The Greville Primary School Inspire, nurture, achieve
Our Curriculum
Curriculum Intent
Inspire, Nurture, Achieve
At The Greville, our curriculum is designed to inspire all learners within a nurturing environment, enabling every child to flourish academically, socially and personally. Our core values of respect, responsibility, resilience and kindness underpin all that we do, creating a culture of high expectations, inclusion and belonging across the school community.
Our curriculum is broad, ambitious and carefully sequenced. Curriculum content is carefully structured so that knowledge and skills build progressively from year to year, enabling pupils to develop increasing independence and confidence. It ensures that every child, regardless of starting point or need, secures strong foundational skills in reading, writing and mathematics, which provide the essential building blocks for learning across all subjects. Alongside these, children gain broad knowledge and understanding, develop key vocabulary and acquire critical thinking skills, enabling them to thrive in all areas of learning. We celebrate all learners and recognise that achievement takes many forms, nurturing individual strengths and talents. Curriculum planning is informed by national standards and educational research to ensure content is ambitious, coherent and sequenced effectively.
Reading lies at the heart of our curriculum, as it allows children to access knowledge across all subjects, build understanding and develop a lifelong love of learning. Through engaging and meaningful learning experiences alongside carefully planned enrichment, children develop curiosity about the world and grow into confident, informed global citizens.
Our aim is for children to leave The Greville equipped with secure foundational skills, broad knowledge and understanding, strong character, essential skills and the confidence to thrive in the next stage of their education and beyond.
Curriculum Implementation
Inclusive High-Quality Teaching and Foundational Skills
Learning is the core purpose of our school and is secured through consistently high-quality teaching. Foundational skills in reading, writing and mathematics are prioritised across all year groups and subjects, as these provide the gateway to wider learning and academic success.
Teachers explicitly teach and revisit key knowledge and subject-specific vocabulary, ensuring children understand, remember and can use important concepts. Daily, weekly and monthly retrieval practice helps children recall prior learning and make connections between new and existing knowledge, building a strong and lasting understanding across the curriculum.
Both substantive knowledge, the key facts, concepts and information pupils need to know, and disciplinary knowledge, how to think, question and work as a historian, scientist, geographer or mathematician, are carefully planned and sequenced. This enables children to deepen understanding over time and apply learning with increasing independence and confidence.
Scaffolding is a key feature of our teaching approach. Adults carefully structure learning through modelling, guided practice, worked examples, visual supports, sentence stems and questioning. Teaching and learning practices are grounded in research and use evidence-informed approaches such as the WalkThru strategies, ensuring that instruction is effective, consistent and purposeful. Support is gradually removed as competence increases, fostering independence and confidence. This ensures that disadvantaged pupils, children with SEND and those with additional vulnerabilities can access ambitious content while maintaining high expectations for all.
Assessment is purposeful and responsive. Teachers use ongoing formative assessment to identify misconceptions, adapt teaching and provide targeted support or challenge without creating unnecessary workload. High attainers are provided with stretch through deeper questioning, reasoning and opportunities to think critically.
Curriculum and subject leaders ensure progression is clearly mapped, foundational skills are secured, key knowledge is identified and revisited and teaching enables all pupils to succeed (where appropriate please refer to our Teaching and Learning Policy, which sets out expectations in more detail).
Global Citizens
Our curriculum broadens children’s experiences beyond their local Surrey context and prepares them for life in a diverse and interconnected world. Through subjects such as RE, history, geography, PSHE and art, children explore different cultures, beliefs and perspectives, developing respect, empathy and understanding of British Values.
We also teach children about climate change, environmental responsibility and sustainability, helping them understand their role in protecting the planet. Through Eco Council initiatives, curriculum content and practical action, pupils learn how small changes can contribute to a more sustainable future.
By engaging with global issues, diversity and environmental responsibility, children develop the knowledge, awareness and moral purpose needed to become informed and compassionate global citizens.
Values
Respect, responsibility, resilience and kindness are the values chosen by The Greville family — children, staff, parents and governors — and they are actively lived throughout school life.
- Respect is seen in active listening, valuing different opinions, celebrating diversity and caring for our environment and resources
- Responsibility is demonstrated through leadership roles such as School Council, Eco Council, Sports Crew and Wellbeing Ambassadors, as well as taking ownership of learning and behaviour
- Resilience is developed through encouraging perseverance, learning from mistakes and embracing challenge
- Kindness is shown in positive relationships, peer support, inclusive play and anti-bullying work
These values are explicitly taught, modelled by adults and reinforced through assemblies, curriculum content and daily interactions. They promote strong character, positive habits and an understanding of the fundamental British Values that underpin society.
Experiences
First-hand experiences are central to deep and meaningful learning. This includes practical activities, manipulatives in mathematics, investigations in science and technology, and the use of artefacts in history to help children secure abstract concepts and apply learning (where appropriate see Teaching and Learning Policy which sets out our expectations in more detail).
Enrichment opportunities including visits, visitors, performance experiences and themed curriculum days nurture creativity and curiosity while embedding key knowledge, vocabulary and transferable skills in memorable contexts.
Reading
Reading remains central to our curriculum. Early reading is prioritised through Read Write Inc and provides a secure phonics foundation for all children. From Years 2 to 6, Accelerated Reader and Destination Reader develop fluency, comprehension, vocabulary development and sustained reading stamina.
Our well-resourced libraries, classroom reading areas and cross-curricular reading opportunities foster a genuine love of books and ensure children read widely and often.
Positive Mindset
We maintain consistently high expectations for attitudes to learning. Children are encouraged to take risks, reflect on feedback and understand that mistakes are part of the learning process. Through teaching strategies that help children think about their learning and plan how to approach tasks, pupils develop resilience, self-belief and a can-do attitude.
Children are also supported to develop confidence through leadership opportunities, including Wellbeing Ambassadors, Sports Crew and School and Eco Council roles.
Wellbeing
Wellbeing is integral to life at The Greville. Through PSHE, pastoral care, specialist support and enrichment opportunities such as Junior Citizen, children develop awareness of their physical and mental health.
Pupils explore important themes including online safety, bullying prevention, road safety and healthy relationships. Leadership opportunities further promote wellbeing and belonging across the school community, including Wellbeing Ambassadors, Sports Crew and School and Eco Council roles.
Curriculum Impact
At The Greville, children leave with secure foundational skills in reading, writing and mathematics, and broad knowledge and understanding across the curriculum. They can recall key knowledge, use subject-specific vocabulary confidently and apply their learning independently.
Beyond academic outcomes, children leave as respectful, responsible, resilient and kind individuals. They demonstrate curiosity, creativity and critical thinking, enabling them to solve problems and contribute positively to society.
Through rich experiences, global awareness and a commitment to sustainability, our pupils develop the understanding and moral purpose required to become active, informed and compassionate citizens.
By nurturing the whole child academically, socially and emotionally, we ignite a lifelong love of learning and ensure every child leaves The Greville confident, capable and ready to thrive.