The National Curriculum provides the basis for the education at Redhill. However, it’s not the whole story; we supplement with our areas of specialism. These are areas which we feel are important in the development of the whole children, in particular, enhancing self-esteem, empathy, confidence and inter-personal skills. Staff receive training in these specialist areas and we look for opportunities to embed them into other areas of the curriculum as well making them the focus of dedicated lessons.

Well-being:

Children's mental health and well-being is central to everything we do at Redhill. Collectively, our staff have worked together to create our Redhill Mindful Moments scheme of activities. These are interwoven throughout our curriculum and designed to allow teachers and staff to be instantly responsive to pupils' needs and to tailor their activities to the immediate well-being needs present in their classroom. We intend to provide a learning environment in which children and adults are taught how to understand, talk about and handle the mental-health and well-being of themselves and others.

Oracy

The ability to speak articulately, confidently and precisely in a range of contexts is a vital skill for lifelong learning, for successfully developing your career and for accessing a range of institutions and agencies in your future. Oracy is a golden thread through our curriculum and all children are encouraged to discuss, debate, reason and perform across every subject. We intend for pupils to develop their skills and confidence in speaking in front of a range of audiences across a range of subjects and for a range of purposes, developing skills planned in a progressive and structured curriculum.   

Poetry:

Poetry involves imagination and feelings and helps us to make sense of the world. It is a creative and cultural activity, providing an opportunity for pupils to explore the world, people from other places, times and cultures, and to examine differences and similarities with their own environment. We intend for pupils to deepen their understanding of language and enrich learning in subjects across the curriculum through reading, understanding and reciting poetry in a progressive, planned and aspirational poetry curriculum.

Performing Arts:

At Redhill, we pride ourselves on building and developing our pupils' confidence and their ability to express themselves through the arts. Performance is integral to our curriculum and we ensure every child has several opportunities throughout each academic year to perform in front of an audience, either in person or via a range of media, and for children to develop their singing, dancing, public speaking and much more. We intend for our pupils to learn through, from and about literature, art, dance and music from a wide range of times and voices.

Enterprise skills and Community Links:

Enterprise education is the practice of helping to develop the skills and attitudes we most closely associate with being enterprising or entrepreneurial. As part of this we teach children about budgeting, profit, loss and running a business. However, being enterprising is about more than this, it is about children having a positive and resilient mindset, being able to use their initiative, problem solving and working as a team. We intend that opportunities for meaningful enterprise activities focusing on the Redhill S.E.C.R.E.T. to success qualities are embedded in our curriculum and make contributions to local, national and international communities and organisations.

Sport

Our pupils are passionate about sport and we want to consistently capitalise on this passion and provide them with the opportunities to compete, demonstrate and progress their skills in a range of competitions and events across the region. We intend to provide a wide-range of inspiring and inclusive sporting opportunities, both through the delivery of high quality PE lessons and extra-curricular clubs and competitive sport.