Together We Are Greater

Templars Academy Curriculum Vision
At Templars we are committed to ensuring that every child reaches their full potential both academically and socially. We want our pupils to be to be ambitious, knowledgeable, articulate and emotionally intelligent individuals. Children will leave Templars Academy with a genuine passion for learning, strong oracy skills and a positive sense of identity. The Connected Curriculum at Templars is designed to provide a holistic approach to teaching and learning, that develops ALL pupils to be independent, active learners who acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and concepts to support the next stage of their education. The principles and themes in our curriculum will enable our children to grow up respecting, tolerating and understanding the diversity and richness that all different communities can offer to society and they are taught to do this to give them an understanding of life and the world that is broad and balanced and rich in experiences. They also need to understand how their community is part of the wider community of their town, their county, their country and their world. This curriculum is ambitious for every child because all children deserve to have an equal chance of success. At Templars we understand that our children are powerful learners, we strive to ensure that every child can make progress in their learning, through a mixture of adult direct lessons, adult initiated support and children’s play.
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum Vision
Our youngest pupils will be confident and independent learners, who will learn through play by thinking, questioning, reflecting and making links to the world they live in. In the Early Years at Templars, children will have high autonomy over their learning, whilst experiencing the structure and routines that will set them up for success in Year One and beyond. Through our connected curriculum, our young learners will take part in a range of experiences to develop their cultural capital in line with the national expectations. Positive relationships throughout Templars are the key to success, as we believe that ‘together we are greater’ and work closely with all learners within the school setting. At Templars we provide a stimulating and challenging environment to prepare and encourage them to be resilient and active learners for life.
The Early Years curriculum comprises seven areas of learning and development and these are split into the ‘Prime’ areas and ‘Specific’ areas. All areas of learning and development are important and inter- connected.
The Prime areas are:	The Specific areas are:
• Communication and Language • Personal, Social and Emotional development • Physical development	• Literacy • Mathematics • Understanding the world • Expressive Arts and Design
These three areas are particularly important for building a foundation for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, forming relationships and thriving.	These four areas are through which the prime areas are strengthened and applied
Educational Programmes
Prime areas	Specific Areas
Communication and Language	Personal, Social and Emotional	Physical	Literacy	Mathematical	Understanding the World	Expressive Art & Design
Communication and Language underpins everything we do in Early Years. We have a big focus on teaching Oracy skills as we believe that children need to be able to communicate effectively to interact positively with those around them. Through	We believe that a child’s personal, social, and emotional development is crucial for them to lead happy and healthy lives and fundamental to their cognitive development. We recognise that children need to form positive attachments and the	Children are taught the importance of taking regular physical exercise and the effect on our physical and mental well- being. They take part in regular PE lessons which include dance, gymnastics, multi skills and athletics.	We want all our children to develop a life-long love of reading. Books are an integral part of our teaching tools in Early Years and are used to enhance our curriculum, develop vocabulary and for pleasure. Adults model confident story-telling and	We believe that providing a strong grounding in number is essential so that our children develop the necessary building blocks to excel mathematically. We provide varied, frequent opportunities to sort, count, compare, calculate explore,	Children are given experiences to help develop their awareness, understanding, respect and appreciation of the world before, beyond and around them. The nature areas within our school environment will help children to discover	We believe that creative expression is a valuable tool for developing children’s confidence and individuality. We provide children with a range of resources and tools to express themselves to construct and role-play their