Religious Education is a central element of our curriculum. We follow the Salford Diocesan scheme – Come and See. Assemblies are held twice a week and collective acts of worship are a daily feature. All children are taught about the Catholic faith, however, parents have the right to withdraw their children from Religious Education lessons, assemblies and collective worship.

Like all schools, we follow the National Curriculum for English, Mathematics, Science, Design and Technology, Geography, History, Music, Art and Design, Physical Education, PSHE and Computing, with Spanish taught in KS2.

Two main methods of teaching are used in school. The first is the teaching of subjects separately and the second is the teaching of subjects using a topic or cross-curricular approach. Maths and English are mainly taught as separate subjects but creative links are made where possible. A high priority is attached to the development and application of the basic skills of literacy and numeracy. Other subjects which tend to be taught separately include Science, Computing, PSHE and PE.

Art and Design, Design and Technology, Geography, History and Music are taught in a block formation. Each subject is allocated 7 weeks throughout the school year and broken down into 2 x 2-week blocks and 1 x 3-week block. This approach allows for great exploration of subject specific skills and aims to ensure appropriate coverage of each. These blocks can be arranged to cover various topics which have a theme that runs through them, e.g. 'Houses' or 'The Romans'.

The times allocated to teaching all the subjects of the Curriculum are approximately 24 hours and 15 minutes per week.