Curriculum

We want children to leave Marner equipped for the future and confident in themselves. We are committed to creating the conditions that allow every child to grow intellectually, socially, emotionally and culturally. We do this through inspiring teaching, a nurturing environment, a wide curriculum and the belief that all children can succeed.

Our curriculum reflects our ethos, vision and core values. 

We believe that a diverse curriculum is essential to offering a well-rounded and inclusive education. We want a curriculum that reflects the make-up and needs of the school community itself and is representative of all groups, cultures and ways of life in wider society. 

Work on our curriculum is ongoing and we continue to collaboratively work together as a staff team to ensure that it is rich, ambitious and excites our pupils about learning and life. 

Teaching and Learning

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) tiered approach provides an evidence-informed framework:

• High-quality teaching to improve attainment for all pupils.

• Targeted academic support across the spectrum of achievement.

• Wider strategies which address non-academic barriers to success in school - including supporting pupil’s social, emotional and behaviour needs, supporting attendance, extracurricular activities including breakfast clubs and meal provision, communicating with, and supporting, parents.

At Marner, the tiered approach helps us to articulate who we are as a school and how we contribute individually and within our teams to provide a safe, inclusive and ambitious learning community where all children can thrive.

We use Teaching WalkThrus to support a consistent approach to great teaching and learning that is evidence-informed. 

We know that great teaching is the most important lever schools have to improve pupil attainment. Ensuring every teacher – every staff member in our teaching teams - is supported in delivering high-quality teaching is essential to achieving the best outcomes for all pupils, particularly the most disadvantaged amongst them. 

Teaching WalkThrus provides a shared understanding and language for teaching and learning. This shared understanding and language enables precise and productive conversations about teaching and learning techniques in classrooms, within year groups, phase teams and across the school.

‘Welcome to Marner: these are our core Teaching and Learning techniques (WalkThrus)’  

At Marner, we have agreed on a set of core techniques (WalkThrus) which we believe are fundamental to high-quality teaching and learning in our school:

We believe that these techniques have the greatest impact on improving pupil outcomes. Our aim is to embed these core techniques across the school so that pupils’ habits are stronger, teachers' habits are stronger and learning is enhanced accordingly.

High-quality teaching is adaptive teaching. It is inclusive - providing equality of access and opportunity for all children. 

The teaching and learning core techniques emphasise maintaining high expectations for all learners while providing the necessary scaffolds to ensure all pupils are able to access and make progress within the curriculum.

Teaching and Learning Celebration Event

As a school community, we come together each year to showcase and celebrate the evidence-informed teaching and learning practice across our school.