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Curriculum Intent

At Bedford Drive Primary, offer an exciting curriculum, which has been designed to engage all of our children and help them to develop a love of learning and promote curiosity. We are ambitious and inclusive, ensuring that every child, regardless of background, prior experience or additional need, can access, succeed.

As well as building secure academic knowledge and skills, we want our pupils to develop holistically during their time at Bedford Drive. Our 12 school values are deeply embedded across school life and we provide a wide range of opportunities for pupils wider personal development.

We have an emphasis on oracy skills so pupils can listen attentively, use precise vocabulary and articulate their ideas and opinions clearly. We intend for pupils to be highly engaged in their learning - taking part in discussion, performance and reflection. We want children to develop the confidence to explain their thinking and respond respectfully to the views of others.

Curriculum Implementation

We follow the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum and deliver these through a carefully sequenced curriculum.

Our teaching is underpinned by our Curriculum-Wide Pedagogy, based on the WalkThrus framework and the ‘Bedford Big Three’: The Learning Model, Positive Relationships, Make Everyone Think. For more information. See our Teaching and Learning Page.

Teaching staff activate prior knowledge, teach in small steps, model their thinking and use retrieval practice so that learning is securely stored in long term memory. Pupils are constantly required to think, rehearse, explain and perform — ensuring that learning is active, meaningful and deeply embedded.

Oracy is explicitly built into our teaching, helping pupils think deeply about their learning, while developing their communication skills.

Every pupil is supported to succeed through ordinarily available inclusive provision. Our approach is inclusive and responsive to pupils’ needs. Learning is adapted through strategies such as modelling, chunked instructions, scaffolded composition tasks and opportunities to rehearse learning verbally and practically. Where appropriate, pupils use alternative instruments or technological tools to support participation. Disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND are actively encouraged to take part in enrichment and performance opportunities so that they develop confidence, aspiration and a strong sense of achievement. 

Curriculum Impact

The impact of our curriculum is that pupils leave Bedford Drive as confident, articulate and knowledgeable. They enjoy learning and understand its value. Pupils have the knowledge they need to take advantage of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences in later life.

Ultimately, our curriculum inspires pupils to love and value learning, helps them believe in their own abilities and enables them to succeed as creative, confident and expressive learners — ready for the next stage of their education and life beyond school.