At Hangleton, our focus is on delivering a broad and balanced curriculum that excites and inspires all children. We use trips, visitors and themed days to enrich our learning, making it come alive.

Where appropriate, our foundation subjects are taught through topics. We use these topics to deliver the national curriculum in a fun and inspiring way, and they also interweave with our literacy. We have key questions which we use to explore the learning, and children will have the knowledge to answer these by the end of each topic. As an anti-racist school, we strive to deliver a diverse and representative curriculum, and are actively developing our topics and texts to ensure that we provide children with this.

We also have themed weeks and days across the year such as Art, DT and Science weeks, as well as World Book Day. Our reception children follow the Early Years curriculum, but also participate in these events.

We are very proud to have so much outside space for the children to enjoy, and to be used as an extension of the classroom. This includes a wildlife area, a sensory garden, an outdoor Forest School classroom and two play trails. We also have a school swimming pool which is used by all children in the school, with specialist swimming teachers.

Our curriculum is underpinned by our School Learning Behaviours, putting them in context for our children and demonstrating how important these behaviours are. Wherever possible we put our learning into a local context, using Brighton & Hove and the local area as inspiration.

By the end of their time at Hangleton, children will have the knowledge, skills and understanding to discover their passion and allow them to flourish in their next steps.

Topics, Trips and Knowledge Organisers

At Hangleton, our focus is on delivering a broad and balanced curriculum that excites and inspires all children. We use trips, visitors and themed days to make our learning come alive.  

As a school, we have mapped out our curriculum to ensure that the skills and knowledge for each subject progress as children move through the school. Below are the knowledge organisers and topic webs, showing an overview of the learning in each term.