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The Curriculum
   

Click here to read about the following curriculum areas:

English
Mathematics
Science
Information Technology
Design and Technology
History
Geography
Physical Education
Music
Art
Religious Education
Personal, Social and Health Education
Special Educational Needs

Gifted and Talented Provision

General

At Darell we have always considered it vital to have a clear vision of the purpose of the school, even though like all state schools, we have to work within the framework of the centralised National Curriculum.

People want schools to do two things. Firstly we are asked to teach “the basics” so that all children can read and write confidently and manage the arithmetic they meet in daily life. Secondly, we are asked to prepare the children for an ever-changing world, for jobs which may not yet exist, and for leisure to enjoy a wide range of personal interests.

Darell covers both these requirements. It is important that children acquire the basic skills, and it is equally important that they realise that the world is full of possibilities, and that their own lives may be enriched by developing their talents and interests in the widest range of cultural, sporting and academic activities.

Darell has a tradition of preparing careful and systematic programmes of study to guide the children’s learning from nursery through to transfer to secondary school. These have been substantially amended to respond to the National Curriculum with its emphasis on the teaching of traditional and some not-so-traditional subjects.

We also try to look at children’s learning from a different dimension, considering children’s development in intellectual, social and moral, emotional and personal, aesthetic, spiritual and physical terms.

At Darell, therefore, we try to give the children KNOWLEDGE, we help them to acquire SKILLS and we help them to develop QUALITIES.

Just as the curriculum is changing and developing, so our aims and ethos must progress. All partners in the educational process can take a share in determining the direction of the school through regular discussion and review of the school’s curriculum. For the sake of space, the notes that follow do not cover all aspects of the school’s curriculum but give an outline of the main areas.

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