Our Curriculum

At Chartham Primary, we aim to challenge and inspire every one of our pupils to become inquisitive, autonomous learners within an inclusive, safe environment. Through a wide and varied curriculum designed in progressive steps, our children develop key skills and essential knowledge within and across all subjects, which are deepened and built upon throughout their primary schooling. 

We value the importance of a broad and balanced curriculum, and see it as vital that our children are able to gain secure foundations in and apply their continued learning from the core subjects of mathematics, reading and literacy to the wider curriculum, facilitating deep learning across all subjects. We want our children to appreciate how to create or compose like an artist, how to research like a historian, how to observe, question and analyse like a scientist, how to construct like an architect… 

At Chartham, we do not believe this level of learning can exist in the classroom alone. Our children’s learning is enriched with a wealth of additional experiences including trips, visitor talks and workshops, as well as opportunities to apply and develop their learning to meaningful, real-life contexts – including our vast school grounds.

We aim to deliver a curriculum that supports our children in developing empathy for others with an appreciation of the diversity of the world and its societies, as well as a deep interest and knowledge of their own locality.

Our curriculum supports our children in becoming resourceful, active citizens who will have the self-confidence, resilience, knowledge and skills to express ideas about, contribute to and improve the world around them.