Our Curriculum

At Thornton, we offer an engaging and challenging curriculum designed to:

• Develop pupils’ skills to the very best of their ability in Mathematics and English as subjects in their own right and across other areas of the curriculum.
• Build knowledge, skills and understanding; providing opportunities to question, explore and research, reason and solve problems, think critically, weigh up evidence and debate arguments.    
• Provide opportunity to exercise creativity and imagination. 
• Foster a curiosity, fascination and deeper understanding of the wider world and its people, in the past, present and in the future.
• Equip learners with the skills and knowledge necessary to become safe, active participants in a digital world.
• Provide opportunities to build character, develop resilience and embed values to enable pupils to reach their full potential academically, socially, physically and mentally in preparation for the responsibilities and experiences of later life. 

Our curriculum is designed using evidence from learning principles, on-going assessment and organisation and cognitive research. It is built on the key principles: 

• Start with each learner’s current understanding.
• Involving the learner actively in the learning process.
• Promote metacognition by helping pupils understand purpose, quality criteria, and self-assessment.
• An emphasis on the social aspects of learning.  
• Organisation of the curriculum to allow regular review and reinforcement of knowledge and skills.