One of the ways in which we achieve this is by organising our curriculum into “projects” e.g Water, Farming, Communication, rather than by discrete subject. Each project is then taught following the biblical world-narrative of creation / fall / redemption, covers the raw material you would expect to find in most UK curricula, including world history, geography, science, citizenship, art and drama to name a few!
Classes work through these projects at a rate of 2-4 per year. Designed within each project are trips to local places of interest, so that children can be always connecting what they are learning at school with the real world, and meeting the adults who live and work around them.
Over Covenant’s now 40+ year history, the projects have been regularly improved, and each builds on the skills, knowledge and sense of personal responsibility gained in the one before. For instance, while over two years our youngest class discovers what is in the world around them, our middle class explores the place of humankind in the world, and our senior class begins to consider their own personal place in the world.
So we are pleased to deliver a curriculum that is biblically-based, sensible and well-connected both within itself and to real life, and actively embraces the arts, outside trips, outdoor learning and practical skills.