School Curriculum

During 2024, we evaluated our Petersfield curriculum during autumn 2024 and spring 2025, we completed the implementing stage of our new curriculum.

The curriculum journey at Petersfield starts the minute the pupils walk through our school gates and continues throughout the entire day.

Our Vision, Intent, Implementation and Impact statement are currently being updated to reflect our new curriculum and these will be declare our aspirations for our pupils, along with our Petersfield Pledge.

Our aim continues to be to ensure that our children leave our school ready for the next stage of their educational career with the skills and values to equip them for life.

We continue to revise our curriculum offer by mapping out the key knowledge and skill we plan for our pupils to learn.

We have revised and improved our skills progression for all foundation subjects so that different expectations for each year group are explicitly clear.

Subject leaders are monitor the provision and where possible, cross curricular links are being made.

During 2025, we are adapting the diagnostic assessments and 'cold task' at the beginning of each topic to help teachers shape their teaching.

Learning cumulates in a “hot write” or assessment opportunity to show the progression of skills and knowledge acquired over the topic.

We have also focused on explicitly identifying and teaching the vocabulary needed for the subject areas.

We are able to use our beautiful school grounds as much as possible, where relevant.

We are delighted to have previously achieved the Silver Artsmark. We strongly believe the arts provide a foundation for learning to enable children to achieve their full potential. We firmly believe that children of all abilities learn best when they are inspired and their creativity can take them in many directions!

We have reviewed our programme of extra events and kept those which make a significant contribution to the wider needs of the school. We now have more extra-curricular clubs and activities before school, during lunchtimes and after school to give our pupils a wider range of learning opportunities. These include friendship club. choir, code club, drama club and sports clubs. We also actively encourage our wider community to come into school to share their expertise and talents with the pupils, for example through careers week, the Lent challenge and historical digs.

Our new Curriculum Information

Subject Curriculum Overviews

These documents will continue to be updated as they are published during 2025.