Connected Curriculum Design

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Holistic Curriculum and Values

Our holistic curriculum places the child at the centre, nurturing the whole self so that every learner feels safe, ready and respected, with the confidence to thrive. Knowledge and skills are carefully built through rich subject disciplines, while opportunities for play, self-expression and personal growth develop self-esteem and independence.

Surrounding this, our school and wider community provide meaningful experiences that extend learning beyond the classroom through collaboration, enrichment, spirituality, and engagement with the unique context of Bath. Our Christian vision and values of Peace, Love, Joy, Creativity, Courage and Hope shape every layer, guiding children to become compassionate, confident individuals who understand their place in the world and their responsibility within it.

Curriculum Planning Principles

Our curriculum is accessible by design, using approaches such as dual coding to present learning clearly through words, visuals, and structured modelling. Carefully sequenced lessons revisit prior knowledge, explicitly teach vocabulary, and provide guided practice so that all pupils can understand, apply, and succeed with confidence.

Progression of Disciplinary Skills

St Andrew’s History Curriculum Years 1-6

St Andrew’s Geography Curriculum Years 1-6

St Andrew’s Science Curriculum Years 1-6

St Andrew’s Art and Design Curriculum EYFS – Yr 6

St Andrew’s Design Technology Curriculum Years 1-6

St Andrew’s Music Curriculum Years 1-6

St Andrew’s Computing Curriculum Years 1-6

Connected Curriculum Road Maps

Each foundation subject within our Connected Curriculum is mapped through a clear and carefully sequenced road map. These are driven by strong subject disciplines, with the humanities acting as key organisers, connecting knowledge across time, place, and context.

Our road maps show how learning builds progressively, linking units, vocabulary, and concepts while making meaningful connections to our local area and wider world. This ensures that pupils develop secure knowledge, understand how subjects interconnect, and see purpose and relevance in their learning journey across the curriculum.

For example, our carefully sequenced History Road Map builds pupil understanding of the past while making meaningful links to geography, science, and the wider world. Rooted in rich local contexts across Bath, the curriculum connects learning to real places, people, and experiences, enabling children to deepen their knowledge, make connections, and see themselves as part of an ongoing story

Early Years Hub Curriculum

Birthto5Matters framework underpinning the St Andrew’s EYFS Curriculum

Our EYFS curriculum is carefully designed to provide a rich, ambitious and engaging start to every child’s learning journey. Learning is thoughtfully sequenced, with Understanding the World providing a meaningful context that helps children make connections across the curriculum. Through a balance of explicit teaching, purposeful play and high-quality enhanced provision, children develop secure knowledge, language and skills. Carefully planned experiences, rich vocabulary and skilled adult interactions ensure that every child is supported and challenged to become a confident, curious and independent learner, ready for the next stage of their education.

EYFS Planning Principles

Our EYFS curriculum is built on clear planning principles that help children develop knowledge, language and understanding through purposeful play and carefully sequenced teaching. Learning begins with what children already know, introduces new vocabulary and concepts explicitly, and provides opportunities to explore, practise and apply learning in meaningful ways. Skilled adults use questioning, modelling and high-quality provision enhancements to deepen children’s thinking, nurture curiosity and ensure every child is supported and challenged to achieve their best.

Book Choices

Carefully chosen high-quality texts are at the heart of our EYFS curriculum. Books are selected to enrich vocabulary, spark curiosity and support children’s understanding of the world. Through a diverse range of stories, non-fiction texts and rhymes, children develop a love of reading while building knowledge, language and imagination across all areas of learning.

Additional School Wide Schemes

The following schemes of work are used to support and inform the delivery of the following area pf the curriculum provision:

MFL: Language Angels

PSHE and RSHE: Jigsaw

RE: Jigsaw RE

Physical Education: Complete PE

Phonics and Early Reading: Little Wandle

Computing: Teach Computing

Music: Charanga

Online Safety: Project Evolve

Handwriting: Letter Join

PSHE

Our PSHE curriculum is a whole school approach underpinning our children’s development as people in the ever changing world around them, it enables unique opportunities for children to explore life’s big questions in a safe, engaging and creative way.

Our PSHE curriculum covers all areas of PSHE for the primary phase including statutory Relationships and Health Education. Please click on the links below for further information.

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Our PSHE Policy: uk-jigsaw-pshe-incl-rshe-policy