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About Our School
Welcome to Kingsthorpe Village Primary School which has, at its heart, a strong and effective TEAM ethos (Together Everyone Achieves More). As a school, we deliver a broad and balanced topic based themed curriculum linked to our successful butterfly model (a creative planning system).
We champion creativity within teaching and learning and aim to inspire our pupils, providing them with life skills they can apply in a variety of situations. We complement the curriculum through the provision of extensive extra-curricular opportunities and school events throughout the year and our pupils are enthusiastic, hardworking and resilient.
We recognise the benefits of celebrating our successes and developing effective community links and are continually looking for ways to improve the educational experienced of our pupils as future leaders in this technological world.
As a school we promote key British values throughout the year and pride ourselves on being a supportive and compassionate school.
Brian Gwynne
Head Teacher
Opening Times
Our school day starts at 8.55am (doors open at 8.45am) and finishes at 3.20pm for Reception class and 3.30pm for the rest of the school.
The Team
Mr Gwynne
Head Teacher
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Calvert
EYFS Teacher
EYFS Leader
History and Geography Leader
Stephanie Tillman
Deputy Head Teacher
Inclusion Leader
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Computing and ICT Leader
RHE and Mental Health Leader
Mrs Soldano
EYFS Teacher
Art Leader
Mr Everett
Year 5 Teacher
Senior Teacher
Key Stage 2 Leader
Maths Leader
Miss Quartermain
Year 1 Teacher
Science Leader
Mrs Cater
Year 2 Teacher
Key Stage 1 Leader
English Leader
Mrs Bushell
Year 6 Teacher
Music Leader
Modern Foreign Language Leader
Mrs Morgan
Teaching Assistant
Miss Brennan
Teaching Assistant
Miss Foster
Year 3 Teacher
Mrs Barber
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Blunt
Specialist Teaching Assistant
Miss Peck
Teaching Assistant
Mr Foster
Year 4 Teacher
Physical Education Leader
Miss Poole
Specialist Teaching Assistant
Mrs Mabbutt
Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Miss Oakley
Intervention Teacher
Mrs Wood
Teaching Assistant
Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Mountford
Teaching Assistant
Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Mackle
Teaching Assistant
Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Ireland
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Lloyd
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Briggs
Teaching Assistant
Lunchtime Supervisor
Ms Green
School Business Manager
Mrs Wood
Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Hammon
Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Leeson
Office Administrator
Mrs Traxler
Head Chef
Mrs Sutton
Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Linnell
Senior Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs Jackson
Assistant Chef
The Curriculum
OUR CURRICULUM
At Kingsthorpe Village Primary School we value a creatively rich and balanced curriculum based around the “Butterfly Model” and linked directly to the New National Curriculum. We link learning through topic based themes where pupils can become inspired and engaged in their learning environments. We adopt a depth of learning model where children can apply their new learning in a variety of different ways and we assess against key age related milestones. Core values are taught through the school ethos of TEAM and success celebrated throughout the school and with the wider community. At Kingsthorpe Village we aim to provide a wide range of fully inclusive learning experiences that are delivered to embrace different learning styles and maximise pupil’s engagement, enjoyment and understanding of how we learn to prepare children to become lifelong learners in this technological age.
The school curriculum comprises all learning and other experiences that each school plans for its pupils. The national curriculum forms one part of the school curriculum. All state schools are also required to make provision for a daily act of collective worship and must teach religious education to pupils at every key stage.
Curriculum Intent
Basic Principles
- Learning is a change to long-term memory.
- Our aims are to ensure that our students experience a wide breadth of study and have, by the end of each key stage, long-term memory of an ambitious body of procedural and semantic knowledge.
Curriculum Intent Model
Curriculum Drivers
Curriculum drivers shape our curriculum breadth. They are derived from an exploration of the backgrounds of our students, our beliefs about high quality education and our values. They are used to ensure we give our students appropriate and ambitious curriculum opportunities. The curriculum drivers at KVPS are: The Arts; positive Mental Health; and Initiative.
Cultural Capital
Cultural capital gives our students the vital background knowledge required to be informed and thoughtful members of our community who understand and believe in British values.
Curriculum Breadth
Curriculum breadth is shaped by our curriculum drivers, cultural capital, subject topics and our ambition for students to study the best of what has been thought and said by many generations of academics and scholars.
Subject Topics
Our curriculum distinguishes between subject topics and ‘threshold concepts’.Subject topics are the specific aspects of subjects that are studied.for this paragraph.
Threshold Concepts
Threshold concepts tie together the subject topics into meaningful schema.The same concepts are explored in a wide breadth of topics.
Milestones
Concepts are split into three Milestones, each of which includes the procedural and semantic knowledge students need to understand the threshold concepts and provides a progression model.
Cognitive Science
Our curriculum distinguishes between subject topics and ‘threshold concepts’.Subject topics are the specific aspects of subjects that are studied.for this paragraph.
Mastery
Within each Milestone, students gradually progress in their procedural fluency and semantic strength through three cognitive domains: prime, advancing and deep.The goal for students is to display sustained mastery at the ‘advancing’ stage of understanding by the end of each milestone and for the most able to have a greater depth of understanding at the ‘deep’ stage.The time-scale for sustained mastery or greater depth is therefore two years of study.
Pedagogy
As part of our progression model we use a different pedagogical style in each of the cognitive domains of basic, advancing and deep.This is based on the research of Sweller, Kirschner and Rosenshine who argue to direct instruction in the early stages of learning and discovery based appropriate later.
Behaviour
At Kingsthorpe Village Primary School, we are fully committed to the protection of children in our care. We are a caring community, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect. This Therapeutic Behaviour Policy is therefore designed to support the way in which the members of the school community can live and work together in a supportive way. It aims to promote an environment where all feel happy, safe and secure.
Good behaviour is an essential condition for effective learning and teaching to take place. At Kingsthorpe Village Primary School, we believe that pupils and staff have the right to work in an environment that is safe, friendly, peaceful and fair.
Good behaviour needs to be carefully developed and supported. High self-esteem promotes good behaviour, effective learning and positive relationships. The best results in terms of promoting good behaviour arise from emphasising potential, rewarding success and giving praise for effort and achievement, rather than focusing on shortcomings and failure.
Through the example of the adults who care for them at school and through well planned and stimulating learning opportunities, we believe that children will accept learning challenges and develop self-discipline. It is a responsibility of parents, carers and families to share with the school in helping their children to behave well.
Kingsthorpe Village Primary School does not tolerate bullying of any kind. If we discover that an act of bullying or intimidation has taken place, the incident is recorded and we act immediately to stop any further occurrences of such behaviour. We do everything in our power to ensure that all children attend school free from fear.