Our Broad and Rich School Curriculum
Our teaching promotes the spiritual, moral and cultural development of each child preparing them for lifelong learning with a strong Christian ethos as the foundations.
We place a necessarily strong emphasis on learning the basics of reading, writing and mathematics so that our children achieve their full potential. However, children learn best when they are interested and we strive to make our broad and balanced curriculum as creative and relevant to our children as possible. Learning is planned based on current pupil’s achievements, next steps in learning and takes in to account their different learning styles. We teach reading through the use of ‘Essential Letter and Sounds’ phonics and supplement this with high quality teaching strategies an resources. Daily reading, guided reading, the use of a range of intervention programmes and our well equipped library, challenges and supports learners of all abilities.
At St Mary’s skills such as computing, communication, research, problem solving and co-operative team working are promoted since these are the skills for life. We also place great emphasis on the development of each child’s personal, learning and thinking skills and firmly believe that these are fundamental in enabling them to achieve success in all aspects of their future lives in our rapidly changing world.
We provide a creative and stimulating learning environment within where we expect learners to respect, aim for and achieve their full potential. Learning takes place both within and beyond the school building.
As our mission statement says:
St Mary’s is a warm, happy, welcoming Church of England Primary School where children feel safe and everyone is valued, respected as an individual and encouraged to achieve their full potential.
Learning and caring for each other.
Religious Education –Religious education is compulsory for all children and at St Mary’s we follow Stockport’s scheme and use the recommended ‘Creative Learning’ scheme from Manchester Diocese to enhance learning. Our long term overview for R.E. can be seen by clicking on the link.