Our Classes and Curriculum
Our children love learning and make outstanding progress while they are with us.
We are constantly striving to provide exciting and engaging learning. Working within the Big Life Schools’ curriculum, based on the the National Curriculum, whilst considering our context, community and values to equip our children to be lifelong learners.
Our teaching aims to embed the Big Life Values, which are Thoughtful, Honest, Creative, Courageous, Inspiring, and Valuing Difference. Through our values-led curriculum and our Rights Respecting Schools commitment, we promote our children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, ensuring that they grow up as reflective and responsible citizens.
Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.
– Article 29: Aims of Education
At a Big Life School we believe in 6 key pedagogical principles, which makes great teaching and learning;
- Explicit Instruction
- Modelling
- Activating prior knowledge
- Challenge
- Questioning
- Feedback & Marking
