Our new Global Curriculum provides an education that is relevant, contextualized and ready for the late 21st/early 22nd century. So fast is pace of change in evert area of life that educators we must build academic, problem solving, wellbeing skills to ensure children can thrive with change, and have a flexible skillset alongside knowledge to prepare them for whatever they encounter.
Our Global Curriculum is a reimagining of the primary curriculum to ensure that pupils’ learning is entirely relevant to the world in which they are growing up in. Global takes a theme-based approach which embraces all traditional subjects (including science, creative and performing arts) but instead of teaching subjects in silos, applies and builds them into a topic-based programme covered from Year 1 through to Year 6.
Pupils build skills and knowledge as they would if subjects were studied in stand-alone fashion but adds the key benefit of enabling them to identify how to apply knowledge and skills effectively and appropriately. A theme-based approach encourages natural curiosity, problem solving mindset and builds confidence.
The Global Curriculum has been shown to improve pupil academic outcomes and senior school scholarship attainment at Caterham School. Our academic teaching combined with our specialist learning environments (from Year 2 upwards) for Science, Design & Technology and Art, our extended teaching day and Saturday enrichment sessions, we are confident our academic offer provides children with the best start in life.
