The curriculum at Livingstone Academy is grounded in the strongest available evidence about how students learn and retain knowledge in the long term. We focus in particular on research from cognitive science. Cognitive science suggests that students ought to learn the concepts that come up repeatedly. These are the unifying ideas of each discipline.
Planning a curriculum, which draws the threads between the overarching ideas and the detail, is the key to unlock the present distance between what is taught and what is remembered. We need to find the stories in the curriculum, we need to think about how we ensure that the information moves from the short-term into the long-term memory and we need to provide opportunities for students to revisit the key concepts.
Our Curriculum Overview documents can be accessed by clicking on the year groups below. Each year group overview contains links to our medium term planning.
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11