In Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, we strive to enhance learners' experiences and equip our children with fundamental skills for learning, life and work.
Our curriculum provides children with a range of skills as well as knowledge and understanding of specific subjects:
Health and Wellbeing: Learning in Health and Wellbeing ensures that children and young people develop the knowledge, understanding and skills which they need now and, in the future, to help them with their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.
Languages: Knowing other languages and understanding other cultures is a 21st century skill-set for learners as they prepare to live and work in a global society.
Numeracy & Mathematics: Numeracy & Mathematics equips us with the skills we need to interpret and analyse information, simplify and solve problems, assess risk and make informed decisions.
Expressive Arts: The inspiration and power of the arts play a vital role in enabling our children and young people to enhance their creative talent and develop their artistic skills.
Science: Science and its practical application in healthcare and industry is central to our economic future, for our health and wellbeing as individuals and as a society.
Social Studies: Through Social Studies, children and young people develop their understanding of the world by learning about other people and places both past and present, societies, their beliefs and values.
Religious and Moral Education: Religious and Moral Education includes learning about Christianity, Islam and other world religions, and supports the development of beliefs and values.
Technologies: The range of subjects in Technical Education has changed significantly over the last two decades and now includes craft, design, engineering and graphics.
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Within Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, learners study these subjects within a curriculum based on clear principles. Those principles ensure:
breadth
balance
relevance
continuity and progression
provision for the individual
active involvement of children and their parents/carers
multi-cultural and anti-racist education
equality of opportunity
These Principles must be considered for all children and young people.
They apply to the curriculum both at an organisational level, in the classroom and in any setting where children and young people are learners.
The principles will assist teachers and schools in their practice and as a basis for continuing review, evaluation and improvement. They apply to the curriculum at national, education authority, school and individual levels, and must be considered for all children and young people
Although all should apply at any one stage, the principles will have different emphases as a child or young person learns and develops.
Challenge and enjoyment
Children and young people should find their learning challenging, engaging and motivating. The curriculum should encourage high aspirations and ambitions for all.
At all stages, learners of all aptitudes and abilities should experience an appropriate level of challenge, to enable each individual to achieve his or her potential. They should be active in their learning and have opportunities to develop and demonstrate their creativity. There should be support to enable children and young people to sustain their effort.
Breadth
All children and young people should have opportunities for a broad, suitably weighted range of experiences. The curriculum should be organised so that they will learn and develop through a variety of contexts within both the classroom and other aspects of school life.
Progression
Children and young people should experience continuous progression in their learning from 3 to 18 within a single curriculum framework.
Each stage should build upon earlier knowledge and achievements. Children should be able to progress at a rate which meets their needs and aptitudes, and keep options open so that routes are not closed off too early.
Progression in the experiences and outcomes
Depth
There should be opportunities for children to develop their full capacity for different types of thinking and learning. As they progress, they should develop and apply increasing intellectual rigour, drawing different strands of learning together, and exploring and achieving more advanced levels of understanding.
Personalisation and choice
The curriculum should respond to individual needs and support particular aptitudes and talents. It should give each child and young person increasing opportunities for exercising responsible personal choice as they move through their school career.
Once they have achieved suitable levels of attainment across a wide range of areas of learning, the choice should become as open as possible. There should be safeguards to ensure that choices are soundly based and lead to successful outcomes.
Coherence
Taken as a whole, children and young people's learning activities should combine to form a coherent experience. There should be clear links between the different aspects of children and young people's learning, including opportunities for extended activities which draw different strands of learning together.
Relevance
Children and young people should understand the purposes of their activities. They should see the value of what they are learning and its relevance to their lives, present and future.
Lourdes Primary School150 Berryknowes RoadGlasgowG52 2DEPhone: 0141 882 2305Fax: 0141 891 5926