Curriculum Overview and Statement
The Boundary Way: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
At Boundary Primary School, our curriculum is designed to inspire a love of learning while helping every child grow into a confident, resilient and responsible individual. We provide rich, meaningful experiences that build knowledge, develop skills and broaden pupils’ understanding of the world.
Our curriculum is ambitious, inclusive and carefully structured to ensure all children make strong progress from their starting points. It combines academic rigour with opportunities for creativity, exploration and deeper learning. Through a focus on cultural capital, we equip pupils with the knowledge, vocabulary and experiences they need to succeed in school and beyond.
Learning is thoughtfully planned using evidence-based approaches such as retrieval practice and spaced repetition, helping children remember more and build secure understanding over time. Subjects are sequenced clearly, with defined end points, ensuring progression across all areas of learning.
Our teaching approach, known as DR ICE (Deepening Thinking, Role Modelling, Impact, Challenge and Engagement), promotes high-quality teaching through active learning, strong relationships, clear expectations and purposeful challenge for all pupils.
We place equal importance on pupils’ personal development. Our curriculum develops communication skills, character, wellbeing and aspirations, supported by our Oracy framework and The Thrive Approach, which nurtures emotional and social growth.
Assessment is an integral part of learning at Boundary. Through ongoing feedback, in-school assessments and national measures, we ensure pupils’ progress is carefully tracked, celebrated and supported.
Redwoods: Our SEND Morning Provision
At Boundary, we are proud to offer our Redwoods SEND morning provision, which provides a highly personalised and inclusive curriculum for pupils with additional needs.
The Redwoods curriculum is carefully designed to ensure every child can access meaningful learning that prepares them for independence and future success. It focuses on functional literacy and numeracy, communication, and preparation for adulthood, helping pupils build essential life skills such as managing money, understanding time and developing confidence in real-life situations.
Learning in Redwoods follows a progressive, small-step approach, tailored to each pupil’s individual starting point and linked closely to their EHCP outcomes. Teaching is highly adaptive, using visual supports, repetition, assistive technology and alternative communication methods to ensure all pupils can succeed.
We place a strong emphasis on developing independence, communication and emotional wellbeing, with a curriculum that integrates the school’s Oracy approach and Thrive principles. Pupils are supported to become confident communicators, resilient learners and active participants in their community.
Redwoods is fully aligned with our whole-school curriculum, maintaining the same high
Redwoods: Afternoon SEMH & Nurture Provision
In the afternoons, Redwoods provides a specialist SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health) and Nurture provision, supporting pupils who need additional help with emotional wellbeing, relationships and engagement in learning.
This provision offers a highly personalised, flexible and emotionally informed curriculum, rooted in the Thrive Approach and nurture principles. It focuses on helping pupils feel safe, understood and ready to learn.
A key priority is the development of emotional literacy and regulation. Pupils take part in daily check-ins, develop a rich emotional vocabulary and learn strategies to manage their feelings, build resilience and overcome barriers to learning.
The curriculum also supports social development, providing opportunities to practise communication, cooperation and conflict resolution in a safe and structured environment. Strong, trusting relationships with adults are central, helping pupils to build confidence and a sense of belonging.
Learning is flexible and often interest-led, adapting to each child’s emotional readiness and needs. Pupils benefit from small-group and individual nurture sessions, alongside opportunities to take part in wider school experiences, ensuring inclusion and connection with their peers.
Through this provision, pupils develop the skills they need to:
regulate their emotions and behaviour
build positive relationships
engage more successfully in learning
grow in confidence and independence
Ultimately, the Redwoods nurture provision supports pupils to feel safe, valued and successful, enabling them to reintegrate into wider learning and prepare for their future.
Equality
Our curriculum complies with the Equality Act 2019 and the Disability Regulations 2014 and does not discriminate against any protected characteristic - our children are taught about these, explicitly and subtlety, within a range of subjects.
We understand the principal of the act and the work needed to ensure that those with protected characteristics are not discriminated against and are given equality of opportunity, complying with the Public Sector Equality Duty.
A protected characteristic under the act covers the groups listed below:
age (for employees not for service provision)
disability
race
sex (including issues of transgender)
gender reassignment
maternity and pregnancy
religion and belief
sexual orientation
Marriage and Civil Partnership (for employees)
Above all, we are committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment where every child is valued, challenged and supported to achieve their full potential and prepare for a successful future.
If you require more information about any aspect of our School’s Curriculum, please contact the school office, who will be happy to put you in touch with the appropriate Subject Leader (01253) 287250 or you can visit the page for each subject by clicking here.
