Curriculum Overview

Our Curriculum 

At Seymour, we provide an education designed for every child to thrive and achieve, both personally and academically. Our curriculum reflects our core values: Curiosity, encouraging children to ask questions and explore the world with enthusiasm; Courage, inspiring them to set goals and challenge themselves; and Compassion, guiding them to treat themselves and others with respect, kindness, and understanding.

Learning at Seymour is structured around enquiry-based statements that spark curiosity, promote courageous decision-making, and foster compassion through collaborative learning. This approach not only prepares children for future education and the world of work but also nurtures confident problem-solvers who can think critically and act responsibly.

Our curriculum is carefully designed around subject-specific concepts that are revisited and reinforced over time, ensuring children develop a deep understanding. This enables them to build on prior knowledge and skills, progressing from novice to expert in their learning journey.

Ofsted Says

The school's curriculum thinking is highly effective. Across subjects, the order in which pupils learn important knowledge, develop skills and build vocabulary is carefully arranged. 

The curriculum is broad and balanced. 

From the early years on, the school's rich curriculum supports pupils including thoses with special educational needs and/or disabilites (SEND), to develop real understanding across subjects. 

National Curriculum

The National Curriculum (NC) provides both the content and the framework for most of what we teach at Seymour Primary School.

In the Early Years, children experience the seven areas of learning as set out by the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, which is delivered nationally.  In Key Stage One and Two, children are taught the ‘core’ subjects of English, mathematics, science and the ‘foundation’ subjects of art; computing; design and technology (DT); geography; history; modern foreign language (MFL-Spanish); music; religious education (RE) and personal, social, health, and economic education (PSHE).