St Margaret’s CE Primary School 

Our Mission

• Inspire a Love of Learning – Deliver a rich, ambitious curriculum that sparks curiosity, creativity, and resilience, nurturing a lifelong joy in learning.

• Strive for Excellence – Empower all to achieve their God-given potential through high aspirations, confidence, and a deep commitment to personal and academic growth.

• Celebrate Each Child – Support every child’s unique development—academically, personally, and spiritually—so they flourish as the person God created them to be.

• Build a Compassionate Community – Foster a respectful, loving environment shaped by Christian values, where justice, peace, and service guide our relationships and actions.

• Strengthen Partnerships in Faith – Work hand in hand with families and the church to build unity, belonging, and spiritual growth, rooted in the teachings of Jesus.

Our Curriculum Intent

At St Margaret’s CE Primary School we want our curriculum to reflect our mission – our reason for being here.

At its heart we seek a curriculum that serves the needs of the child both educationally and spiritually, a curriculum that provides deep foundations for learning and which prepares children socially and emotionally for a complex but exciting world.

We want a curriculum that is both knowledge rich, experience driven and leads to learning that equips and prepares. Children should be encouraged to think deeply and critically, follow their own interests and develop expertise in subject disciplines.

Our curriculum encourages excellence, values effort and celebrates achievement. Together, our learning is creative, enriching and relevant to today and tomorrow.

The outworking of our curriculum is simple. We want our children to be the best they can be; to reach their potential; to be true to themselves, growing in wisdom and able to make good choices now and throughout their lives. Our children respect themselves and others, are self- confident, empathetic and have inner peace and optimism for the future.

Moving forward…

At St Margaret’s we are excited by our plans for further curriculum development. This will be project-led under the titles ‘Discover’, ‘Explore’ and ‘Create’. We are reorganising our projects to allow for greater depth of learning across the school, layers of understanding, consideration of Big Ideas and opportunities for learning out of the classroom. 

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Our curriculum draws on the National Curriculum for propositional knowledge but adds to this bank where appropriate for our children. We are mapping our procedural knowledge to develop children’s skills from Reception to Year 6.

Reading is at the heart of the curriculum so that children can unlock the door to learning at an early age. We teach subjects through projects and discreetly where appropriate and continuously assess children’s learning and progress in order to tailor learning opportunities to meet their needs.