St. Peter's Curriculum

Intent: At St. Peter’s we inspire a passion for learning.  Our continually evolving, rich curriculum endeavours to respond to the needs of our pupils, whilst reflecting the dynamic world in which we live.

Through our cross-curricular approach, we strive to unlock the potential inside each and every unique individual by providing opportunities for all pupils to Achieve and do the very best they can; Believe in the Christian ethos of our school and themselves as unique individuals; and Create a happy, healthy and successful future equipping them with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to become global, national and local citizens, well-prepared to face the challenges of life.  This is achieved through an immersive themed curriculum built upon the following key principles:

Implementation

We strongly believe that our broad and balanced curriculum at St. Peter’s goes beyond the statutory requirements of both the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and National Curriculum. 

Our subject leaders are responsible for mapping out the curriculum for their area and for ensuring it is taught effectively reflecting our overarching curriculum intent, shared vision and values.  Class teachers plan the delivery in their classroom exploring links between subjects developing knowledge, skills and understanding through interconnected themes. 

Due to our mixed age classes, our curriculum themes rotate on a two, three or four-year cycle, taking into consideration a number of factors including: the needs and previous experiences of a year group; key international events such as the Olympics; the local environment; and community. 

Not only do teachers plan and deliver a wide range of activities as part of classroom learning, but pupils also benefit from visits, visitors, leadership opportunities and a wide range of extra-curricular activities during and after school.  Many sporting and enrichment activities take place across the year due to several partnerships including Mid-Sussex Active, NEARS (North-East Area Rural Schools) and Ardingly College.  All of these contribute to the learning, development and well-being of our children, and enrich life at St. Peter’s CE Primary School. 

Our curriculum themes for 2023-24 are as follows:

To find out more about the curriculum theme specific to each class, click on the appropriate overview heading in the table above.  At the beginning of each term, class teachers send out a curriculum letter which provides further details of the wonderful cross-curricular learning planned.  Children are also given a Homework Menu at this time from which they are able to choose activities to complete at home.  This enables parents and carers to clearly see the links between homework tasks and what is being covered in the class. The curriculum letters for each class can also be found in the table above. 

To find out about more about specific areas of the curriculum, please follow the subject links on the righthand side of the page.  Links to the curriculum themes for previous academic years can be found below.

Curriculum Themes 2022-23
Curriculum Themes 2021-22