Belmont School

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We take pride in our diverse community and celebrate the achievements of all our learners, focusing not just on academic success but also on sporting and creative achievements. The school ethos is underpinned by our commitment to children’s rights and how we follow them. As a nationally recognized Level 2 Rights Respecting School, we subscribe to and promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in all that we do, both within our school and in the wider community. British Values is promoted through our Rights Respecting work. Our children are our best advocates and demonstrate respect towards others in their learning, their friendships and in the roles and responsibilities, they embrace with enthusiasm. At Belmont, we have young teams of Rights Respecting Ambassadors, Eco Warriors, Prefects, Junior Librarians, Peer Mediators, Sports Leaders, Junior Travel Ambassadors, and our School Council who all promote our values and contribute to making important decisions about the direction of the school.
We endeavor to make the learning at Belmont challenging, interesting and creative through following the statutory curriculum that we are required to teach whilst adapting it to the needs of all pupils. Our curriculum is enhanced to ensure that children’s learning is relevant, builds on their experiences, and provides them with the skills they need to support them in later life. We aim to engender a lifelong love of learning for all. Our school development plan supports this learning journey.
The school has recently expanded from two to three forms of entry. This has resulted in three new Reception classrooms with a dedicated outdoor learning environment, in addition to six new classrooms, a Group Teaching Room, and a new school kitchen in our new build block. These facilities now provide increased access to a broad and rich learning experience for our children. We redesigned our school playground in 2016 and this now enhances children's outdoor learning and access to high-quality PE provision, in addition to embedding and extending our Forest Schools provision. The school is now recognized as a Learning Hub for Outdoor Learning and Mathematics and offers training and support to other schools and settings through the Harrow Teaching School Alliance in collaboration with the Harrow School Improvement Partnership.
Belmont is a very harmonious and happy multicultural school. We take pride in our diverse community and celebrate the achievements of all our learners, focusing not just on academic success but also on sporting and creative achievements. The school ethos is underpinned by our commitment to children’s rights and how we follow them. As a nationally recognized Level 2 Rights Respecting School, we subscribe to and promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in all that we do, both within our school and in the wider community. British Values is promoted through our Rights Respecting work. Our children are our best advocates and demonstrate respect towards others in their learning, their friendships and in the roles and responsibilities, they embrace with enthusiasm. At Belmont, we have young teams of Rights Respecting Ambassadors, Eco Warriors, Prefects, Junior Librarians, Peer Mediators, Sports Leaders, Junior Travel Ambassadors, and our School Council who all promote our values and contribute to making important decisions about the direction of the school.
We endeavor to make the learning at Belmont challenging, interesting and creative through following the statutory curriculum that we are required to teach whilst adapting it to the needs of all pupils. Our curriculum is enhanced to ensure that children’s learning is relevant, builds on their experiences, and provides them with the skills they need to support them in later life. We aim to engender a lifelong love of learning for all. Our school development plan supports this learning journey.
At Belmont School, we believe that all children have a desire to learn (article 28). We understand that if the learning that takes place is challenging, interesting, and creative, then our children will develop into life-long learners. Alongside this, we are responsible for teaching the statutory curriculum, but we strive to deliver a much broader and more balanced curriculum than what is compulsory. The National Curriculum (2014) provides schools with the outline of knowledge, skills, and understanding that we are required to cover in school. We choose to teach much of this through creative, cross-curricular themes, through the International Primary Curriculum (IPC), which covers our teaching in: Science, Art, and Design, Design Technology, Geography, and History.
We believe that teaching through the IPC helps us to fully promote the spiritual, moral, social, and cultural (SMSC) development of our pupils as well as achieve the aims of promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. It is also underpinned by our commitment to the UNCRC charter setting out children’s rights and responsibilities, which ultimately enables children to become respectful global citizens.
Although the IPC is our driving force for teaching, we also need to take account of changes in the statutory expectations, in particular, English and Maths where the content of learning has become significantly more demanding. This means that whilst we endeavor to integrate Maths and English skills into all IPC activities, we also teach many elements of the programs of study for English and Maths discreetly. Other subjects which are not fully covered by the IPC include Computing, Citizenship, Languages, Music, PE, and RE. In this instance, other programs of study or schemes are used to fully achieve the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum.
In the Early Years Foundation Stage (Nursery and Reception classes) we follow the seven EYFS areas of learning: Personal, social & emotional development Physical development Communication and language Literacy Mathematics Understanding the world, and Expressive arts and design. Within our Early Years Provision and Key Stage 1, daily phonics sessions are taught in classes, by the Letters and Sounds document. This provides a synthetic and systematic approach to the teaching of phonics and supports both the development of children's reading and writing skills
At Belmont, we are proud of our quality first teaching and endeavor to enable our whole school community to participate in the review and evaluation process of our rich and rigorous curriculum. For further information, please reference our overview of curriculum subjects and termly newsletters.
At Belmont School, as the curriculum has evolved, we have developed our new assessment system which was implemented fully from September 2015. We worked closely with other local schools to trial this and we are using software from an existing provider to the school, which is used by more than 3000 other schools nationally. Our system reports pupils’ attainment and progress against new Bands rather than levels. These Bands are all benchmarked against where pupils are expected to be for their age. Underpinning the Belmont curriculum are the key skills, knowledge, and understanding that children are expected to master in each subject and these are reflected in the assessment criteria in place.

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