Oak Trees MAT Curriculum Rationale

All Oak Trees’ schools are firmly committed to the vision:

‘Achieving Excellence Together.’

The teaching and learning of our curriculum enables adults and children to fulfil this vision by:

* having the belief that everyone has the power to inspire, the power to change and the power to achieve excellence in their own way,

*unlocking potential through knowledge, creativity, application, practice, discovery and passion,

* enabling the community to work together to create greatness inside and outside of the classroom,

* raising aspirations and inspiring children to be ambitious and develop a lifelong love of learning,

*dedicating our well balanced, child centred curriculum to ensure the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and physical development of every child to equip them for life in our society.

Our knowledge-rich curriculum is based on the MAT values and is designed to ensure children and staff have opportunities to:

Respect

Collaborate

Inspire

A key principle of the Oak Trees MAT is that each school has autonomy on its curriculum intent. i.e. the planned knowledge it wants its pupils to learn.