BELLS FARM JUNIOR & INFANT SCHOOL

We are a designated Children’s Centre which means that we offer a full range of services for children from birth to eleven years. Our services include a nursery, breakfast club, after school club and a holiday club.

Our partnerships are many and include, Kings Norton Education Action Zone, Baverstock Sports Partnership and The Real Link Extended Cluster.

At Bells Farm we continuously strive to ensure that everyone in our school is treated with respect and dignity. Each person in our school will be given fair and equal opportunity to develop their full potential with positive regard to gender, ethnicity, cultural and religious background, sexuality or disability.

We plan our curriculum in a series of modules and themed weeks. In the Foundation Stage we adopt an inter-disciplinary topic approach to curriculum planning. At Key Stage 1 and 2 the curriculum at our school places a greater emphasis on the core subjects and we teach these subjects separately. Foundation subjects are taught through a cross curricular approach.

The curriculum is all the planned activities that we organise in order to promote learning and personal growth and development. It includes not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, but also the range of extra-curricular activities that the school organises in order to enrich the experience of the children. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’, or what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave.

We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others while developing knowledge and skills, so that they achieve their true potential.

Our school curriculum is underpinned by Values Education. The value words we have adopted are an integral part of our curriculum and are the means by which the school achieves its objective of educating children in the knowledge, skills and understanding that they need in order to lead fulfilling lives.