At Healing Primary Academy, we strive to bring out the best in every child – academically, emotionally, physically and spiritually – to ensure that all pupils (including disadvantaged children and those with SEND) meet and exceed their potential, gaining the necessary skills needed to be happy, safe and successful in their future lives.
We achieve this through providing an inclusive, rich, broad, balanced and relevant curriculum throughout both key stages and Foundation Stage. Our focus on careers and enterprise through the Skills Builder Partnership and links with local industry enables our children to be successful in their future education, training and careers.
We recognise the value of reading in accessing a holistic curriculum and developing effective study skills and therefore reading is embedded throughout our curriculum design. We celebrate the diversity in our school and local community and utilise this to educate our children about the wider world, beyond NE Lincolnshire.
We ensure coverage of the National Curriculum, East Riding RE curriculum, we meet statutory requirements for Sex and Relationships Education, and provide a rich PSCHE curriculum via the suggested programme of study by the PSHCE Association.
At Healing Primary Academy, we are committed to providing our pupils with the very best start in reading, and to achieve this, we use the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme. This systematic and lively approach ensures that our children rapidly learn the sounds and the blending skills necessary to read fluently and to spell accurately. To ensure every child receives the targeted support they need, we assess all children every half-term. Based on these assessments, the pupils are then grouped with others working at a similar reading level. Phonics is taught daily, with all children participating in a daily Speed Sounds lesson followed by a book, specifically matched to their current phonics level. The same book is studied throughout the week in school, allowing for deep understanding and building fluency. To celebrate their success and model their confidence, the main book is sent home at the end of the week. A second book, also at the child’s reading level, is sent home too, ensuring they have plenty of opportunities to practice their new skills and develop a love for reading. Our commitment to excellence extends to our team: all staff receive ongoing, high-quality training and support to ensure they are the best teachers possible, delivering the Read Write Inc. programme with precision and passion. This dynamic, daily instruction, backed by expert teaching, ensures every child can make the best possible progress and develop into a confident, enthusiastic reader with a lifelong love of literature.
The Foundation Stage Framework is underpinned by the Statutory Framework for the early years foundation stage, Development Matters and Birth to 5 Matters.
High levels of knowledge and understanding of reading, writing and maths in Key Stage One allow children full access to the National curriculum. We enrich our curriculum through providing a wide range of educational visits and visitors, extra-curricular activities and specialist teachers for PE and music.
Our two-year rolling programme ensures coverage and progression in knowledge and skills, within mixed year-group classes; we are working on refining our curriculum to ensure it is appropriately sequenced to further enhance this.
Every subject is led by at least one qualified teacher. There is an expectation that subject leaders champion their subject and continually monitor and review its impact, incorporating areas for development into their action plans.
Our Curriculum Offer
Statement of Intent
Our curriculum has been designed with three goals in mind:
- To ensure all our pupils have the opportunity to fulfil their academic potential.
We achieve this by:- Providing a comprehensive, stimulating curriculum that equips children with knowledge and skills for them to be successful;
- Offering a curriculum that is rooted in knowing more and remembering more through building on prior knowledge and extending vocabulary.
- Embedding reading throughout our curriculum, in order to develop confident readers who choose to read for pleasure;
- Having high expectations in all subjects.
- To provide children with the life skills and cultural capital needed to be successful in the future.
We achieve this by:- Educating our children about the wider world, beyond North East Lincolnshire;
- Providing a curriculum that reflects our local community;
- Focusing on careers and enterprise through the Skills Builder Programme and STEM opportunities;
- Enriching our curriculum through a wide range of visits and visitors;
- Teaching a broad and balanced curriculum.
- To develop personal attributes, which enable children to be healthy, happy, responsible citizens.
We achieve this by:- Developing a culture that prioritises wellbeing and mental health which encourages pupils to thrive socially and emotionally and fosters a readiness to learn;
- Providing a safe and stimulating learning culture, which promotes independent and resilient learners and where everybody feels valued;
- Allowing opportunities for children to realise and share their talents;
- Giving opportunities to take part in a wide range of extra- curricular activities;
- Teaching a rich PSHE curriculum, where children learn about diversity and to be tolerant and respectful;
- Celebrating diversity through a comprehensive global calendar of planned whole school events.
The Right to Withdraw from R.E:
The parent of a pupil may request that they be excused from all or part of the religious education provided at Healing Primary Academy. However, it is important to ensure that parents are aware of the aims of our curriculum as RE is for all pupils and every pupil is legally entitled to Religious Education as part of a ‘broad and balanced’ curriculum. Parents are encouraged and given an opportunity to discuss this further if they wish. No reasons need to be given for withdrawal from RE. If pupils are withdrawn from RE, staff have a duty to supervise them, though not to provide additional teaching or to incur extra cost. Pupils will remain on school premises. Parents will be asked to provide a suitable alternative. Parents who wish to withdraw their child will complete and sign a letter explaining this giving reasoning and alternative provision that will be provided.