Curriculum Offer 

We pride ourselves on designing a bespoke curriculum to meet the needs of all pupils whilst ensuring coverage in line with the national curriculum. All schools must deliver the national curriculum, as the Department for Education (DfE) outlines. However, 'how' schools deliver the national curriculum is something schools can decide and we all work hard to make sure the way we teach is both inspiring and inclusive. 

The way we teach the curriculum at Riddlesden St Mary's stems from Haberman's 'Four domains of productive pedagogies'. You can find more information about these approaches to teaching here https://helpfulprofessor.com/productive-pedagogies/

 We have recently had the privilege of working alongside Hywel Roberts to support teacher development, ensuring there is an element of 'Botherdness' in all we do. Our curriculum offer is text-based and each unit of work has a high-quality text as the main driver. Based on Daniel Willingham's learning theory around storytelling https://teacherhead.com/2018/09/23/great-teaching-the-power-of-stories/, we have adopted a 'Let's say' approach to introduce a 'person, place and problem' to engage all learners. 

As a school, we were the early adopters of a mixed-ability approach to teaching and learning. Through quality-first teaching approaches, our curriculum offer provides all children with the opportunity to develop key skills and knowledge in a way that inspires and ignites a love of learning, regardless of their academic starting point. 

 We have designed whole school approaches to support mixed ability teaching and learning and these are now embedded across the majority of subjects. 

 

rsm adaptive teaching whole school strategies.pdf