It is our belief that every child deserves to aspire and succeed, to lead a purposeful life as a valued citizen.
We believe that a well-planned curriculum that promotes a love of learning and a willingness to explore and challenge children’s thinking is of upmost importance. We use the National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage as a starting point for our curriculum but have adapted the content to ensure it is relevant and relatable to the children who attend Holy Trinity. This enables our children to deepen and master their knowledge and skills in multiple subjects and make meaningful links across the curriculum.
Our key focus areas - Language Development, Identity, Independence, Critical Thinking, Spirituality and Knowledge of the World - are embedded throughout our curriculum, providing innovative and rich opportunities to enhance essential knowledge and skills.
To foster a whole school holistic approach, we have divided the curriculum into six topics, which are taught across the whole school with each year group focusing on a different learning block.
Each subject has a clear coherent sequence linked to the learning of knowledge, skills and vocabulary so children can recall the detailed content outlined in the curriculum and make links between the learning. We encourage the children to explore and challenge their thinking, through developing research skills, debate and questioning.
Our first topic – Journeys Through Time, Place and Mind, enables pupils to develop their sense of identity, citizenship and how people’s journeys through time have shaped Great Britain.
From learning about family, home and heritage in Reception to Windrush and migration in Key Stage 2, our children examine and explore how we have arrived in today’s world. Our children are able to embed their learning through trips and visits to places of culture, local interest, places of work, community and worship. In our topic – The Power of the Arts, every child will develop the skills and knowledge of an artistic discipline from architecture to the performing arts.
The topic – In the Beginning… our children are scientists, investigating early life on Earth – dinosaurs to finding solutions to climate change.
Let’s Discover… provides pupils with the opportunities to examine a vast range of discoveries from new technology to space travel.
The World Within London enables pupils to deepen their knowledge of key historical events such The Blitz, that have shaped and changed London of today.
Finally our topic The World - Processes & Changes, explores the physical every-changing world, from farming to earthquakes and tsunamis.
Our Holy Trinity children are the future, and our core aim is to enable them to be whatever they may want to be. Our curriculum is the launch pad to guide them in becoming successful and responsible citizens of our future world.