At. St. Leonard's Primary School, our curriculum is fully inclusive, diverse, aspirational and exciting; it promotes a love of learning and ignites curiosity in each individual. Our curriculum is based on developing knowledge and skills in conjunction with one another. We ensure that children's knowledge develops and progresses through their primary years as well as developing and embedding their skills within these subjects and revisiting these skills so they can be further embedded and applied. 

We follow the National Curriculum framework for KS1 and KS2 and the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation in conjunction with our Early Years Curriculum which has been written by our Early Years Lead. Children are taught objectives from the National Curriculum through exciting and inspirational learning experiences, ensuring that each individual in our setting becomes a life-long learner. Underpinning each framework are our curriculum overviews for each subject, which detail what is being taught in each subject for each year group. 

Maths and English are core subjects of the National Curriculum and are taught daily in each year group, alongside Phonics and Reading. Reading is at the heart of our curriculum and is embedded in every subject that we teach in some capacity. Challenging, engaging and stimulating texts are a driver to develop children's reading and comprehension skills and passion for the subject of reading. Further information about these core subjects can be found on our English and Maths pages. 

Here at St Leonard's, we provide a broad and balanced curriculum based around the Cornerstones Curriculum, a nationally recognised approach for delivering outstanding learning opportunities for children. 

The Cornerstones Curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to
the 2014 primary National Curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations.
It is based on a child-centred pedagogy called The Four Cornerstones and is delivered through
Knowledge Rich Projects (KRPs), which provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of children’s learning. We believe children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts.

Our curriculum provides many learning challenges throughout the academic year that require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively. Cornerstones also provide a rigorous skills and knowledge framework that outlines the end of year expectations in all subjects. These skills and knowledge are tied to activities and are age-related so that staff can track children’s progress and identify their individual learning needs.

Across our curriculum, relevant and purposeful links are made to spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, British Values and UNICEF rights. Children have a depth of understanding about these areas of the curriculum as they are interwoven in all teaching and learning.