Overview

2025-2026

2024-2025

Curriculum Vision

Our curriculum and endeavour is focused on connecting people with each other, with the school, with their community, with the world and what they are learning. When learning is connected, it is retained and can grow.

Nurturing seeds of learning  

Growing our minds to flourish 

Thriving as unique individuals  
 

Bayton C.E Primary School is situated in the very rural outskirts of Worcestershire, surrounded by fields bursting with crop that we witness growing and thriving each year.  In September, it is planted; the soil is worked down carefully and slowly, seeds are given the nurture that they need to germinate. Throughout the year, the crops begin to grow; they are maintained with the essential elements that will help them to flourish. Then finally, they are thriving and ready for harvest. Just like the cycle of arable land, here at Bayton, we aim to give our pupils the opportunity to GROW; just as God wants us to.  

“Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God” Psalm 92: 12-14

We live this vision wholeheartedly in all that we do. Bayton CE Primary School is a unique and creative hub of excellence where high standards of work and achievement oscillate effectively with passion and pride. The ‘Bayton Way’ is at the heart of curriculum enabling us to implement our three core values:

At Bayton CE Primary School we teach the Early Years Foundation Stage and National Curriculum plus our own bespoke strands. We have designed our curriculum specifically to the needs of our school and pupils. The organisation of our curriculum is built upon balancing the need for excellent core skills in Reading, Writing, Maths and RE with personal development and foundation subjects. All aspects have been carefully woven together and interconnected to ensure that the curriculum received by the pupils every day is holistic, coherent and well thought through.

Nurturing

Living wholeheartedly like Jesus, striving for full maturity and completeness in our lives. Planting seeds of values that support us to become flourishing children and adults of God. Developing our attributes to begin to grow our respect, integrity. humility, responsibility and empathy.   

Our Behaviour Curriculum is explicit, consistent and values driven. We directly teach pupils how to be respectful, responsible and wise, ensuring that character development is intentional rather than incidental. Half-termly teaching themes, reinforced through collective worship and daily routines, provide a coherent framework for reflection, accountability and growth. Positive choices are recognised and celebrated through our house system, where house points and additional playtime reinforce thoughtful and responsible behaviour.

Inclusion is the Golden Thread that runs through our curriculum. We contextualise and individualise learning so that every child can succeed and see purpose in their education. Barriers are identified and removed. Diversity is celebrated. Equity is prioritised. High-quality pastoral support underpins academic and personal success. Through our ELSA programme and Talk Hub, pupils develop emotional literacy, resilience and strategies for self-regulation. Led by both adults and pupils, these structures promote openness, inclusion and belonging. Every voice is valued. Every child is known.

Growing

Enabling pupils to become responsible for learning more and remembering more, creating a change in long-term memory. Gaining knowledge and skills to broaden academic and spiritual greatness.  Being inspired by The Parable of the Sower after learning what happens to each seed that falls or is planted. “But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Matthew 13:23

Our curriculum is ambitious for all. It fosters curiosity, critical thinking and resilience, ensuring learning is challenging, memorable and meaningful. Pupils are equipped with the knowledge, skills and cultural capital required for real life, empowered to enquire deeply and apply their understanding with confidence.

The Curriculum drives all aspects of the school forward ensuring all children thrive and find meaning and fulfilment in their school life. Our interconnected Curriculum is led by Key Humanities Drivers as ‘Themes’. All Learning starts with retrieval and then get children thinking about what learning will follow. Connections in the learning throughout the theme are encouraged but not essential. There are no limits to curiosity and thirst for new experiences and knowledge about the wider world so lessons are driven by Key Inquiry Questions linked to History or Geography. Our Early Years class offers a child-led approach with open-ended themes. Reading is a key element, allowing the children to gain further perspective and understanding by studying a quality text, through Drawing Club or Booktalk, that is linked to the theme. Carefully associated Genres in writing provide opportunities to delve deeper and master the key events, people and places they are studying. Our Maths lessons are often discrete, with an emphasis on the progression from new concepts, through fluency to mastery and greater depth. Oracy is a key element of our curriculum and underpins all core subjects. We develop pupils’ spoken language skills through structured approaches such as choral response, enabling all children to rehearse language, strengthen memory, and participate with confidence. Vocabulary development is supported through Word Aware, ensuring pupils remember, retain, and apply new words across the curriculum. Fluency is a crucial aspect of reading, and plays a vital role in building the expression, confidence, and comprehension that fluent reading requires.

 Each class undertakes a Local Study of our village and surrounding area to ensure our children are proud of their heritage and culture.

The Curriculum is carefully thought out to provide sequential learning that builds on prior knowledge in every subject. Assessment is key to ensuring our children build knowledge. All lessons - both core and foundation - begin with retrieval practise and KWL is used at the entry and exit point of Humanities themes. This helps children draw on their prior learning, remind them of all the connections between subjects that they have made, and create opportunities to consolidate learning and reflect. On-going assessment allows us to structure future learning and support to ensure every child grows, just as God wants us to, and is ready for the next stage of their education.

Thriving

Having the wisdom to know that we can make a difference in our school community and beyond, reflecting on the growth we’ve made this year and upholding our spiritual and academic knowledge to take forward to new experiences with God to guide us. 

Children engage in a wide variety of enrichment opportunities including visits out of school and visitors to school. We feel it is so important to inspire the children with a wealth of additional experiences and opportunities such as external coaches in PE and Dance to have exposure to experts. The children need to have the chance to experience new things, to work with those they wouldn’t normally be with and to try things presented to them in a different way to develop their curiosity about the world and worldviews around them.

Every child in school learns to play the recorder from Year One. House Matches and SchoolvSchool Sports events are arranged termly. We engage in musical and sporting events and local festivals such as the Rock Village Hall Family Christmas Day and the Teme Leisure Swimming Gala . Each year group has at least one trip and/or one inspirational visitor per term linked to their theme where possible. There are also whole school annual trips – The Pantomime and Weston Super Mare Beach- and visitors (Authors and Puppet Shows), the opportunity to take part in residential visits to London and an OAA Residential in Years Five and Six, and a wide range of extra-curricular clubs and opportunities throughout the year.

Our comprehensive Transition Strategy allows us to strategically plan a child’s journey through their time at Bayton Primary School.

Our whole school community shares this journey of learning with us. We invite our parents into our classrooms on a termly basis to experience a celebration of our successes within the classrooms. We work closely with our School PTA to organise annual events for our children to come together and enjoy.

Our extensive outdoor environment enhances both wellbeing and spiritual development. By valuing moments of pause alongside active learning, we nurture balanced individuals who are thoughtful, grounded and self-aware. We believe we achieve more together than apart. Through strong partnerships between pupils, staff, families and the wider community, we create a culture of belonging, aspiration and collective responsibility. Our curriculum develops not only successful learners, but principled, confident young people ready to make a meaningful difference.

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