The children are at the centre of everything we do at Chandlers Field. 

Our curriculum is built on strong pedagogical principles, with every child encouraged to meet and achieve their potential. We make it our aim to discover what children are good at and use this to promote a positive attitude to learning. 

The curriculum was extensively reviewed in September 2023 to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of our children.  Our curriculum is built on the key principles of foundational knowledge, progression, and cognitive load, with the overarching intention that our children know more and remember more.   We have a clear understanding of outcomes at the end of each key stage, and at the end of each academic year, to ensure that our curriculum and planning develops the children’s progression towards these outcomes.   

We have implemented Sounds Write, Talk for Writing and Maths No Problem across the school, and our end of Key Stage outcomes clearly demonstrate the positive impact these schemes have had on the children’s development of skills and knowledge. 

We follow the Kapow scheme for science, art, DT, music, computing, RE and PSHE.  Our history and geography schemes are home grown and based on the National Curriculum. Through these schemes we ensure that the children develop their enquiry skills by providing opportunities for fieldwork in geography, and by enhancing their understanding of chronology and the wider context in history. 

Our extensive school grounds enable us to deliver a rich curriculum of physical education promoting physical and mental wellbeing. The daily mile and skipping provide physical challenges and at break times the children have access to an outdoor gym, trim trail, ball zones as well as table tennis. Our Forest School is delivered alongside the curriculum, and develops children’s speaking and listening skills, scientific knowledge, and creative skills, in an outdoor learning environment. 

Wider enrichment opportunities are experienced through external trips, internal visitors to the school, art week, and national initiatives such as British Values Day and Safer Internet Day.   

We take safeguarding extremely seriously and opportunities to teach our children how to keep themselves safe are weaved throughout the curriculum.  We teach our children about safeguarding through particular topics in our PSHE and computing curricula, but also ensure that wider safety such as water and road safety are taught via assemblies and external visitors.  

Our curriculum is about achievement, enjoyment and enrichment, while meeting all the standards of the National Curriculum. 

For further information on the curriculum please speak with your child's class teacher.