Welcome to the Curriculum section of Kents Hill Infant Academy’s website, where we emphasize a well-rounded educational experience tailored to nurture each child’s potential. Our curriculum is designed to be skills-based and knowledge-rich, ensuring that reading is at the heart of every learning opportunity.
As children progress from nursery through Year 2, they can expect a structured pathway of knowledge and skills development that encourages curiosity and instills a lifelong love of learning. We invite you to explore our curriculum subjects and discover how we empower our students to thrive academically and socially in a nurturing environment.
Please look at our family friendly curriculum newsletters to see what your child will be learning this term:
Statement of Curriculum Intent
At Kents Hill Infant Academy, our curriculum is both skills based and knowledge rich with reading underpinning and enhancing the learning experiences of our children. Our pupils take pride in achieving exceptional outcomes, showing curiosity and a thirst for learning. We aim for them to have a depth of understanding across the curriculum. Lifelong learning skills form the foundation on which our curriculum is built. We want our children to be independent, respectful, creative and resilient
Progression of Knowledge and Skills
At Kents Hill Infant Academy, we are dedicated to ensuring a structured progression of knowledge and skills throughout our curriculum. This journey begins in the nursery and continues through to Year 2, where foundational concepts are built upon each year. Each subject area is thoughtfully designed to encourage curiosity and engagement, fostering a love of learning that lasts a lifetime.
We believe that mastery of skills and understanding of knowledge is essential for our students to succeed in future academic pursuits. Hence, our progression framework is carefully mapped to ensure that every child not only acquires knowledge but also develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills as they advance through their educational journey.
Curriculum Subjects
Welcome to the Curriculum Subjects section of the Kents Hill Infant Academy website. Here, you can explore the diverse subjects we offer, each designed to inspire curiosity and foster a love for learning in our students. Our curriculum is carefully crafted to provide a well-rounded education, equipping children with essential skills and knowledge they will use throughout their lives.
In alignment with our educational goals, we aim for our students to engage deeply with each subject, developing critical thinking and creativity while enjoying a supportive and inclusive learning environment. Explore each curriculum subject to see how we empower our children to excel academically and personally.Please view the below documents for an overview of ech year group:
Independence, Teamwork, Take a risk, Quality, Effort, Determination
We encourage all pupils to have a positive ‘Growth Mindset’ which ensures that they have a willingness to learn from mistakes and are willing to have a go, and they will be able to elaborate this positive attitude to learning. Through this, we encourage them to achieve a mastery of subject-specific skills by;
- Perseverance, particularly when they find a concept challenging;
- Embracing challenges and innovating ways to problem solve;
- Asking good questions so that they can become critical learners who problem solve and demonstrate deeper levels of understanding;
- Showing resilience;
- Evaluating and critiquing;
- Taking learning risks, challenging themselves and others to be better learners;
- Believe in themselves to achieve success;
- Learn from others and the world around them;
- Encourage their own independence;
- Show determination to succeed;
- Be enterprising and willing to take responsibility.
We try to enrich learning through trips and visits, along with theme days throughout the year linked to either British Values or to spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. These trips, visits and themes underpin the topics and set the children’s learning into real life contexts, helping them to make sense of it.
Kents Hill Infant Academy – Where every child belongs and thrives. An infant school where the education of the individual child defines every activity we do.
