Curriculum

At Glenbrook Spencer Academy, we provide high quality teaching and learning for every child, making sure that no-one gets left behind. 

• The Glenbrook Way: Teaching and Learning WALKTHRU

We work together to ensure that our curriculum engages and excites learners and provides opportunities for deeper exploration. Where possible, we engage children in planning the direction and style of their learning, instilling independence and a lasting positive attitude towards learning. 

We plan creatively to ensure our content is rich and engages learners. We use pedagogical tools including hooks, missions and stimuli to engage and to create gateways into learning. 

We are literacy and reading-focused, understanding that this creates the foundations for learning across all areas of the curriculum. Reading is the ‘golden thread’ and we aim for all curriculum lessons to contain an aspect of reading.  

Each half term, the learning is based around a quality text. All children are bought copies of the class book so that they can read at home, immerse themselves in fictional worlds, and begin to build their own library. 

Please click here to find out more about the Glenbrook Reading Spine.

We have half termly themes, where interdisciplinary links are made with other subjects and support children’s metacognition. 

Curriculum Values

• Promote mutual respect and positive values, creating a culture where effort is valued;
• Face new challenges through team work and leadership;
• Learn and achieve in a supportive and creative environment;
• Celebrate diversity and work in partnership with parents and the wider community. 

Curriculum Commitments

The curriculum at Glenbrook Spencer Academy will… 

• Link to the National Curriculum;
• Promote the highest standards of teaching and learning across all subjects;
• Develop a wide range of skills and broaden children’s life experience; 
• Inspire, motivate and engage pupils, helping them to become resilient, co-operative and collaborative learners;
• Develop children’s confidence, personal development and their capacity for self-directed learning. 

Curriculum Experiences

At Glenbrook Spencer Academy we offer the following curriculum experiences: 

• Visit or Visitor – Experience the world beyond their normal environment.
• Line of Enquiry – Pursue a line of enquiry that they have chosen. 
• Speech Scenario – Engage in a speech scenario  
• Active Citizenship or Leadership – Demonstrate leadership or active citizenship. 
• Be creative – Make or perform something significant that they have designed or composed. 

Knowledge Organisers