We provide a positive, stimulating and caring learning environment where every individual is valued and respected and where every child matters. All children have talents and abilities to celebrate, and a part of our role is to help them discover and develop these.

‘Imagine with all your mind...Believe with all your heart...Achieve with all your might...Aim high and Be the best that you Can Be!’

At Temple Normanton Academy we aim is to provide rich and vibrant opportunities which draw upon meaningful real-life experiences and provide our children with the cultural capital to succeed in life.

The curriculum is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all children. It provides opportunities for children to develop as independent, confident and successful learners, with high aspirations for their future, who know how to make a positive contribution to their community and the wider society. The curriculum is coherently sequenced so that the children build on prior learning whilst ensuring the progression of knowledge and skills is extended, year upon year. It incorporates the key skills set out in the National Curriculum (2014) and key drivers identified to stimulate the pupils’ interests and to enable them to successfully succeed in later life.  The key drivers embedded and threaded through our curriculum are: Love Reading; World Citizens; Be Aspirational. 

A love for reading is fostered all through Temple Normanton Junior Academy and encouraged in all aspects of school life.  As well as teaching the skills of reading, a range of inspirational and capturing books are used in every classroom. Reading will be used to research new ideas and make links between existing and future knowledge.  Reading will be taught phonically by highly-skilled phonics experts from FS1 to Y2. Fluency, comprehension and vocabulary development will be taught in KS2 through reading age appropriate texts.