Our Curriculum Offer
OUR CURRICULUM
Our curriculum, designed by our curriculum leads and subject specialists, maps out the progression of both substantive and disciplinary knowledge across Key Stage One and Key Stage Two for Reading, Writing, Maths, Science, Computing and Foundation Subjects. Constructed to be sequential, our curriculum provides opportunities for knowledge to build on prior learning and to be revisited in subsequent years across different subjects. This enables knowledge to be deepened and mastered over time.
We purposefully design our curriculum to narrow the gap for children who are disadvantaged, setting out purposefully sequenced knowledge, vocabulary and skills for each subject and each year group so that children know more and remember more over time. Key foundational knowledge such as phonics, handwriting and number sense are taught systematically in the Early Years and throughout Year 1.
To support children in keeping up from the start and closing any learning gaps swiftly, we employ targeted intervention sessions, ensuring all children possess the key knowledge they need to access the wider curriculum.
At IKB, our curriculum is ambitious, designed to ensure deep knowledge and memory of key concepts. We support this through meaningful connections within and across subject domains. By applying learned knowledge to solve problems and answer significant questions, children learn to confidently tackle increasingly challenging issues, knowing and remembering more over time.
Our curriculum aims to cultivate confident, independent and inquisitive learners, with a comprehensive understanding of the world—past, present, and future. It is crafted to reflect our core values: every child achieves, every child belongs, and every child participates, ensuring that all students are successful learners.
At IKB, we believe in the strength of the triangulation between school, home, and every child. Involving parents, carers, and families in the learning of their children positively impacts the strength of learning for all children.
Before the beginning of each new term and topic, class teachers create and send home knowledge organisers and class newsletters to update parents and carers on the upcoming learning content and curriculum events. Knowledge organisers provide topic content, key vocabulary, questions, and images that the children will be learning about, while class newsletters provide important dates and key information for the term.
