Knowledge underpins and enables the application of skills. We strive for children to learn new skills alongside knowledge, ensuring that both are explicitly developed. Recognising that knowledge and skills are intertwined, we constantly look at links across subjects, helping to keep the teaching and learning relevant.

Using the EYFS Statutory Framework and National Curriculum, age-appropriate progression in knowledge and skills for each core and foundation subject has been identified and mapped out across the primary phases. Priority is given to the development of English and Maths skills of all our children.

We teach discreet subjects with an aim of preserving the unique nature of each subject and allowing children to gain a better understanding of each subject discipline, making connections where they are appropriate. We give a great deal of thought to the difference between substantive and disciplinary knowledge. We understand that there is more to a subject than the information, facts and concepts that are taught and learned. These things are substantive knowledge. Disciplinary knowledge focuses on what it is that historians, geographers, scientists, language speakers or programmers do to preserve the discipline in each subject and make it about more than substantive knowledge. This ensures that our children are supported not just to 'know and remember' but also 'to do'.

The Overview of Research document provided in the 2019 Ofsted framework states that "learning is at least partly defined as a change in pupils' long-term memory." The guidance also states that retrieval practice is an effective teaching tool for strong retention of knowledge. Our curriculum supports schema development (a pattern of repeated actions, which will later develop into learning concepts). We have chosen and put together our curriculum carefully to ensure that the children 'know more, remember more'. The schemes for each subject are carefully sequenced ensuring important themes and knowledge are revisited, and built upon throughout our curriculum to Year 6.