St George's Church of England School, Bourton

Introduction & Intent

We are proud of our Christian community and the values we uphold. Through our Christian Faith, we acknowledge our responsibility to all, to enrich lives and show love and respect within our school family. We believe in lifelong learning aiming to equip our children to live life today and for tomorrow in a safe, nurturing and fulfilling environment.

“Let your light Shine” (Matthew 5:16)

Our school is the light that brings Jesus into the lives of all in our community.    

We use the Curious City Curriculum which inspires and guides our teachers to create contextually relevant enquiry-led experiences.  This enquiry-led approach is enabling our school to create a bespoke, locally focused curriculum that goes beyond the National Curriculum 2014.

Our framework provides curious and creative learning opportunities which are progressively planned, matched to cognitive development and expose learners to the wider world in carefully planned stages.   Each enquiry is designed to provide just enough guidance whilst enabling teachers to inspire learners with local people, places and stories relevant to the school’s locality. 

Our world is ever changing, the pressures on our environment are evidently multiplying and technology is constantly evolving. Our children are used to hearing about how we are living in unprecedented times. Now more than ever, our children need to know that their primary education is equipping them with the essential knowledge (know of) and the ‘know how’ to thrive in the next stages of their education and beyond. We want our children to be aspirational, creative, kind and responsible lifelong learners. Our curriculum is unique but not isolated; we are part of a family of curious, enquiry-led settings across the academy and collaborate regularly at learner, teacher and leader levels.

Our curriculum is designed to allow our children to be independent in their approach as they actively ‘look into’ rather than simply ‘learn about’ an area. Our children become historians rather than simply learning about history.

Our aim is for children to know more, be able to do more and be able to make more plausible conceptual connections across the different states of being.