoting global perspectives.

We aim to offer hands-on, cohesive and challenging learning, highlighting human creativity and achievement. We strive to help our pupils realise the full potential they have to achieve and succeed, not just at school, but as educated citizens within their own community and on a wider global scale. We want the pupils’ learning to be ‘outward-facing’, enabling them to become well-rounded and happy individuals who, not only care about themselves, but about others and the environment.

We want to provide all our children with opportunities for learning which leads to maximum growth and development is our top priority, including designing and implementing a curriculum that is best suited to their needs. We want to provide them with a curriculum with both breadth and depth, that is highly relevant and purposeful, exciting for both staff and pupils, and that is aligned to the locality and all it has to offer.

Our curriculum is inclusive, challenging the more able, whilst directly addressing specific areas for development.

Our intent is to raise standards across all subjects, to enable our pupils to access and engage with their learning to ensure both academic and personal success.

Rationale for Implementation

We use Dimension’s ‘Learning Means the World’ Curriculum as the main vehicle for achieving our outlined intent, with a view to providing an ambitious, contemporary, relatable curriculum offer.

This curriculum is underpinned by four highly relevant world issues, known as the four Cs:-

Communication

Culture

Conflict

Conservation

Communication

We believe that being able to effectively communicate thoughts and ideas is vital to learning and life as the key to success. Our pupils need to know about all different forms of communication and be able to pick up on social cues, learning how to hold a meaningful two-way conversation from a young age, away from screens. We want to provide the opportunity for our pupils to feel heard and understood. 

Culture

We want our pupils to understand the wider world and their place in it. We want to challenge mind sets and help them to become more outward-facing. It is important to prepare and equip them for future experiences by helping them appreciate and understand cultural similarities and differences. 

We actively and explicitly promote cross-cultural respect, tolerance and understanding, linked to British Values and PSHE through our curriculum offer. 

Conflict

All pupils will undoubtedly encounter conflict in life. Conflict resolution is so important in terms of wellbeing and being able to deal positively with confrontation on a personal level will stand pupils in good stead for adult life and help them to lead happier lives.

We want them to understand the different drivers and markers for conflict and learn about current conflicts, not just the World Wars. Having a developed understanding of sources of conflict and recognising the impact that conflict can have on relationships on a personal, local, national and international scale, we believe, will make a difference to their own choices.

Effective communication is vital to working positively through conflict and we want to help our pupils to learn how to disagree well.

Conservation

Our pupils are very passionate about sustainability. However, it needs to be linked to their own experiences. We want our pupils to be a community who problem-solve and work as stewards, locally as well as nationally and globally to leave a positive legacy. We also want them to be socially conscious, active global citizens, who question and challenge what is necessary.

We also encourage our pupils to have high aspirations by teaching them about human creativity and achievement through additional Competency Units about famous figures that focus on Creativity, Commitment, Courage and Community.

If you would like more information about our curriculum, please make contact with our Headteacher, Mrs H Beckett.