Our curriculum underpins our school's vision of ensuring a happy, positive and child-centered learning environment. We will promote and encourage curiosity throughout our curriculum, encouraging challenge, memorable opportunities and experiences that will support dreams and aspirations to grow as confident, respectful and resilient individuals.

Our curriculum is:

• Exciting, Inspiring, engaging and stimulating 
• Creative, innovative, challenging and motivating
• Broad, balanced and relevant to our children and today’s society
• Flexible to allow children to follow their own lines of enquiry
• Teacher Autonomy over task choice to meet curricular goals
• Enriched and enhanced
• Supported by parents/carers and the community
• Regularly Reviewed
• Anchored by rich texts

Hook Days 

These are planned in advanced and are part of the long term curriculum plan. They are completed at the beginning of the half term and teachers are free to decide what type of ‘Hook Day’ they will prepare. Throughout the year we ask teachers to plan either:- A visit or trip out, Invite practitioners in - one of these each term. The other half term teachers are free to plan creatively and imaginatively for their hook days. 6 half term Hook Days - 3 of which will include teachers using their own creativity and 3 using outside agencies to engage. 

Use of iPads and New Technology 

At Crawshawbooth Primary School we aim to be at the very cutting edge of technology and use it to enhance our curriculum. The use of iPads and new technologies is encouraged but only in ways in which it will aid and improve teaching and learning within the classroom. At the moment we have a total of 160 iPads within school. This enables whole class 1:1 iPad lessons or these can be used for group work within lessons. All iPads have an extensive range of applications to engage, enthuse and improve learning. 

Working Walls 

Working walls support learning by making key knowledge, vocabulary and learning resources visible and accessible to children. They reflect the current topic or enquiry question and are developed throughout the unit to support children in making connections, revisiting prior learning and building new knowledge. They include subject-specific vocabulary, key information, models and examples of learning, providing prompts and scaffolds to help children work independently and apply their understanding. Working walls should be purposeful, interactive and regularly updated to reflect the learning taking place, with children's contributions used to celebrate and support their progress. 

PE and School Sport 

PE and School Sport is extremely important to our school and we invest a lot of energy and time into giving our children opportunities to participate in PE, Sport and healthy activities. We believe that PE can play a major part in the development of the whole child. Our PE and Sport Co-ordinator Miss Hardwicke and Miss Moss organise lunchtime activities and oversee our active playtimes and Playground Leaders. 

Outdoor Learning 

At every opportunity, we encourage learning outside the classroom and most lessons can be adapted to the outdoor environment. We have fantastic land at the back of our school, which we are free to use whenever and wherever we see fit.