Our Curriculum.

Ethos:

Rayleigh Primary School, its children and adults, is an extension of the community it serves, its beliefs, aspirations and achievements. As this community grows through access to the wider world so must the aims of our school grow to meet the diversity of opportunities offered to our children. Recognition of this diversity and a commitment to the individual lies at the heart of our philosophy.

We envisage our Primary Education as encompassing four key cross curricular strands: -

Core Skills:

The acquisition of logical cognitive skills, developed through science, literacy and numeracy.

Research Skills:

The independence of learning and presentation through the skills of ‘finding out’. This information acquisition lies within the ‘humanities’ but also includes ICT.

Creative Skills:

The conveyance of meaning through considered and creative expression of their opinions through the ‘arts’.

Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Skills (PSHCE):

The teaching of children to be confident, respectful, tolerant, charitable, healthy, fit and demonstrating care and concern for their world and its inhabitants.

These expectations and the ethos we promote exist to enable every child to share in an education that is rich, varied, challenging and inspiring, that enables them, by becoming independent learners, to fulfil their potential to the highest possible standard.

How our curriculum looks to Children.

Wherever possible we infuse English and Maths through themes we call modules. Our modules are either Creative, Research PSHCE or Science in nature.

Creativity, PSHCE, Research, Science, French, P.E., Dance/Drama, Music