Contact Details
- 01509263485
- office@cobden.leics.sch.uk
Cobden Primary School, Hume Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 1AF
Cobden
Primary School
Being the best version of you!
At Cobden Primary School our overarching aim is to work in partnership with our whole school community: our parents and carers and the local community to support our children to be the best that they can be, in all that they do.
We aim to create an ethos which ensures a positive, respectful, inclusive and stimulating environment, which nurtures the wellbeing of all of our children towards reaching their full potential. We aim to ensure that the children have the knowledge, the skills and the confidence to approach and thrive in the world that we live.
We have developed our approaches in the school to achieve this: we are continually developing our curriculum approaches on a shared understanding of what we want for our children and how we are going to achieve it.
Curriculum rationale – knowledge, skills, interests and approaches.
We have carefully planned out curriculum through a blend of statutory requirements of the National Curriculum but also with themes and approaches to interest and challenge the children within our own local context at the school – to understand: who we are, where we all come from, and how we can be the best version of ourselves now and in the future.
We deliver knowledge within our curriculum that:
We deliver skills within our curriculum that
We teach and encourage approaches that:
Curriculum Intent:
At Cobden we have developed a knowledge and skills led curriculum designed to give children a depth of learning and understanding that will give them a solid foundation that will enable them to become well-informed global citizens. Our core learning objectives and outcomes are derived from the National Curriculum. The approaches used in school are based around a Cobden ‘Learning Journey’ using principles from Barak Rosenshine’s ‘Principles of Learning’ to encourage recall and the making of links.
Each class has a long-term curriculum linked to four key themes of learning where being the best version of themselves is placed at the heart of their development. Learning is designed so that children will leave Cobden with a strong sense of:
Reading and Phonics form the main focus of learning at Cobden and are taught as a priority focus. Maths and English are taught daily and, wherever possible, are linked to the four key themes. We have an interdisciplinary approach to learning as we know that our learners succeed when they can make connections across disciplines. Therefore, our long-term plans combine two or three focus subject areas per theme where children can make links in their learning across and within subjects, including: Religious Studies, Geography, Science, History, Computing, Art, Design and Technology, Personal, Social and Health Education, PE. In order to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum, understanding is enhanced by stand-alone learning in these subjects as well as others such as Modern Foreign Languages, thereby ensuring that the outcomes required by the National Curriculum are met.
In order to make further links in our learning we use 6 key drivers as themes for the understanding that we want our children to develop as being part of growing up as a global citizen:
Equality
Healthy living
Technology
Sustainability
Civilisation
The rule of law
Curriculum Implementation:
Each Learning Journey starts with an end! We begin by focusing on the key outcomes with regards to knowledge and skills in each journey. Children and their teachers discuss and plan lessons around the knowledge and skills that children will need to achieve the key learning outcomes. In order to achieve this, small-steps are planned for, so all children are able to make progress across all subject areas. The approaches allow children and teachers to carefully think about their start points and their current understanding to really broaden and deepen their learning outcomes for a purpose.
Approaches to teaching and learning:
The Learning Journey is supported by research-based approaches towards teaching and learning:
Further information:
If you would like any further information on the school curriculum, please let us know via the main school office on office@cobden.leics.sch.uk or on the telephone number 01509 263 485.
Cobden Primary School, Hume Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 1AF