Educating the whole child, achieved through an inclusive and supportive ethos, with kindness and community at the heart of our provision.
Our Curriculum - The Barley Hill Way
At Barley Hill Primary School, our firmly-held belief of ‘educating the whole child’ underpins every aspect of our carefully designed curriculum, which inspires, excites and enthuses our life-long learners. We have a caring, supportive and inclusive learning environment where every child is valued as a learner and citizen.
Our ambitious, broad and rich first-hand curriculum, captures the imagination of the children, enabling them to be creative, critical thinkers. The varied, stimulating opportunities and skills based lessons enable the children to connect and build their knowledge over time across all subjects, ensuring challenge for all and that each child is ready for the next stage of their learning.
See below our long-term curriculum overview for all subjects from EYFS to Year 6 which has been crafted carefully using a combination of highly specialised schemes and also our own curriculum that focuses on a progression of skills and knowledge through their time at Barley Hill that will set them up to not just gain required skills and knowledge but to more importantly set them up for their next steps in education and be successful in the real world.
Our curriculum is diverse and culturally enriching which reflects our children being an important part of our local community as well as responsible global citizens. We embrace our diversity and celebrate our unity as a caring community through a curriculum which is broad and engaging.
Our Values-based PSHE encourages children to take responsibility within the school, to value teamwork and to treat one another and all members of the school community with care, respect and tolerance. Through Building Learning Power (BLP), children develop resilience, seeing mistakes as a learning opportunity, becoming reflective on their own efforts. They take pride in their own achievements and those of others.
Our children are proud to be part of Barley Hill Primary School and the Thame community; they leave as happy, confident individuals with the skills they need to tackle and relish the challenges of lifelong learning.
Specialised Schemes of Work used at
Barley Hill Primary School
Maths & Science
Reading
History, Geography, Art, DT & Music
Phonics
PSHE
Religious Education
French
PE
Computing
