Our topic-based curriculum allows children to get fully absorbed into their learning and make links between subjects, topics and themes. We constantly review our curriculum in order for it to be relevant and of interest to the children, providing them with the knowledge and skills they need for the next stages of their lives after primary school. 

We have families from many parts of the world, speaking many languages, with a tremendous diversity of cultural, religious, historical and geographical experience. We aim to ensure that our curriculum draws on all this richness.

Art

The greater the variety of activities children experience, the better they do in all subjects across the curriculum. A child who is encouraged to develop confidence and self-expression will clearly be one who is better equipped to learn generally. We believe in educating the whole child and we encourage children to use art as their own expressive language. From the moment children join our school, they begin to develop their artistic and expressive skills through a variety of media and techniques.

Music

Music and the Performing Arts play a very important and valued part of life at Walnut Tree Walk and the outstanding provision here enables children to explore a range of ways to express themselves.

We have two specialist music teachers, Daniel and Sue, who teach the children singing and instrumental work. In the Early Years the lessons focus on singing and use of percussion instruments and then as they move into Years 1 and 2, they start to learn to play the violin. In Key Stage 2 the children choose between playing the saxophone, flute, clarinet, violin, keyboard or cello. We also have a school choir that sing at events in and out of the school.

Performances

Our Friday morning assemblies take pride of place in the life of the school. Each class in turn performs usually three assemblies a year. They may be based on current work or on a topical issue. We really welcome parents, carers and friends of the school to these important events and view the process of working towards these performances as crucial to our children’s social, emotional and educational development.

Outdoor Learning and the Edible Playground

We are delighted to be part of the Edible Playgrounds project, funded by Trees for Cities.

In our playground, we have a number of raised beds where every child in the school plants and grows their own fruit and vegetables – and then eats them!
Increasingly exposed to unhealthy food choices and with limited opportunities to grow and eat good food, one in three children leaving primary school are overweight or obese.

Edible Playgrounds offer a lively, engaging, multi-sensory way to teach children about growing and eating healthy food. Aside from the physical health benefits that eating well brings, learning in an outdoor environment combats Nature Deficit Disorder and has been shown to increase mental health by boosting mood, confidence and self-esteem.

Curriculum

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