At Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery School, we provide a skills led creative curriculum. This ensures continuity of progression whilst providing lessons that stimulate and engage pupils. We adopt a cross-curricular approach enabling pupils to apply their skills from one subject to another. We make full use of IT to support learning; we have two computer suites, laptops and iPads. There is also an interactive whiteboard and computers in every classroom.

At the centre of our teaching is a framework of reading, writing and mathematics. These subjects are taught daily through a mixture of class, group and individual activities. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum for our children in Nursery and Reception and we follow the National Curriculum for children in Key stages One and Two.

The Early Years curriculum comprises of three Prime areas; Communication and Language, Personal and Social development, and Physical development. The four Specific areas of learning are; Expressive Arts and Design, Literacy, Mathematics and Understanding of the World. Our Foundation staff team work together to plan opportunities for children to make progress in all these areas through a topic led approach.

The National Curriculum comprises of: English, mathematics, science, history, geography, music, art and design, design and technology, computing and physical education. From Year Three upwards we also teach religious education and relationship and health education plus we offer Foreign Language lessons. At present, we teach French in Years 3 and 4 with children being given the opportunity to learn Spanish in Years 5 and 6. Our teachers work together to plan lessons tailored to meet the individual needs of each pupil, ensuring progress is made in every lesson.