Click the document to view our whole school curriculum plan.
We devise our own curriculum that ensures all children not only meet all of the expected coverage as outlined in the National Curriculum, but have access to a much wider curriculum that is tailored to their needs, our locality and is designed to give them unique opportunities, inspiring them to go 'beyond the curriculum' and be highly ambitious.
With mixed-age year groups, curriculum design can be challenging; however, we are passionate and proud of the curriculum we offer at St Buryan Academy, which you can view below.
Our curriculum is driven by high quality texts, each learning context (or topic) has carefully selected texts to supplement learning. Every term children explore a new learning context, which is inspired by an essential question that guides children's own lines of enquiry.
Our 'essential texts' support and inspire learning. On our curriculum overview, you can see what texts children will be covering to deepen their knowledge and understanding of each termly learning context.
Foundation Subject Coverage
Below you can find the subject coverage for our foundation subjects and progression through the school.
Science Coverage
Here you can see what is taught in each year group at St Buryan Academy and how the teaching and learning in science progresses through the school.
Phonics and Early Reading Information
At St Buryan Primary School we use the DfE accredited scheme, PhonicsBug, to support our Phonics teaching and learning.
As you can see from our curriculum, reading is at the core of our learning and is taught from the children entering in EYFS, or nursery, throughout their primary education journey.
We begin by teaching phonics through, BugClub where children learn to read supported through specific phonics teaching and the accompanying reading scheme to build the early foundations and confidence to be readers for life. Throughout their time on the reading scheme, the children can progress through our reading programme by regularly reading at home.
English Coverage
Each document will tell you what is taught within English at each year group and how this progresses throughout the school.
Forest School
Mrs Wilson and Mrs Rendle are our Forest School leaders; they're well qualified in Forest School and are both passionate about ensuring all of our children have high quality forest school opportunities throughout the year and learn new skills that they can apply to their learning and life in general - as well as learn lots about themselves, each other and nature.
Over lockdown during COVID 19 we began to bring our Forest School on-site and started to develop our own garden and forest school area: Anita's Garden.
Here you can find a fire pit, pond, our own mini-Minack amphitheatre, vegetable patches, mini-wildflower meadow and a variety of trees being grown. We have developed it all ourselves with the help of our children, so it is a real legacy project for them.
Every class carries out Forest School sessions for half a term each on rotation and at the end of the year we group our children in their house teams so they can experience Forest School with children in different classes throughout the school.
Our Forest School progression can be found below, however these sessions are child-led and often fluid in choice or can change to suit the needs of the children.
Music Development Plan
Right to withdraw from Religious Education (RE)
In England, parents and carers have the right to withdraw their children from Religious Education. This right of withdrawal exists for all pupils in all types of schools. Parents and carers also have the right to withdraw their child from part of RE and can do so without giving any explanation.
Religion and belief have become more visible in public life in recent years, making it important that all pupils should have an opportunity to engage in RE. However, the parent of a pupil may request that they be excused from all or part of the religious education (RE) provided.
Parents who wish to withdraw their children from RE should be aware of its aims and what is covered in the RE curriculum and that they are given the opportunity to discuss this if they wish. It should be made clear whether the withdrawal is from the whole RE curriculum or specific parts of it. No reasons need be given.
If you wish to withdraw your child from RE, or parts of RE, please contact our Head of School, Joshua McDonald.
Important – limitations to withdraw
If pupils are withdrawn from RE, schools have a duty to supervise them, though not to provide additional teaching. A pupil may be required to work in another area of the school, such as library or break out area.
Whilst parents or carers have a right to withdraw children from RE, they should note that children may also encounter religions and beliefs and wider aspects of faith in other areas of the curriculum from which there is no right of withdrawal.
On occasion, spontaneous questions about religious matters are raised by pupils or issues related to religion arise in other curriculum subjects such as history or citizenship (PSHE) For example, schools promote community cohesion and help pupils to understand ideas about identity and diversity, feelings and emotions within both religious and non-religious contexts.