Curriculum Progression
To find out more about our curriculum, please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Please see a DfE link to the National Curriculum here.
Ashperton Primary Academy is committed to ensuring that every child becomes a life-long, ambitious learner with the curiosity, resilience and confidence to face future challenges. The school aims to provide pupils with the skills, knowledge and experiences needed for their life journey, while also supporting them to become mentally and physically confident individuals who can build positive relationships with both peers and adults. Kindness, honesty and respect are central to the school’s ethos, alongside the active promotion of fundamental British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance for others.
The curriculum at Ashperton is underpinned by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which shape the school’s culture, curriculum intent and teaching approaches. This focus encourages both staff and pupils to think about social action and how learning can contribute to creating a better future for all.
The school uses a combination of established schemes such as Kapow, White Rose, NCETM, Grammarsaurus and Supersonic Phonic Friends, alongside carefully designed in-house curriculum progression documents, to ensure full coverage and progression from EYFS through to Year 6. Subjects are planned with clear progression in skills, knowledge and vocabulary, with some areas taught through a topic-based approach to create meaningful cross-curricular links. Staff provide clear explanations, strong subject knowledge and explicit teaching of vocabulary to ensure children build secure understanding over time. In EYFS, children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, with all of our curriculum progression documents providing strong foundations from EYFS and for future learning.
Ashperton places a strong emphasis on providing a broad, balanced, creative and highly engaging curriculum where all children have fair access to rich learning opportunities. Retrieval practice and revisiting prior learning help to embed knowledge into long-term memory. Recognising that not all children have equal access to experiences outside of school, Ashperton enhances learning through Forest School for every year group, specialist sports coaching, music lessons, swimming, educational visits, residential trips, performance opportunities, visiting speakers, and access to carefully selected resources and rich texts. The school also makes excellent use of its beautiful grounds, including a seven-acre field, and offers a wide range of extracurricular opportunities. Pupils benefit from strong international links with a partner school in Tanzania, where shared Sustainable Development Goal projects help broaden global understanding and citizenship.
Behaviours and Values to help our Learning
We facilitate our high levels of learning by fostering values of ambition, tolerance, respect, gratitude, perseverance, responsibility, caring, honesty, positivity, co-operation and happiness. We expect high levels of behaviour at APA and the values support us in reinforcing this. The values are also explored further in assemblies and through incidental opportunities. The School Council, consisting of pupils elected from each class, provides a forum for pupils to contribute to the decision making process in the school.
Aspects of PSHE and religious education, within the curriculum, provide pupils with opportunities to develop morally in a supportive atmosphere. Spiritual and moral themes are also explored in regular whole school and class assemblies. We teach our children to understand and respect all faiths and communities and appreciate that people live their life differently which aims to prepare them for life in Modern Britain. Within SMSC, we promote the fundamental “British Values” through class and whole school assemblies, school values, religious education, School Council, PSHE and through our Learning Journey.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Zero Waste Project and out links with Karangai
