St Augustine's Catholic Primary School

At St. Augustine's, we are continually striving to provide our children with the best possible educational experiences on a daily basis.

 The most important underlying principle of a curriculum is to help children learn. We believe that a successful curriculum is brought to life by high quality teaching, inspirational learning activities and opportunities to listen and plan for the developing interests and motivations of children.

Hence we have adopted a ‘topic-based’ approach to delivering as much of the content of the National Curriculum programmes of study as possible, although certain elements (particularly in Mathematics, Literacy and Computing) are still taught separately as required.

 There are a wide variety of topics available for the teachers to choose from (see below) and this provides them with great flexibility in terms of delivering the curriculum. This also means that teachers can choose topics which they feel are best suited to their particular class.

Children have a Topic Book which they work in and this enables them to see the links/connections between various subjects and transfer their learning appropriately.

Of course, not all of the content of the National Curriculum can be delivered through this topic-based approach, but wherever it can, it is very powerful in terms of embedding the children’s learning and deepening their understanding.

Curriculum Topics

Topic Codes Used In Books