Monkspath Junior and Infant School

We are a very large primary school, bonded by our highly prized School Values and seated right in the heart of Solihull in the West Midlands. We take pride in celebrating the rich diversity of our families and community and from learning from each other. Ours is a happy school, with passionate staff who see children as individuals and work enthusiastically to ensure all of our children thrive. The whole child is at the center of all we do and all of the decisions we take.

We are ambitious for every single one of our children, we are inclusive and believe in every child’s right to be happy, successful and to be prepared for their future lives as learners and as members of society. This belief underpins every aspect of school life, of working in partnership with our families and drives all that we do.

We know children achieve when they are safe, challenged and purposefully engaged. To this end, we strive for academic rigor and excellence through an enriched, creative and tailored curriculum, helping all children to develop positive attitudes toward themselves and others and setting them on the path of life-long learning with the knowledge, attributes, beliefs and skills that they need to succeed.

 

Our School Values

                                              We strive to ensure that every child will be the best they possibly can be tomorrow…

                                                                                                          …without forgetting that they are someone very special today.

Curriculum Intent

The design of our curriculum at Monkspath Junior and Infant School provides for rich and relevant experiences which inspire pupils to learn, grow and flourish. We intertwine the teaching of both knowledge and skills, alongside developing essential learning behaviours and embedding the skills that our children will need for future learning. Central to this is the constant reinforcement of our School Values which are both an outcome of our curriculum and are pivotal in the curriculum choices we make.

Our curriculum not only meets national requirements, but is uniquely developed by us to meet the needs of our pupils, our school and our local community. Gaining proficiency as a reader is key to accessing all other subject areas and therefore holds a place of priority for all children, beginning in the Early Years alongside numeracy and writing. 

Our curriculum is personalised around our children’s needs, reflecting the backgrounds and experiences of the wide range of pupils we have from family heritages that are locally based or are rooted from around the globe. It is outward-facing, setting learning in local and global contexts wherever possible; it celebrates diversity and unity and ensures that learning is relevant, purposeful and sequenced.  

Curriculum plans are continuously under review ensuring that they are fit for purpose and that they provide benchmarks in learning, detailing what we want our children to acquire by specific end points. 

 

Curriculum Design

Our Curriculum Design:

• Develops sequential, progressional learning, where pupils know more and can do more than before. It builds on what they have been previously taught and understand and how this fits with what they will be learning next.
• Has a strong focus on subject disciplines and subject-specific skills and knowledge.
• Considers depth and breadth and provides frequent opportunities to revise, practice, memorise and reshape previous learning.
• Provides clear links to purposeful assessment.
• Reflects the needs and views of our children developing their skills, interests, strengths and areas of relative weakness.
• Underpins the development of our children’s resilience, character and personality. 
• Reinforces a shared understanding of our School Values.

You can find out further information about our curriculum by contacting your child's teacher or the School Office.

 

READING

We use Bug Club Phonics as our phonics scheme.

We use the Bug Club reading scheme across school.  Parents across the school have access to Bug Club online where there are a range of books and reading activities to use at home.  

In the following sections you will see information about what our children learn in each year group, if you need more specific information then please do ask us by contacting the schol office or your child's teacher. The links below will give you details of our whole school curriculum:

Futher details of our Health and Relationships Education, include guidance and support materials for parents can be found by clicking here.

Our English and mathematics assessment criteria can be found below.

	Reading	Writing	Maths
Reception	assessment framework Reception	assessment framework Reception	assessment framework Reception
Year 1	assessment framework Year 1	assessment framework Year 1	assessment framework Year 1
Year 2	assessment framework Year 2	assessment framework Year 2	assessment framework Year 2
Year 3	assessment framework Year 3	assessment framework Year 3	assessment framework Year 3
Year 4	assessment framework Year 4	assessment framework Year 4	assessment framework Year 4
Year 5	assessment framework Year 5	assessment framework Year 5	assessment framework Year 5
Year 6	assessment framework Year 6	assessment framework Year 6	assessment framework Year 6

Please click on the links below for details of our Early Years curriculum. 

Our Early Years Curriculum Goals

Nursery curriculum overview and skills progression

Reception curriculum overview and skills progression

The Right of Withdrawal from Religious Education:

Our curriculum is is planned with the belief that it is important that all pupils should have an opportunity to engage in RE.   However, the parent of a pupil at a community, foundation or voluntary school may request that they be excused from all or part of the religious education (RE) provided.

Parents who wish to withdraw their children from RE should be aware of its aims and what is covered in the RE curriculum and that they are given the opportunity to discuss this. If pupils are withdrawn from RE, schools have a duty to supervise them, though not to provide additional teaching.  A pupil may be required to work in another area of the school, such as working a within a different year group or different part of school.

Whilst parents or carers have a right to withdraw children from RE, they should note that children may also encounter religions and beliefs and wider aspects of faith in other areas of the curriculum from which there is no right of withdrawal. On occasion, spontaneous questions about religious matters are raised by pupils or issues related to religion arise in other curriculum subjects such as history or citizenship (PSHE).