At Belleville Wix Academy we are very proud of our curriculum offer.  We believe we offer an excellent broad and balanced curriculum based on the National Curriculum, with a strong, daily focus on the core subject areas of reading, writing and mathematics. As part of the Q1E Trust, our teaching staff have worked with staff across all four schools to design our wonderful curriculum, as described below.

Our L.E.A.R.N. curriculum approach

Our curriculum is designed with excellence and equality at the core of all we do. Above is our curriculum statement, which was developed together with the other schools in our trust.  

We firmly believe that "the quality of an education system (or a school) cannot exceed the quality of its teachers" and this principle is key to our school's approach. We invest significantly in recruiting, retaining and developing high quality teaching staff so that all learning in all our lessons is excellent for all pupils.

Our learning approach, our learning environments and our curriculum are organised with the pupils at the centre, so their experience at Belleville Wix Academy (BWA) is of a rich, rewarding education where they achieve and succeed every day. 

BWA is a highly organised school, offering a carefully structured, broad and balanced curriculum. We keep an appropriate focus on the core subjects of English and Maths, whilst also ensuring that all pupils benefit from a rich and diverse range of topics. In this way we extend pupils's learning far beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum. Teachers work hard to ensure that the work is interesting, inspiring and challenging to all. Highly trained support staff provide additional classroom assistance throughout the school.

The explicit taught curriculum at BWA is broad, balanced and rich in experiences and is carefully designed to ensure all pupils experience a breadth of education built on principles of excellence and equality.  Knowing what excellence looks and feels like is critical and is what we use to inspire pupils. We have a high quality, relevant curriculum and use excellent resources and skilled teaching to challenge and inspire the learning of our pupils.  In addition to this, in all parts of school life, in lessons and beyond, our implicit curriculum is critical in ensuring personal values and positive learning attitudes are promoted alongside that of academic excellence and achievements.

We believe that our school aim and values are fulfilled within our curriculum in both the implicit and explicit elements, so our pupils develop their full potential in all aspects of their learning and personal development.

Curriculum Design

We place high value on the academic achievements and the importance of pupils to be literate and numerate to maximise their life chances beyond primary school.  Our curriculum is clearly structured to ensure every child is developing their core skills, experiencing a broad and rich curriculum and do so alongside building excellent personal, social and emotional skills. 

The breadth of skills and ambition for pupils is built into the curriculum with excellence our aim in all subjects.  The school builds experiences which will develop pupils’s skills and knowledge in all areas of learning incorporating the academic, physical, artistic, linguistic, scientific and technological.

Our subject-focussed curriculum sits within our implicit curriculum where our aims, and values and attitudes to learning permeate all we do.

Overlapping of skills and content ensures coherence in learning takes place where appropriate and relevant and for example computing may be using content from Geography work or poetry be inspired by work done in history.    Our local context in Battersea, London inspires many aspects of our curriculum as does the exciting, diverse community around and within our school.

Pupils have opportunities to learn through a wide range of educational visits and events, including a residential trip in Year 6. There is a shared drive to constantly review, improve and enrich our curriculum to ensure learning is relevant and exciting for all pupils. We have a relentless drive for excellence and equality, always seeking to improve the education we offer your pupils.  

We are very proud to offer our pupils high quality specialist subject provision through specialist teachers for PE, Dance, Music, Art, ICT and modern foreign languages. 

Early Years

Our Foundation Stage (nursery and reception) provides a stimulating environment which encourages independence and a real motivation to learn. Pupils quickly develop the independence and confidence to learn and interact with others. The classrooms and outdoor areas have excellent resources to promote learning. Early reading and writing skills are taught in an effective and engaging way and pupils achieve extremely well in all areas by the end of the Foundation Stage.

Our Bilingual Stream

We adhere to the same LEARN approach for teaching the English provision of our unique Bilingual Curriculum. If you would like to know more about the bilingual curriculum, please visit this page. 

If you would like more information about our curriculum, please contact the school office on admin@bellevillewix.q1e.org.uk or 0207 228 3055