Caen Community Primary School

We are continually focussing on our curriculum offer to our children and reflecting on our teaching practise. We have thought carefully about how we sequence our curriculum and that knowlegde and skills are revisited and built upon. Staff have benefitted from pedagogical training and support that aligns with current research and findings about how to secure effective learning through quality first teaching. In lessons, teachers incorporate strategies to develop metacognition in children such as retreival practice and modelling that leads to independent practice. We place a great emphasis on reading and developing children's vocabularly across the school and whole curriclum.

Curriculum enrichment. Trips and Visits

We aim to get out and about and have in visitors to enrich the learning of our children. Y4 and Y6 have outdoor activity residentials for three days/ two nights and fives days respectively. Y5 have a three day/ two night residential in Bristol that has a history (Brunel and his engineering inventions during the Victorian era) and science (visit to AtBristol) focus. Further afield trips also include Y3 visiting Stonehenge and the Eden project as part of their history and geography learning and Y4 visit Exeter as part of their learning about the Romans. We also have local trips to Lynton and Lynmouth, Braunton Burrows, Croyde and further afield like the Eden Project. 

We also try to make best use of our wonderful beaches. As part of their curriculum PE Y6 go surf lifesaving weekly for a half-term in the summer. They learn to use the rescue boards, practice ins and outs of the sea and other disciplines associated with this sport.