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 visitors in school to enrich the learning of our children. Visitors in school this year have included a visit from Mrs Recycle to Y2 and Y3 and an online morning for Y6 with the Holocaust Organisation exploring life for 10-year-old Leo in 1933.  Y4 and Y6 have outdoor activity residentials for three days (two nights) and five days (four nights) respectively. Y5 visit Bristol with a history focus linked to learning about the Industrial Revolution. Further afield trips also include Y3 visiting Stonehenge and the Eden project as part of their history and geography learning.  Y4 visit Exeter as part of their learning about the Romans and spend a day on Exmoor with the rangers conducting a river survey. We also have local trips to Lynton and Lynmouth, Braunton Burrows and Croyde. 

We make the best use of our incredible local environment.  Situated in the UNESCO biosphere, Braunton has local access to several beaches and Braunton Burrows. EYFS, Y1 and Y2 make good use of our school grounds and our village for a litter survey, visit to the Great Field and fire station, giving them a sense of place and familiarity with their local environment.  Y2 visit the Saunton Beach and Y3 explore the sustainability of the dunes with the rangers on Braunton Burrows.  Y6 revisit the Burrows to explore evidence of D-Day training during WW2.  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.