Our Curriculum

St Stephen's Infant School Curriculum

 At St Stephen's Infant School we understand the importance of providing children with an abundance of opportunities to learn more and make links with their prior learning.  By ensuring that children can retreive their knowledge and build on it, children will become confident and independent learners who build on their skills and remember more.  

Below are our intent and progression grids for each subject area taught in school.

The school will make provisions to account for parents’ right to withdraw their child from RE lessons. 

Cornerstones Curriculum 

At St Stephen’s Infant School we follow the Cornerstones Curriculum; a creative and  thematic approach to learning that is fully mapped to the 2014 Primary National  Curriculum. Following the Cornerstones Curriculum ensures we have comprehensive  coverage of the primary national curriculum expectations. Our curriculum ensures that  every child has access to rich, relevant and age-appropriate content. 

At its heart of the curriculum is a child-centred pedagogy, The Four Cornerstones,  which is delivered through two main types of projects: 

• Cross-Curricula Projects – exciting, themed projects that spark curiosity, creativity  and real-world connections. 

• Knowledge Rich Projects – subject-specific projects that emphasise depth, rigour  and progression. 

Together, these projects form the foundation of our school curriculum and provide  a rich menu of engaging and motivating activities that draw meaningful links across  subjects. 

Over the course of the year, our children are challenged with tasks that require them  to solve problems, think creatively, and express their understanding in different ways.  Alongside this creative work, our curriculum includes a robust skills and knowledge  progression framework, which sets out clear end-of-year expectations for every  subject. These expectations are age-related and linked to specific activities, making  tracking progress, identifying children’s individual needs, and planning targeted next  steps effective and informative. 

You can explore examples of the Cornerstones Curriculum projects and learn more  about the Four Cornerstones pedagogy on the Cornerstones Education website.