Learning

The staff and governors at Marlborough have a commitment to provide a broad and balanced curriculum which fosters excellence and enjoyment and seeks to develop learners’ capacity for creative thinking and their ability to solve problems.

Personal, social and emotional development of our pupils remains at the heart of all learning and we also place a strong emphasis on the core skills of speaking and listening, reading, writing, mathematics and scientific understanding. Children are given regular opportunities to access learning activities using a range of information and communication technologies and to celebrate special events by performing to parents/carers and the wider community 

We encourage all teachers to provide meaningful learning activities which maintain high expectations, meet the needs of all the pupils, address a range of auditory, kinaesthetic and visual learning styles and use engaging themes through which cross-curricular links can be appropriately exploited.

Our curriculum is delivered through cross curricular themes to make the learning fun, purposeful and engaging for pupils and the staff delivering it.  There are exciting themes which are mainly driven by History, Geography and Science content e.g. Pirates, Wet and Wild, Conflict and Co-operation  to name but a few.  The deveolpment of our thematic curriculum has a real impact on our school enviromnent and the feedback from pupils, staff, parents, governors and Ofsted has been very postive. 

The learning opportunities offered at Marlborough are further enhanced by specialist teaching for music, PE and French and wide range of additional and extra curricular activities such as trips and visits to places of interests, residential school journeys, after school and lunchtime clubs and strong links with the community and local schools.  In addition our ‘Marlborough College’ initiative enables children to following their own learning paths by selecting from an extensive variety of courses.