At Mount Street Primary, our curriculum seeks to inspire every child to reach their full potential, seeing themselves in their learning whilst expanding their horizons and preparing them for the future.  

Addressing the National Curriculum, but tailored to our local context and adapted to meet the needs of our learners, our curriculum reflects the values and diversity of our vibrant multicultural community. With many of our children having English as an additional language, Oracy is a central tenet of our curriculum. Similarly, Reading is a key focus of our curriculum, integral to expanding vocabulary and supporting language development across all subjects. 

Informed by cognitive and neuroscientific research, our curriculum is deliberately designed and carefully sequenced to build on prior learning, revisit key concepts, apply knowledge, reinforcing long-term learning and memory retention. The strength of our curriculum lies in its ability to broaden a child's perspective, connecting prior learning and understanding with new knowledge and skills whilst opening up new worlds and understanding of beliefs, significant people, places and values they might not otherwise encounter.  

Teachers and leaders continuously refine our curriculum to ensure it remains dynamic and relevant and inspires the children to stay curious. 

The curriculum we follow for each subject is as follows: 

The United Learning Curriculum, developed by subject experts, has been selected following extensive research as the vehicle to teach the knowledge and skills in the majority of our wider curriculum subjects. Teachers and subject leaders take responsibility for driving the curriculum, ensuring it meets the needs of our individual learners, reflects our local context and is underpinned by the United Learning Curriculums, six core principles: 

Entitlement 

Coherence 

Mastery 

Adaptability 

Representation 

Education with character 

Enrichment: 

Our day – to day curriculum is enriched through extra-curricular activities. These run during lunchtimes and after school and provide a varied range of opportunities to bring the curriculum to life. For example, museum visits, STEM sessions, University workshops, termly Central Library visits, visiting authors, able Maths days and residentials are amongst other opportunities that draw on the children’s community, heritage and traditions to reinforce their learning. 

Every child engages with the exciting and engaging school curriculum alongside our extra-curricular opportunities, personalising where necessary, to provide an inclusive curriculum.