Each year groups' termly theme/topic has an open-ended enquiry question to spark the children's interest. The question is explored with the pupils to gather their current understanding of the theme. The theme/topic is then enriched and launched through 'hook' days that immerse the pupils in the theme and linked text. This approach brings the learning to life and ignites the pupils' curiosity around a theme. Staff can also see the knowledge the children already have (from their own life experience or previous learning in school) so they can pitch the learning appropriately and build on from this point. The overall aim is for excited, active and engaged learners with a willingness and ability to share what they know and a thirst to find out more.

Visitors have a valuable role to play. They deliver talks, assemblies, workshops and full day activities across a wide range of topics, giving our children access to outside experiences and expertise. Visitors can provide a link with the wider community, the children have the opportunity to work alongside artists, emergency service professionals, musicians and others.

As a school, we offer our children opportunities to participate in extra-curricular activities during at the start of the day, lunchtime or after school. Due to limited space in school, after school clubs are limited to clubs that can be held in a classroom as our school hall is in use for the After School Club.

Throughout the school year, we offer a variety of clubs, such as cooking, crafts, yoga, recorders, Lego, gardening, story explorers and library club. These usually run for a term by members of staff.  We also offer Rock Steady Music, which runs throughout the school year. They perform a concert three times a year to the whole school.  Happy Karen offers a very popular Play and Perform after school club throughout the school year.

Trips include the annual year group trip in the summer term, year or class visits to local places of worship (churches, temples and mosques), walks around the local area, library visits, sporting events and competitions etc. 

We use our Sports Funding to provide additional off-site sports experiences for our children, such as team building activities, archery, survival skills day, which included map reading, a foraging walk, outdoor safety and den building, indoor rock climbing, rugby at Northampton Saints, orienteering, low ropes and night line. We also bought into a local sports partnership, which enables us to participate in different sports as part of the local PE and Games competitions with other schools. These have included kurling, cricket, athletics, hockey, tennis, futsal and gymnastics.

Throughout the school year, we hold two performances for the parents, carers, other family members and the community.  All our children participate in both the Christmas Celebration at the United Reformed Church and our Families Celebration held in March. Our Year 2 children take part in a leavers' performance for their parents and carers, where they have the chance to sing, perform and read aloud. 

Members of our School Council and children from Years 1 and 2 visit two local care homes, Wendleberrie House and Park House Care Home, to sing carols to the residents.

Across the year, themed days/weeks are planned into the school timetable. These include Anti-bullying Week, World Book Day, Walk to School week and Safer Internet Day