A child is not a vessel to be filled but a lamp to be lit.' Hebrew Proverb

All children at Kingston Park Primary School receive a relevant, stimulating, balanced curriculum, which, where appropriate, is carefully scaffolded or adapted to meet each individual child’s needs. It embraces equality, diversity and inclusion. Although each subject is taught and referred to discretely, each term, every year group starts a new topic theme to provide additional context and stimulus for our children, making links to our local area when and where appropriate (see 'Curriculum Overview').

Marvellous Me

During September, all children study a separate area of study linked to PSHE. This is our 'Marvellous Me' topic (see 'Marvellous Me Whole School Overview').

Inspiration Days

We believe that the curriculum should be as exciting and stimulating as possible so each new topic is introduced with an 'Inspiration Day' to provide a memorable learning experience.

Enrichment Weeks

To further enhance our curriculum offer, we provide two separate enrichment weeks. Both are themed around personal development and our Golden Threads. The first, in January, focuses upon self-reflection, values and goals. The second, in July, has Careers and Enterprise as the main focus.

Commando Joe's

We use Commando Joe's to supplement our curriculum offer still further. These are a series of themed missions for children to display their skills, creativity and teamwork to solve a number of problems centred around the idea of RESPECT. We teach these discretely three times throughout the year during the Marvellous Me Topic and both Enrichment Weeks. For further information around Commando Joe's, please visit their website commandojoes.co.uk

Personal Development

At Kingston Park, we are proud that our children have the opportunity to enhance their personal development through achieving one or more of our phased KPPS Enrichment Awards (see below). Each phased award contains a series of 20 personal development related activities designed to be completed at school or home for children to complete in order to attain their bespoke certificate and badge. Introduced in 2024 via a video address from our patron of the award, Paralympian rower Grace Clough MBE. 

Know More, Do More, Remember More

It is important that our children retain and remember the curriculum content rather than simply their memorable learning experiences. Therefore, we promote a love of learning by encouraging oracy and metacognition whilst regularly returning to prior learning to ensure the children are able to make connections with and between their previous and new learning, resulting in our children being able to know more, do more and remember more.

Quality First Teaching

All our children are taught in mixed ability classes. The children are taught as a whole class but may also work with adults in smaller groups or individually. Teachers utilise a range of teaching approaches so that all children are actively involved and challenged to be the best they can be in every lesson.

Foundation Stage

Excuse the mess..... the children are making learning memories

Children in Nursery and Reception class follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. This comprises of seven key areas of learning and development which are:

The prime areas of learning ~ Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The specific areas of learning ~ Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design

Key Stages 1 & 2

Children in Years 1 to 6 (Key Stages 1 & 2) follow the subjects of the National Curriculum. The revised National Curriculum came into place in September 2014. We revised and updated our schemes of work in line with the new curriculum and are continually analysing our curriculum offer to ensure marginal gains.

All National Curriculum subjects, in accordance with the Education Reform Act, are taught at all levels. This includes a daily English and Mathematics lesson.

Core subjects ~ English, Mathematics and Science

Foundation subjects ~ Art & Design, Computing (ICT), Design & Technology, Modern Foreign Language (Spanish in Years 3 to 6 only), Geography, History, Music, PE, Personal Social & Health Education (PSHE), RE

Cross-Curricular subjects ~ Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), RSE (Relationship & Sex Education), SMSC (Social, Moral, Spiritual, Cultural), Careers & Enterprise, Citizenship, Personal Development

To read more about each curriculum subject please click on the appropriate subject section.

Find out more about our Curriculum in this presentation...

Look at our Curriculum Plan to see a whole school overview

Look what we are learning in our first whole school topic about Marvellous Me ......

Look what we are learning in the Autumn Term...

Look what we are learning in the Spring Term...

Look what we are learning in the Summer Term...