Curriculum

Our Holistic Education Offer

At Mepal & Witcham CofE Primary School, our Holistic Education Offer reflects our unwavering commitment to our two central strands: Personal Development and Scholarship. All subjects are designed to be bespoke, ambitious, and innovative, ensuring pupils acquire the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in every area of learning. This ensures that every child is not only academically successful but also personally nurtured to achieve their fullest potential.


Personal Development

Personal development is central to our ethos and is supported by a dedicated Personal Development Curriculum. This curriculum spans every aspect of our educational offer, ensuring that the development of character, well-being, and essential life skills is fully integrated into the life of the school. Through this approach, we ensure that all children are given the opportunity to thrive, have their individual talents nurtured, and grow into well-rounded, confident individuals prepared for life beyond the classroom. We place a significant importance on developing pupils spirituality and have dedicated time for reflection and discussion about things & beings beyonds ourselves.


Scholarship

Our approach to scholarship is equally robust and is realised through meticulously designed individual curriculum maps. These maps are knowledge-rich, aligned with the National Curriculum, and ambitious, ensuring that all children, regardless of background or ability, are supported to achieve. Each subject is planned and sequenced to build progressively on the disciplinary, declarative/ substantive, and procedural knowledge essential to mastery, with key strands acting as threads that connect learning across year groups. This ensures that pupils know more, can do more, and remember more as they progress.


Curriculum Design

The curriculum at Mepal & Witcham is the product of careful design between curriculum leaders within the school, Trust and external experts e.g. PKC curriculum, and is informed by educational research and the latest OFSTED subject reviews. It reflects the unique needs of our pupils and locality, ensuring every child has access to a coherent and logical sequence of knowledge and skills. Every subject is underpinned by thoughtfully mapped-out concepts and strands, ensuring learning is deeply rooted and continually built upon over time.


Enhancing the Learning Experience

We place strong emphasis on providing experiential learning opportunities. Educational trips, visits from experts, and immersive experiences are embedded into our curriculum to bring subjects to life. Additionally, our school environment plays a vital role in supporting learning, with communal spaces purposefully transformed into stimulating areas that enhance teaching and engagement.


Teaching Excellence

Guided by our pedagogical principles, our teachers benefit from a robust, well-sequenced curriculum that empowers them to deliver high-quality lessons. These lessons are designed to inspire, challenge, and equip pupils with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed.


At Mepal & Witcham, we hold an equal value for all subjects, reflecting our belief that a truly holistic education nurtures every child’s personal and academic development. By intertwining personal development and scholarship, we provide an educational experience that inspires success and fosters a love of learning for life.

Curriculums that forms our Whole Education Offer

  • Personal Development Curriculum
  • Behaviour Curriculum
  • Subject-specific curriculums
  • Subject

In the Foundation Stage, the children learn through the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum where the focus is on learning through play. When staff judge children to be ready they begin working on the National Curriculum. At Mepal & Witcham CofE Primary School, we cover all aspects of the National Curriculum to enhance the learning experiences of the children.


Through the Foundation Stage, aspects of skills and knowledge from the National Curriculum are introduced in order to provide progression for the children.


The National Curriculum sets out what children should know, understand and do in each year group in the following subjects: English, Maths, Science, Computing, Design and Technology, History, Geography, Music, Art and Design, Physical Education, Personal, Social and Health Education. We follow a local Cambridgeshire syllabus to teach Religious Education.


Our Curriculum is more than the National Curriculum and is designed to develop subject knowledge skills and understanding and develop key social and learning skills.


We plan topics and themes which will engage children and make learning meaningful, utilsing outdoor learning where possible e.g. Forest School, to deepen the impact. These themes draw together different parts of the National Curriculum. The school also follows E4L to support pupils’ social and emotional well-being.

At the beginning of each half term, teachers provide a curriculum map for the forthcoming term to all children and their parents which is sent out electronically or on paper as required.


These maps give details of what the class will be learning throughout the term in all subjects.