At Chosen Kiddies International School, our curriculum is built around four vital global themes known as the Four Cs:

1. Communication
2. Culture
3. Conflict
4. Conservation

These themes guide our approach to education, encouraging children to think critically, act ethically, and grow holistically. Our curriculum is broad, balanced, inclusive, and integrated, ensuring depth, relevance, and purpose in all areas of learning.

 

Communication

We believe that communication is the root from which all learning stems, with listening and speaking forming the basis of growth and development. Our children experience challenges in communicating effectively so we need to make this a more central focus. As an accredited thinking school, we provide many opportunities for questioning, reasoning, and explaining. We set high expectations in oracy and our staff consistently model speaking in full sentences.

Communication is key to building relationships with our parents and this takes many varying forms, including newsletters and the class dojo.

We also have a thriving school council that allows our pupils to have their say. We encourage our pupils to have a voice and we value their opinions.

Culture

As part of our school values we believe that; ‘We are tolerant‘, ‘We respect others’, ‘We are individuals’ and so this curriculum allows these values to play an integral role in who we are.

It is important for our pupils to gain a wider understanding of the world and be able to question things and delve deeper into their interests.

Our culture is changing and moving towards more consistency across the whole school and we want to move forwards together. We are a ‘Growth Mindset’ school and so we are always excited to learn and develop. We want to challenge mindsets and help all stakeholders become more outward facing.

 

Conflict

As a school, our values that run through the school include ‘We have choices’ and ‘We have rules’. Therefore, the curriculum allows our pupils to encounter many learning opportunities that feed into our big drivers in school. Moreover, all pupils will also undoubtedly encounter conflict as part of everyday life. Learning to get along with others and resolving conflict is so important in terms of wellbeing. Being able to deal positively with confrontation on a personal level will stand pupils in good stead for adult life and help them to lead happier lives. This is very much linked to improved communication skills. Effective communication is vital to working positively through conflict and we want to help our pupils to learn how to disagree well. Having a developmental understanding of conflict and increasingly recognising the impact that conflict can have on relationships on a personal, local, national and international scale, we believe, will make a difference to their own choices.

Conservation

Chosen Kiddies is an eco-school and we are passionate about instilling the importance of conservation into our pupils. In the light of this, we feel that conservation is highly relevant as a focus for our pupils’ learning.

We can’t ignore conservation. We are custodians of the next generation’s future, and our pupils need to learn how to look after the planet in the future. We want them to problem-solve and work as stewards, locally as well as nationally and globally to leave a positive legacy.

 

We also encourage our pupils to have high aspirations by teaching them about human creativity and achievement through additional Competency Units about famous figures that focus on Creativity, Commitment, Courage and Community.

What does the curriculum cover?

We teach Curriculum Depth

Our curriculum focuses on common attributes that ensure the provision of a deep curriculum and that underpin our thematic units:-

• General Curriculum Guidance
  • Meaning and Relevance: Learning is connected to real-world contexts that matter to children.
  • Opportunities for Enquiry: Students are encouraged to explore, question, and investigate.
  • Critical, Creative, and Higher-Order Thinking: We develop learners who can analyze, evaluate, and innovate.
  • Integrated Learning: Subjects are linked through themes to provide coherence and cross-curricular connections.
  • Diverse Sources and Viewpoints: Children access learning from a variety of perspectives and media.
  • Authenticity: Learning leads to meaningful outcomes and real-world applications.