Harry Gosling Curriculum
Our Curriculum Vision and Intent
At Harry Gosling Primary School, our curriculum is designed to inspire, challenge, and empower every child to achieve their full potential. Rooted in the National Curriculum, our approach ensures that children develop the knowledge, skills, and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. We provide a broad, balanced, and ambitious curriculum that nurtures curiosity, fosters critical thinking, and encourages a lifelong love for learning.
At the heart of our approach is high-quality teaching and learning, underpinned by strong routines and consistency across all year groups. We believe that a well-structured, carefully sequenced curriculum—delivered through clear expectations, engaging lessons, and effective classroom practices—ensures that every child receives the best possible education. Our teachers use evidence-based strategies to build knowledge progressively, reinforce key concepts, and support all learners, including those with additional needs.
To support this, we use knowledge organisers in every year group, providing children with a clear, structured overview of key facts, vocabulary, and concepts for each unit of study. These organisers act as a valuable reference tool, helping pupils to retain and retrieve essential knowledge over time. They also support home-school collaboration, enabling parents to engage with their child's learning and reinforce key information outside the classroom. By using regular retrieval practice and spaced repetition, we ensure that knowledge is deeply embedded and built upon as children progress through the school.
Our Curriculum Maps show how learning is structured across six key strands—Identity and Belonging, Rights and Responsibilities, Changing Britain, The Wider World, Our Wonderful Planet, and Innovation and Creativity—in each year group. These themes provide a meaningful context for learning, ensuring that children develop a deep understanding of themselves, their communities, and the wider world. Through carefully planned key questions, we encourage children to explore big ideas, make connections across subjects, and apply their learning in real-world contexts.
To further support home-school collaboration, we send home half-termly Curriculum Letters, providing parents with an overview of what their child will be learning and how they can support at home. These letters, which can be accessed through the link below, ensure that families are actively engaged in their child's educational journey.
We are committed to providing a high-quality education through a well-sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum. Our teaching is underpinned by high academic standards, inclusivity, and a strong focus on personal development, ensuring that all pupils—regardless of background or starting point—are well-prepared for the next stage of their education and beyond.
Consistency in routines, expectations, and teaching methods allows children to feel secure, develop independence, and take ownership of their learning. From structured phonics sessions to mastery-led mathematics and rich discussions in reading and humanities, our approach ensures that children can build knowledge over time and apply it with confidence. Regular retrieval practice, formative assessment, and tailored support help us to ensure that every child achieves success.
At Harry Gosling, we believe that education is more than just the acquisition of knowledge; it is about developing confident, well-rounded individuals who are ready to contribute positively to society. Our curriculum reflects this by incorporating enquiry-based learning, cross-curricular links, and opportunities for pupils to develop essential life skills.
By embedding a love for learning, ambition, and resilience in every child, we ensure that they leave Harry Gosling ready to embrace the future with confidence and curiosity.
Identity and Belonging:
Within this strand, children learn about the area in which they live, places that are special to them and what it means to be part of a community.
Rights and Responsibilities:
Within this strand, the children learn that they have rights and how to exercise these rights. The children also learn that with rights, comes responsibilities. They learnt that this involves taking responsibility for themselves and their health but also other people and things around them. As part of this strand we have a whole school ‘Unity Week.’
Changing Britain
Within this strand, children develop their understanding of the history of Britain and how it has changed over time. They learn about significant events and how these events have shaped modern Britain.
The Wider World
Within this strand, the children develop their understanding of countries and cultures across the globe. Each year, the children learn about a different country or area of the world. As part of this strand we hold our annual ‘International Festival.’
Our Wonderful Planet
Within this strand, the children learn about how to look after and take responsibility for our planet. They learn about why nature is important and the impact that humans have on the environment.
Innovation and Creativity
Within this strand, the children learn about the importance of innovation and creativity in driving advancements in the modern world. This may include developments in how people live, travel and the achievements of different societies.
Please click on the overviews below to see the yearly plan for each year group.
For more information about the Harry Gosling curriculum, please contact Ashley Graham, Deputy Head Teacher.