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Hotspur Entitlement
During their time at Hotspur children will have opportunities to take part in many wonderful learning experiences. This ensures that all children will have a minimum entitlement to working with artisits, singers, musicians, participating in sports, learning French, learning outside, working in the allotment and much more. Look at the Hotspur Entitlement for the full list.
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Aims of the Hotspur Curriculum
To offer a rounded, holistic education
To be underpinned by agreed values
To develop generic skills
To encourage children to question and challenge
To develop confidence and self esteem
To raise awareness of society and community and individual rights and responsibilities
To ensure academic achievement and progress in literacy and numeracy
To instil curiosity
To involve parents and carers
To utilise the rich cultural and historic environment surrounding Hotspur
To prepare Hotspur children to make valuable and effective contributions to society
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Childrens Charter for Learning
NCSL: 5th June 2008
Seventeen schools, identified as schools effectively pursuing an innovative approach to the curriculum, were invited to take ten children to NCSL to share their experience of learning and to develop a Childrens Charter for Learning that was presented to Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum at QCA, as part of the Primary Review. The views of children need to be taken into account when planning learning. The Charter is as follows:
We want to learn about real things, things which matter to us
We want to break down barriers between subjects into real live topics
We want to learn from experts who inspire us, e.g. artists, musicians, writers, mathematicians, scientists
We want to learn more about the world, world events and where we live
We want to be involved in choosing what we learn what interests and inspires us
We want more opportunities to work in teams, to learn from one another and to work with different age groups
We want more time to learn, more time to research and more time to finish
We want to learn by doing and making
We want to learn with our parents and other adults
We want to communicate our learning through the technologies we use
We want to communicate and learn with children in other countries
We want to learn more by being outside the classroom and outside school
We want to be listened to
You cant learn a single thing if you stay in your comfort zone
you have to get out of it
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Challenging False Polarities
In discussions about curriculum there is often a polarisation between different approaches eg should we teach in topics or discrete subjects? There is often talk of returning to how we used to do it. This is misleading as we want the curriculum to build on all the most effective strategies.
It is possible to have:
skills and knowledge not skills or knowledge
direct focused teaching and child led exploration
good standards of attainment and well-rounded learners
a focus on literacy and numeracy and a broad and balanced curriculum.
opportunities for the power and passion of specialist teaching and thematic teaching that makes connections between subjects
time to develop some skills regularly and often and time for deep immersive learning over extended periods of time
learning that introduces children to the big ideas and events from the past that have shaped the world and connects learning to the contemporary issues of our times, such as sustainability
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Core Values
We hope that by focussing on the core values children at Hotspur will be given the opportunity to understand and become:
Principled
Honest
Generous
Creative
Inclusive
Industrious
Respectful
Individual
Courageous
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