Our Curriculum

Nursery & Reception

The education provided in Nursery and Reception is a practical and oral curriculum taught through a range of exciting and stimulating topics. We encourage children to develop the following Learning Attitudes: concentration, communication and collaboration, independence, imagination, empathy, perseverance, curiosity and risk taking.

The curriculum is primarily delivered by the Nursery and Reception team led by form teachers. In addition, boys benefit from dedicated Music, French and PE lessons delivered by specialist teachers from across the Prep.

Our ’Reading at Home’ programme begins in Reception and continues into Year 1 and beyond, nurturing a love of reading from the earliest possible stage.

Years 1 & 2

The curriculum in Years 1 and 2 (Key Stage 1) is taught through topics that incorporate elements of all subjects in a contextual and meaningful way. We aim to extend topics in response to the children’s interests, foster their curiosity, and excite their imagination. Our priority remains to lay firm foundations and to establish good learning habits.

Homework is set on Seesaw, a third-party digital learning app. We set regular homework in English and Maths, and we occasionally send additional work with individual children where we feel this would help reinforce a particular skill or concept.

Years 3 & 4

Boys begin our full 14-subject curriculum in Year 3, designed to provide depth, breadth and balance. Form teachers deliver English, Mathematics and Philosophy for Children; the core Year 3 and 4 team also teaches Religious Studies and Wellbeing, while the Year 3 team delivers Geography. Other subjects are taught by specialist subject teachers.

Pupils receive homework in English, Mathematics and one other subject each week, set on Seesaw. They are also encouraged to continue to read every night.

The core academic subjects are examined annually in the Summer Term.

Years 5-8

From Year 5 onwards, pupils continue to study our full curriculum. At this stage, all lessons are taught exclusively by subject specialists. The pastoral curriculum, such as Philosophy for Children and aspects of PSHE including Citizenship, are delivered through their tutor groups, which are ‘vertical’ meaning they consist of a few boys from each year group. This means topics can be discussed and explored from a variety of angles and can be contextualised for the differing ages in the group.

Boys receive one academic homework a day. It is set on Microsoft Teams, which is part of the Office 365 suite to which they all have access. At this point, they are expected to engage in extra-curricular enrichment activities, both inside and outside school, which is monitored by their form tutors.

The core academic subjects are examined annually in the Summer Term, and there are earlier formal assessments in English and Mathematics.

Nursery & Reception

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Years 1 & 2

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Years 3 & 4

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Years 5-8

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Early Years

Outdoor Education

Our Core Values