Curriculum Overview

We believe that pupils need to understand the immense power of good communication skills in preparing them for the future, helping them build positive relationships and providing them with tools to succeed. As such, we have identified developing excellent communication skills as a priority for equipping our pupils for the future.

We want our pupils to use language that is appropriate to their audience as a means of increasing confidence, encouraging and supporting each other through both verbal and non-verbal communication as part of our strong sporting culture.

As a school that predominantly represents a white British demographic, with limited exposure to, and little personal experience of other groups, we want to teach our pupils to fully appreciate and embrace cultural diversity, learning about and experiencing a range of different cultural and faith heritages found in wider society.

We want them to value diversity, understand the roots and importance of cultural heritage and to behave in a respectful and tolerant way towards others, regardless of faith, ethnicity, or background. We actively and explicitly promote cross-cultural friendship, respect, tolerance and understanding through ‘Learning Means the World’.

We believe that a range of skills should be taught throughout the curriculum in order to build up resilience and helping pupils cope in a range of difficult situations is part of this process. An understanding of responsible, respectful behaviour is an important aspect of learning. With a focus on restorative conversations, we believe conflict is a highly relevant focus for our curriculum. Having a developed understanding of sources of conflict and the importance of seeing things from others’ points of view, we believe, will make a difference to their own choices as they learn more about conflict resolution.

We can’t ignore conservation. It is so current that we believe it is essential to teach our pupils about sustainability as part of becoming a responsible citizen. We need them to recognise that this is about helping future generations, not just themselves. They need to be well-equipped to contribute to conservation work, realising what impact their own behaviour has on the environment. Badby has a ‘Green Tree Award’ and we plan to invest in developing this in our grounds by planting more. We especially want them to develop a compassionate and caring attitude to the natural world, learning how to interact sensitively with wildlife. We are particularly excited to be getting some beehives!