Our Intent | Niton Primary School

Thank you for the feedback from your children's reports, here is a selection - "My child has absolutely loved her first year of school, I've been blown away by how much she has learnt over the past year and I'm so glad we chose Niton Primary School for her. Thank you to all of you." "A lovely report and great to see our child is enjoying their learning too." "Many thanks to Mrs Patching and Miss Stotesbury for all of their support." " I am extremely proud of how well my child has done this year, thank you." "We are so proud of the effort our child has put in this year, thank you to the school and teaching staff for helping him to achieve this." "We are extremely proud and grateful for the start our child has had under your care. He's enthusiastic everyday in terms of going to school and adores learning. Thank you to you all!" "We are very happy with the progress our child has made. Her confidence has grown and she has enjoyed this year so much. Thank you for the support you have given her, we very much appreciate it." "We are so proud of everything our child has achieved, thank you for your support." "Thank you to all of the teachers - especially Mrs Johnson who has encouraged, supported and believed in our child." "We are so proud of our child's report. She really enjoys school, which is lovely, and I can't thank you enough for all you have done for her." "We have seen a big improvement in writing, reading and creativity since she has been getting help at school, thank you."

Niton Curriculum Intent

Our curriculum is designed to recognise children’s prior learning, provide first hand learning experiences, allow the children to develop interpersonal skills, build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers with a love of learning.

Our staff team have spent time thinking about the location of our primary school and what the Isle of Wight has to offer our children, as well as thinking about the skills we want our children to develop during their time with us so that they can successfully continue onto the next stage of their learning journey. The skills of reading, writing and maths continue to be at the heart of our curriculum offer, unlocking all other subjects. In order to promote curiosity most topics are enquiry based, raising questions to spark the children’s interests. Teachers work to plan exciting hooks into topics, this could be a visit or visitor into school or a day of exciting activities introducing the learning. We make links across subjects wherever possible in order to immerse the children in their learning, carefully monitoring the coverage of all subject areas. For each topic we ask children to complete a baseline so we can assess their prior knowledge. This way we can extend the learning of each individual, building upon knowledge and skills they may already have in each subject area. The tasks presented to our pupils are challenging and we encourage the children to have a go, take risks and make mistakes working together to develop their interpersonal skills and resilience. The children have told us that they can work harder and as a result our brilliant staff team are working harder to provide the children at Niton with a range of rich learning experiences.

Welcome to Niton Primary School!