Intent & Enrichment

Enrichment at Kentmere Academy

We enrich our curriculum by:

• Providing on and off-site related activities
• Offering opportunities for children to learn outdoors
• Developing partnerships with external providers that extends children’s opportunities for learning
• Holding specialist curriculum days and ‘wow’ days
• Inviting in visitors to bring learning to life
• Taking children on residential trips
• Welcoming parents and carers to take part in children’s learning and experiences
• Using quality resources in and out of the classroom
• Utilising our local area for regular Geography field trips (at least two per year)
• Arranging career talks to inspire the children
• Participating in local sporting events

Through our holistic and engaging curriculum, we aim to enrich our children by providing them with purposeful, exciting, and real-life learning experiences, including a trip or experience every half term to bring the topic to life.

‘Pupils flourish as a result of the school’s steadfast commitment to supporting their wider personal development. They hone their talents through the praiseworthy extra curricular offer available to them, which includes a wide variety of clubs and trips.’

Ofsted 2024

About our Curriculum

We use a thematic and holistic approach to delivering the curriculum, where possible.  Each half term, every class has a new topic, in which the curriculum is taught around.  However, when a subject cannot be linked to the topic, it is taught separately.  These topics have been carefully selected in order to ensure that a broad and balanced range of subjects are delivered, with clear progression through the school.  We believe that teaching through the topic makes the learning more real and memorable for our children.  We deliver the foundation subjects on a two-week timetable; this allows for equal coverage and supports ‘sticky learning’ as children are encouraged to revisit and retrieve information from their previous lesson, two weeks ago.  Our curriculum is carefully planned and mapped out, based on the National Curriculum.

What our Pupils Say

“I love Craft club. It’s very creative and we make different things.”

Year 2 pupil

“I enjoy the clubs at Kentmere because there are a wide variety of choices and they are all really enjoyable.”

Year 5 pupil

“I love the after school clubs. They are really fun and you even have the opportunity to learn new things.” 

Year 6 pupil

“I like computing club because I can play Maths games and learn new things whilst improving my Maths knowledge.”

Year 4 pupil

I like choir as we get to sing in a big group and we have the opportunity to perform in different venues including the Co-op arena as part of Young Voices.

Year 5 pupil

Programmes of Study

Kentmere Academy and Nursery provides a secure, caring, challenging and stimulating environment. This offers every pupil the opportunity to progress with an informed and positive view of the contribution they can make towards their own education, the community in which they live and society in general. Click the links below to learn more about each subject. Any further information about the academy’s curriculum, how it is organised and taught can be obtained by contacting the office. 

Phonics Scheme

Our school is using the Ruth Miskin Phonics Scheme. If you would like more information about this scheme, we recommend viewing the following YouTube video
playlist by clicking here.

Kentmere Academy uses the Oxford University Press Reading Scheme,
click here to learn more.

Our Reading Policy can be found on our centralised policies page here.

What we do to Challenge Our Pupils

Watch our video to see what we do to challenge our pupils

A translation video is also available in Urdu