Primary Curriculum

At The Greens in our Primary Phase, we aim to provide an ambitious, creative and progressive curriculum.

At The Greens in our Primary Phase, we aim to provide an ambitious, creative and progressive curriculum.

Pine Green Academy accommodates children from Year 3 through to Year 6 in its inclusive primary department and from Year 7 to Year 11 in our secondary phase.

We provide a broad an ambitious curriculum for our young people as well as providing out young people with access to a range of interventions and classes designed to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of our young people.

As we offer an ‘All-through’ Curriculum, English, Maths, Science, PSHE and additional subjects are carefully sequenced to ensure that students continue to make progress regardless of their cognitive abilities, ‘social, emotional & mental health’ difficulties or other barriers that they may face. A number of subjects and interventions, detailed below, start in Primary and continue to Secondary.

In Primary, our children are given the opportunity to experience the full range of National Curriculum subjects in our Dimensions Curriculum.

Students are placed on pathways for Core Subjects ensuring that when students leave Pine Green Academy, they do so with appropriate qualifications for the next stage of their journey. You can find out more about how our Curriculum Pathways extend in to Secondary by clicking on the image and the document below.

What makes us special is that not only are subjects tailored to each child’s academic ability, but at the heart of all we do, is the social and emotional development and well-being of each of our children.

Most of our pupils start the primary phase with significant barriers to learning and many have already become thoroughly disengaged. We, therefore, facilitate their learning in different ways and ensure that the curriculum is an engaging, enriching and enjoyable experience bringing the curriculum – and learning - to life. Our dedicated staff encourage, motivate and promote academic curiosity through a multitude of learning opportunities.

A different theme focus each half-term means that topics can be explored in practical and thematic ways, allowing our children to transfer and apply knowledge across the subjects. This makes learning a more meaningful and purposeful experience. Whether designing egg parachutes, escaping rooms, making dens and hot chocolate in the onsite forest area or creating models from a variety of materials, each child learns to use their numeracy and literacy skills to increase their knowledge as well as to develop their problem-solving skills.

In summary, we seek to offer a curriculum which provides experiential learning by planning equally for each child’s academic and their SEMH progress in order to support our children in becoming well-rounded, literate, articulate and effective learners now, continuing in the future

For more information about our primary curriculum, click on the links below:

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