Our Curriculum

The vision At Greenfield Primary School, we are dedicated to delivering an inspiring, broad, balanced and inclusive curriculum that nurtures every pupil’s potential. We aim to develop curious, resilient and compassionate learners who thrive academically and personally. Our curriculum prioritises excellent communication, mathematical understanding and the essential knowledge and skills pupils need for life, learning and the future world of work. We actively promote fundamental British values — including respect, democracy, the rule of law and individual liberty — through learning that builds mutual respect and celebrates diversity. Pupils engage positively with the wider world, become confident global citizens, and are encouraged to see life as full of opportunity, challenge and purpose.

Intent At Greenfield Primary School, we are committed to delivering the highest standards of teaching and learning across every area of the curriculum. Our curriculum is carefully sequenced, enabling children to build confidently on prior learning so that knowledge, skills and understanding deepen progressively as they move through the school. This structured approach helps our pupils to know more, remember more and do more at each stage of their education. We place great importance on offering a broad, balanced and enriching curriculum that supports each child’s academic success while also nurturing their social, emotional and personal development. Through purposeful teaching, enrichment opportunities and practical experiences, we equip pupils with the essential knowledge, cultural awareness and life skills they need to thrive now and in the future. Our curriculum ensures children develop the cultural capital to confidently navigate the next stage of their learning journey and to engage meaningfully with the world around them.   Implementation At greenfield primary School we: Provide complete National Curriculum coverage. Embed a consistent approach to teaching and learning.  Creating lessons that are engaging, informative and challenging. Subject area Scheme Science PlanBee Art and Design Design and Technology History Geography RE PlanBee Computing Purple Mash Spanish Rachel Hawkes PE Real PE PHSE 1decision Music Charanga

 

Key information

KS1, LKS2 and UKS2 have created an overview sheet of schemes of work (curriculum maps) using a two-year rolling cycle across all none core subject areas. Each scheme of work comprising of 5 to 7 series of lessons.   In doing this we:

• Ensure age-related expectations combine the acquisition of knowledge and development of skills to create a purposeful and exciting learning journey for every child.
• Use resources create by experts.
• Enable children to revisit and build on prior learning.
• Ask and answer questions to make links between areas of learning and explore the world in which we live.

 

Impact

At Greenfield Primary School, pupils leave us with a secure and deep understanding of core academic knowledge and skills, prepared for the next steps of their learning journey. Alongside strong attainment in reading, writing and mathematics, our curriculum and school life ensure that children develop confidence, resilience and self-awareness in equal measure.

We place a high value on developing pupils who are socially, morally, spiritually and culturally aware, and who understand how to act with integrity, empathy and respect. Through purposeful learning, collective activities, PSHE, citizenship education and enriching experiences, pupils learn to make positive contributions to our school and local community and are encouraged to aspire, contribute and thrive as responsible citizens in modern Britain.

Our aim is for all of our children to be respectful, ambitious and curious learners with a thirst for life and all it has to offer — ready to take on new challenges, celebrate diversity, and engage confidently with the world around them.

 

Curriculum Maps

We operate a two year cycle. 2025 - 2026 is Cycle A. 

EYFS Cycle A and Cycle B

KS1 Cycle A and Cycle B

LKS2 (Y3/4) Cycle A and LKS2 (Y3/4) Cycle B

UKS2 (Y5/6) Cycle A  and UKS2 (Y5/6) Cycle B

 

 

 

We aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all our pupils, enriching this in a number of ways:

A range of visits locally and in the wider community

Residentials for pupils in KS2.

 

Cultural Events 

Theatre trips are a highlight for our children. 

• October 2023: Shrek The Musical at the Bradford Alhambra theatre.
• January 2023: KS2 visit to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Leeds Grand Theatre - January 2023 
• June 2023: KS1 children visited Sheffield Lyceum to watch Disney's Winnie The Pooh in June 2023.
• January 2025 we visited The Leeds Playhouse to see The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• December 2025: A Christmas Carol at The Leeds Playhouse.
• December 2026: Grinch The Musical at The Leeds Playhouse.
• Prior to Covid, we have taken children in KS2 to see Annie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Gangsta Granny at the Sheffield Lyceum. In December 2019 we took the whole school to see Cinderella the pantomime also at the Sheffield Lyceum. We have also taken the whole school to the Barnsley Civic where they have watched Christmas plays in 2017 and 2018.

We really value music at Greenfield Primary and our children have the opportunity to learn to play musical instruments through Barnsley Music Service. At the time of writing (February 2026), 12 children are being taught a variety of instruments including tenor horn, clarinet,  drums, keyboard and guitar by teachers from Barnsley Music Services and each of our three Y3/4 classes are receiving a term of ukulele tuition. We loved the rock band performance that we had a few Christmases ago! and the Old Blowers Music Performance - January 2023.  Barnsley Youth Choir have led several workshops with our children (resulting in some signing up to the BYC choir). These are always such high quality sessions and children and staff love them!

 

Personal Development

Personal development is both a subject and a school ethos. Our aim is to teach children how to navigate through life safely, happily and healthily. Children are growing up in a world that is constantly changing and it is the duty of all the staff at school in partnership with the parents teach the children transferable life skills. We teach children about the world around them, relationships, emotions, reproduction and health, as well as transferable skills to help with life. We consistently promote the British values and our school values.

We  received a reply from King Charles in response to our book of condolences.  Our school council always attend the cenotaph at Hoyland for Armistice Day where they take part in the parade and take real pride selling poppies through school. Our choir take great pride in singing at a local care home and chatting with residents during their time there. Our children love their Christmas parties and we enjoy celebrating achievements together in our weekly celebration assembly. 

Our children in KS2 take great pride in their pupil leadership roles. Through these roles, they are learning how they can support other children and they model excellent behaviour and attitudes.

We are fortunate to have such fabulous historical sites in our our local area and we visit them as part of our history and geography curriculum: Wentworth Woodhouse and Elsecar's rich coal mining heritage.  Our Y5/6 classes enjoy vising Elsecar Heritage Centre  to further develop their understanding of the local area. 

Visitors with particular expertise and interest come to school (this includes role models). Our First Aid training for the whole school was fabulous - so many life skills were learned by all and we look forward to running this training again as part of our two year cycle. 

Breakfast clubs and afterschool clubs are delivered by school staff and outside groups. We have now set up 'Our Space' which is our exciting new wrap around provision which runs daily after school until 6pm.

Bikeability work with our Y5 children each year to support them in using their bikes safe when on public highways and in March 2025 all of our children took part in workshops run by Dog Trust over the course of two days.  Dr Bike has visited school to service children's bikes and scooters for free which was popular.

We enjoy celebrating World Book Day in March to develop our reading culture and to foster a love of reading. Our Poetry Week in March 2024 was lots of fun and the children enjoyed seeing eachother perform.  Our new library, which was officially opened by Poet Ian McMillan, is loved by the children and we have invested lots of money in high quality texts (many of which were suggested by the children).

We enjoy taking part in charity events such as Wear Yellow for Mental Health, Red Nose Day, Children in Need and Christmas Jumper Day to support others and our Wellbeing Warriors help to organise such events.

Before his retirement, we had close links with Father Richard from our local church. He led assemblies in school around harvest, Christmas and Easter alongside a visit to Church at Christmas for our KS1 and KS2 children.

Pupil voice is heard through our School Councillors, Wellbeing Warriors and Pupil Librarians.

Many more things that we have done this academic year can be seen in our Events pages.