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Curriculum Innovations & Projects

Read about some of the innovations and curriculum projects being developed across our schools

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Curriculum Approach


Meridian Trust primary schools have collaboratively developed a bespoke approach to curriculum topic planning which ensures schools have autonomy over their curriculum choices whilst simultaneously embedding the effective pedagogies to ensure children learn at depth and are able to apply their learning and retain key facts in their long term memory. An underlying structure and approach to planning underpins all topics. There is a model Meridian Trust curriculum and bank of topics for schools to draw on should they wish to or they can use the planning tools to create their own high level topic and progression plans. All lessons contain key elements encompassing recall, new knowledge acquisition, comprehension often through active learning, assimilation of knowledge at a higher level of challenge culminating in a written outcome which enables the children to apply their knowledge at a deeper level.

Maths a six part lesson reasoning approach (Primary)


We are currently developing our daily maths fluency practice to be accessed by the children through branched Microsoft Forms. This enables questions the children have got incorrect to be branched off into a bespoke teaching and practice check to correct misconceptions , revisit methods and techniques and move childrens learning forwards at a bespoke level.

Powerful Words


Teaching brings many ********* one of the biggest perhaps is how we make best use of the ********; time that young people have with us. Against a seemingly ever-growing ********** of knowledge and skills that we want to ****** upon them, it can be hard to know where best to start.

Conundrums.
Precious.
Cornucopia.
Bestow.

Words. They won’t solve everything, but they do seem a good place to start…..

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