Learning & Our School Curriculum

Everything we do and all the activities and experiences that our pupils undertake, in total, is called our curriculum. We know that we're preparing children for an ever-changing tomorrow, so we have to constantly review and tweak WHAT and HOW we are teaching them.

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It's right that because no two schools are the same (and because every child has their own unique needs and aspirations), no two schools have the same curriculum. In September 2022 a new statutory framework for learning in Wales gave each school express permission to design a bespoke curriculum for the needs of their pupils and the context of their school setting. At last central decision makers agreed that there was less value in having a top-down, one size fits all, prescribed 'national' curriculum and much more benefit for learners in each school learning common skills and knowledge through localised experiences and contexts which were meaningful to them, their lives and communities.

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This framework, for the first time, has a guiding 'purpose' - in fact there are now four purposes and these drive all learning & teaching. WHAT children learn will change from school to school but will consist of six Areas of Learning and Experience (AoLEs) as well as the cross-curricular themes of literacy, numeracy and digital competency and other cross cutting themes.​