At Ladybrook we are passionate about providing a curriculum that builds the strong foundations of positive learning habits with our children from Nursery onwards and that will stay with them for life!  This can only happen where relationships are effective. Our Teaching and Learning Policy, developed collaboratively by our staff in line with our shared vision and values as a community, reflects our ‘non-negotiable’  offer to young learners. Our curriculum begins with the child and their individual needs as a learner and incorporates the requirements of the National Curriculum as well as the Early Years’ Foundation Stage Framework for our youngest children.

Our curriculum intent goes well beyond the National Curriculum subjects to provide a rich and purposeful primary learning journey. In addition, as an inclusive school where belonging really matters to us, we work hard to ensure that children with disabilities are able to access as much of the school curriculum as possible. Please see our Accessibility Plan for more information.

From Intention to Implementation

Below is our model for learning. It describes our whole school intention for a child's learning journey. Starting at the foundation, follow the arrow up from our beliefs to pupil entitlement to curriculum structure through to how we implement our intentions for learners.

Below you can find our individual subject rationales. The subject rationales provide a rich overview of our approach to constructing individual subject programmes of study for Ladybrook pupils. Each one details why and how we do what we do at Ladybrook to reach the standards that we achieve in each subject. Subject leaders have created these rationales in collaboration with the teaching team. The detailed curriculum documents which are used within school such as progressions and sequences of learning are highlighted in this document as 'snap shots'.

Each rationale contains the following:

• 'Big picture' - vision statement for the subject
• Renewal process
• Key policy decisions
• Progression document
• Sequence of learning for the subject - snapshots
• Inclusion approach for the subject - snapshots

You may also be interested to know that at Ladybrook we teach reading from Nursery onwards, using The Oxford Reading Tree as our main trunk scheme alongside other reading sources for breadth and consolidation. 

Effective readers use a range of strategies to decode words, often including phonic skills. We use a synthetic phonic scheme called ‘Read Write Inc’.

If you have any questions regarding the curriculum we teach, please contact the school directly.