Curriculum
Year 2 Great Fire of London Workshop
Harvest Festival 2024
Year 2 Rainforest Art
Mental Health Week 2024
Foundation-China Day
Year 1-African Drumming
Year 2 Zoo Lab Visit
Mental Health Day 2023
Children In Need 2023
We have been celebrating Mental Health Day 2023 at Butler's Hill this Term. We have been thinking about different ways we can feel good! We know how important it is to feel happy and safe and we had lots of fun sharing our ideas!
Outdoor learning at Butler's Hill
Remembrance Day & Bonfire Night 2022
At Butler’s Hill Infant School, every child matters. Our curriculum has been designed to ensure our children have the possible best start on their educational journey and are well prepared for the next phase of their education. Our curriculum allows children to develop their language and vocabulary and understanding of the world around them through first-hand learning experiences; making learning meaningful and memorable. Topics and learning sequences have been carefully planned to ensure they are relevant to the children and allow them to reach identified end points, gaining the skills and knowledge they need to be successful learners and be well prepared for life beyond our school.
At Butler’s Hill we make ‘learning irresistible’ sparking the interest, enthusiasm and curiosity in our children. This motto sings through everything we do from day to day lessons, our learning environment, visits and visitors, extra-curricular activities. We want our curriculum to be meaningful for children giving them a real sense of purpose when they learn. Children learn where they feel safe and are listened to, where they are valued and loved, where they are stimulated and challenged and where they ‘have fun!’
We understand and are committed to the development of the ‘whole child’ and acknowledge literacy and numeracy skills are essential but are only part of the education jigsaw. All pieces are important. We want children to leave Butler’s Hill with a thirst for learning, to be independent thinkers and to care for the environment with self-worth and confidence, with a care for the world and care for each other.
We want our school values to be embedded within our children and we want to educate them to be ‘good people’ who care for others and the community, who care for all things around them, including animals and the environment.
We aim for our curriculum to be skills based and knowledge rich. We also recognise the need for intelligent repetition as nothing has been learnt until it goes into your long term memory
If you require any further details or information on the curriculum that we teach, please contact school directly by phone or by Class Dojo.
A concept-based curriculum is used a Butler's Hill. We teach broad concepts like knowledge and understanding, chronological understanding and historical enquiry in history. We recognise that facts and topics are really important in our children's learning, but that there are other levels of learning above them that we can define and design. We recognise one level of learning informs the next, and how our children can transfer knowledge within a subject, between subjects, between year groups, and even between school and the world around them.
