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Oldbury on Severn
Church of England VC
Primary School
‘Love one another as I have loved you’ (John 15:12)
Oldbury Primary School Logo
Oldbury on Severn
C of E VC Primary School
‘Love one another as I have loved you’ (John 15:12)
Oldbury Primary School Logo
Oldbury on Severn
C of E VC Primary School
‘Love one another as I have loved you’ (John 15:12)

Our Curriculum

Pupils immerse themselves in all that the school has to offer. They take on extra responsibilities with pride - OFSTED 

O. U. R. Curriculum Overview

​OUR curriculum (Oldbury’s Unique Response) has been developed to ensure that children have:  a sense of where they belong and how this fits into the wider world (character and identity); their rights and responsibilities as citizens of the world and a secure foundation of knowledge and skills on which to build lifelong learning. To this end, all of our themes start with the child and what they know developing into a deeper and broader understanding of local, national and global perspectives. Every theme is carefully planned building on prior knowledge and understanding (metacognition).

 In a world of great cultural and faith diversity we want our children to understand and celebrate similarities and difference. Our goal is that children leave us with ‘the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence’ – they will be empowered to live their own lives and have resilience to face a rapidly changing world.

Our curriculum helps our children to develop the skills and knowledge they need for their future lives as architects, engineers, designers, artists and teachers of the future.

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To find out more about O.U.R. Curriculum (Curriculum Model, Developing Character, EYFS and KS1, KS2, Anchor Topics and Topic Overviews) please download using this link: OUR Curriculum overview.

O.U.R. Curriculum Model

The final part of our Curriculum model is the importance of the holistic development of children and their character development. We developing character through:

Character caught, based on our values and ethos within the school

Character taught, a way of reinforcing positive character development through building learning powers – we call these our ‘Gem Powers’. It is the gem powers that help the learners develop

O.U.R. Curriculum – Developing Character

A major focus of OUR Curriculum is to empower our pupils to become effective learners and using our underpinning values to help develop a pupil’s character.

We believe that developing ‘character’ goes hand-in-hand with high academic aspirations. We support our students to become capable, curious, confident and caring learners who will be able to contribute positively to our ever changing community. Character can be caught and taught; caught in the everyday positive climate and ethos of our school and taught by inspirational teachers and support staff.

At Oldbury on Severn School we recognise that character is a valuable asset; we will make it our mission to help children to nurture it, look after it and be proud of it.

Character Caught – Research demonstrates that character development is most effective when schools live their values. Character is ‘caught’ through our climate and ethos, the values we have, the tone we set; in short our expectations. It’s in the way we model our own behaviours, the respect we show and the caring community we are part of and that we all foster. It’s also in the relationships we build, our humour, passion and enthusiasm for all that we do.

Character Taught – This is when we model and develop the children’s knowledge around personal development. This can be through our PSHE (Persona, Social and Health Education) and RSE (Relationship and Sex Education.) or more broadly through the way our curriculum has been developed and the way we plan to explicitly develop and nurture character.

It’s also about all teaching and support staff sharing the responsibility to promote and develop our Character Curriculum routinely and consistently.

One of ways we foster character development is through learning Gems – the gem system helps so make abstract concepts more tangible and concrete for the children. Children are empowered to develop a range of character attributes which are represented by a selection of gems, which are collectively referred to as ‘Gem Powers’. There is a strong link between the characteristics represented by the gems and our school values.

Our Gem powers are:

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To find out more about O.U.R. Curriculum (Curriculum Model, Developing Character, EYFS and KS1, KS2, Anchor Topics and Topic Overviews) please download using this link: OUR Curriculum overview.