Curriculum aims

At Adelaide Primary School, our vision is to ensure every child is inspired, nurtured, and empowered to reach their full potential. We are a welcoming and inclusive school community where diversity is celebrated, individuality is valued and everyone is respected and supported to succeed.

We are committed to developing the whole child. Alongside high academic expectations, we place personal development at the heart of everything we do, enabling pupils to grow into confident, resilient and responsible individuals. Through rich learning experiences, strong relationships, and high-quality teaching, we promote pupils’ physical, emotional, social, and moral development, preparing them to thrive in modern Britain.

Our curriculum encourages curiosity, creativity, and ambition, while teaching pupils the importance of kindness, equality, and respect for others. We actively promote fundamental British values and protective characteristics which help our children understand their role in an ever-changing and culturally diverse world.

Working in strong partnership with families and the wider community, Adelaide Primary School strives to create lifelong learners who believe in themselves, contribute positively to society, and are ready for the next stage of their education and beyond.

If parents/carers would like to find out more information on the curriculum we offer at Adelaide, please contact the school office.

Curriculum plans:

At Adelaide Primary School, our curriculum is carefully designed to meet the aims and expectations of the National Curriculum while supporting children to know more and remember more over time. We embed regular retrieval practice, informed by Willingham’s model of learning, to strengthen schema development and enable knowledge and skills to move securely from working memory into long‑term memory. This approach ensures clear progression, coherence and depth of understanding for all pupils.

‘Teaching and learning are consistently good. As a result most pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics from often significantly below-average starting points’…

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‘The highly successful promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is at the heart of the school’s work’…

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‘Pupils feel very safe in school because of the school’s rigorous approach to keeping them safe’…

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‘The harmonious relationships among all groups, from a wide variety of backgrounds, are a strength of the school’…

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‘There is a very strong focus on checking on how well different groups of pupils are learning, so that any falling behind can be immediately helped to make better progress’…

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‘The excellent relationships between teachers and their pupils ensure lessons are purposeful and enjoyable’…

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‘Parents are overwhelmingly supportive, commenting very positively on the school’s many strong features’…

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‘Pupils contribute significantly to the successes of the school through their outstanding behaviour and readiness to learn’…

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‘Leaders leave no stone unturned to ensure that the very diverse school population is treated equally and that there is a relentless focus on driving up pupil performance’…

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‘Children make a good start in the early years because of good teaching’…

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‘Staff morale is high, team spirit is very strong, and all are committed to continued improvement. This helps to explain why the school is continuing to improve’…

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‘The range of enrichment activities the school provides is excellent and contributes a great deal to pupils’ learning’…

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