Our Trust's aims for a top class curriculum will deliver our vision and enable our mission. St John's has designed our curriculum based on the Trust's agreed principles or learning guarantees.
Our curriculum:
- has Catholic life, RE and Gospel values at its centre;
- is fully inclusive;
- is built on the theory and practice of learning, namely Rosenshine's Princples;
- allows for learning to be more explicit, permeable, progressive and with links across the curriculum;
- ensures continuous provision in and beyind the classroom;
- has clear progressions of content, knowledge, skills and understanding in all year groups across the school;
- has blocked teaching sequences for each subject;
- has quality outcomes;
- ensures constant practise and use of equipment;
- is taught by teachers with expert subject knowledge;
- ensures learning which children can retain, recall, apply and explain.
Curriculum Enrichment
Our children are entitled to experiences which support their physical, mental, social and emotional development, as well as prepare them for secondary school and future adult life. We have developed a series of activity passports, showing a rich variety of experiences, which every child will particpate in before they leave St John's.
*Please note that activity passports will be updated during the 2025-26 academic year to reflect the recent changes to the curriculum*