This curriculum has been designed with these goals in mind:

• We want our curriculum to instil a fascination in local and global environments.

• We want our curriculum to inspire our students to respect and appreciate the diversity and interconnectivity of our world and its citizens.

• To understand the relationship between physical and human processes.

• We want our curriculum to encourage and promote sustainability and for pupils to know their part in it.

• Our children should leave with an excitement for exploration and an open mind for learning about different countries and cultures.

• Our curriculum should enable children to understand the link between time and place.

The curriculum has been designed with:

• A flexibility that can reflect, and respond to, the needs and passions of our school communities.

• An open structure to allow new perspectives and latest research to be easily incorporated.