Curriculum & Teaching
Inclusion is at the heart of all that we do – belonging comes first: every child is known, valued and included, enabling all to thrive and achieve.
Our curriculum is knowledge-rich, evidence-informed curriculum, it is carefully sequenced to be connected, cumulative and coherent, ensuring that every pupil can successfully build and retain knowledge over time. Our Bourne Identity ensures that teachers use explicit teaching, effective modelling, purposeful practice and responsive adaptation to support, challenge and empower all pupils to succeed.
Central to our approach is our six-part lesson structure, which provides a coherent and consistent framework for teaching and learning across all subjects. Lessons begin by retrieving prior knowledge before teachers explicitly introduce and model new learning. Pupils then practise and apply their understanding with increasing independence, culminating in opportunities to deepen and extend their thinking. This structured approach supports progression from initial understanding to mastery. This consistency enables pupils to feel confident, successful and fully included in their learning journey.
Grounded in cognitive science and neuroscience, our curriculum recognises the limitations of working memory. Learning is therefore carefully sequenced, key knowledge and vocabulary are explicitly taught, and concepts are revisited regularly through retrieval activities, questioning and review. These approaches strengthen memory, build secure schemas and enable pupils to retain and apply knowledge over time.
As a result, pupils develop rich knowledge, strong vocabulary and the confidence to make connections across their learning. They leave Bourne as curious, resilient and independent learners, equipped with the knowledge, skills and character needed for the next stage of their education and life beyond school.
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