Our Curriculum
At Godalming Junior School we believe that the children should be exposed to a genuinely bespoke curriculum that engages, challenges and stimulates ALL children underpinned by our passion for creating a LANGUAGE RICH environment where children access reading across the curriculum. We also expose children to learn about CORE VALUES which are ALIVE throughout the school.
Curriculum INTENT
It is the schools intent to ensure the curriculum is ambitious, creative and rich built on HIGH QUALITY TEXTS and an instilling CORE VALUES at every opportunity. We believe that though success in English and Maths are integral to education, we believe ALL subjects form a fundamental part of the learning journey for children at Godalming Junior School. We have unique designated learning areas for Music, Art and DT, PE and Food Technology which further emphasises the importance of the children accessing the full breadth of the primary curriculum. Our PSHE curriculum is a significant strength of the school and further provides the children with key life skills and is closely aligned to our CORE VALUES. A robust, Rights Respecting and values based approach to our PSHE curriculum ensures that, along with other curricular areas, the school prepares the children extremely well for life outside the school gates and for the next chapter in their education. The formal subjects we teach are:
English
Maths
Science
Computing
The Arts (including Music, Art, DT and Drama)
Humanities (including Geography, History and RE)
MFL (French and Spanish)
Music
PE
PSHE
Curriculum IMPLEMENTATION
The curriculum is taught by highly skilled, flexible, creative and committed staff who put a huge amount of effort and time to ensure ALL areas of the curriculum are taught to a high standard, with a strong focus on the National Curriculum PURPOSE OF STUDY and the school's PROGRESSION OF SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE plan. We also pride ourselves on the outstanding learning behaviours of our children who readily contribute and play an active role in their learning which is nurtured by the adults in the school. Alongside our curriculum we run our '10richment' programme of theme weeks throughout the year. Introduced in 2018, our 10 theme weeks develop further the soft skills in the children and expose them to the 'hidden' curriculum. This has proven to be effective and successful in exposing the children to the wider world and promotes an appreciation to the extraordinary diversity of the world around us and it's people. This year our theme weeks are:
POETRY WEEK - (29th September - 3rd October coinciding with National Poetry Day)
HEALTHY WEEK - (6th - 10th October - coinciding with World Mental Health Day)
REMEMBRANCE WEEK - (10th - 14th November coinciding with Armistice Day)
HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK - (8th - 12th December coinciding with Human Rights Day)
HERO WEEK - (19th - 23rd January coinciding with Martin Luther King Day)
BOOK WEEK - (2nd - 6th March coinciding with World Book Day)
STEM WEEK - (9th - 13th March coinciding with British Science Week)
EARTH WEEK - (16th - 20th March coinciding with Earth Hour)
INTERNATIONAL WEEK - (1st - 5th June)
ARTS WEEK - (6th - 10th July coinciding with G-Fest Talent Show and Y6 Production)
These weeks encourage staff to bring areas of the curriculum to life by any means they feel is appropriate and purposeful. This may involve trips or inviting visitors into school and being creative by linking these themes to areas of their curriculum.
Curriculum IMPACT
We regularly assess the impact of our curriculum by again, looking at books, monitoring planning and talking to the children about their learning. The children are very positive about their school.
Pupil Survey 2025
I enjoy school - 95% responded all or most of the time!
Teachers help me do my best - 90% responded all or most of the time!
I enjoy learning at school - 95% responded all or most of the time!
Our 10richment weeks play a key part in our wider INCLUSIVE curriculum - 96% agreed
Senior Leaders meet regularly to discuss curriculum matters, where strengths lie and where improvements need to be made. We feel the broad curriculum and the 10richment programme in place at Godalming Junior School provides the children with a comprehensive learning experience so that they learn to LOVE the people around them and treat each other with respect, LIVE healthy lives and develop a thirst and hunger to LEARN and be life-long learners.
Ofsted Parent View 2025 Outcomes - 40responses as 25.11.25
My child is happy at school - 100% agree+
My child feels safe at school - 100% agree+
The school makes sure its pupils are well behaved - 93% agree+
I would recommend this school to another parent - 100%
More information on Our Curriculum Offer can be found in the Teaching and Learning section on this website here.