Honeywell Curriculum Intent

Honeywell’s connected curriculum is ambitious, rooted in our wider community and driven by aspiration for our children’s futures. The curriculum connects who they are now and prepares them for who they could become as global citizens in an ever-changing world.

Our curriculum is planned and sequenced so that skills, knowledge and experiences build upon what has been taught and leads to the next clearly defined steps. Our aim is for all children to engage deeply with learning, to make connections within their learning and to relate their learning to the world beyond Honeywell.

Our curriculum design has our vision and values at its core. It is our intention that our children are enabled to make compassionate, tolerant, respectful and informed decisions about the individual and citizen they wish to be. Demonstrating resilience in exploration and aspiration in order to achieve. We aim high.

Developing excellent oracy skills is an essential layer of our connected curriculum. Children need to find and use their words, their voice, to express thoughts, feelings, opinions and learning and to be interested in and respectful of what others think, say and feel.

Key global perspectives further develop and drive connections in our curriculum:

Fundamentally, we aim to create an environment where we can all be the best we can be. Where we can grow the hearts and minds of all learners so they can thrive, be safe, ambitious and successful, now and in their future steps.

Honeywell Curriculum Implementation

At Honeywell, our curriculum design is underpinned by our school values and vision for what children in our community need to become confident and independent learners. In planning our curriculum, we begin with the National Curriculum; this ensures breadth and ambition and enables broad and balanced learning. 

We made the decision to structure our curriculum around broad themes:

This structure provides coherent, relevant and meaningful contexts for learning within and across subjects.

Each term, the subject curriculum driver is connected to English reading and writing through carefully chosen high quality texts.  This enables children to engage with knowledge and ideas in different formats and models. Opportunities to reflect upon key knowledge are built into medium term learning sequences in order to deepen learning and make it stick in the memory. This is further supported through enriching educational experiences.  

Subject curriculum design begins with knowledge. Discrete subject progressions map the key substantive and conceptual knowledge that children will experience and master over time.   Our connected curriculum encourages children to really think about past, present and future worlds, develop knowledge and skills and then apply them with increasing confidence in a range of contexts, questions and problems. Connections need to be authentic. Where necessary subjects are taught discretely. Progression documents are used to plan year group overviews which are then sequenced in detail in medium term planning.

Our curriculum begins in the Early Years Foundation stage. Our subject progression pathways then build on the foundations established. The EYFS curriculum provides experiences and learning in Communication and Language, Personal Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.  Playing and exploring, active learning, creating and thinking in this foundation curriculum are the building blocks for subsequent learning in discrete subjects.

Our curriculum is carefully thought through because we expect our children to engage, question, explore, make connections, have high aspirations for themselves and above all achieve, to be the best that they can be.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice

and, most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Pele