“Pupils develop skills, knowledge and understanding across a wide range of academic subjects and co-curricular activities.”
— ISI Report, 2024
At the heart of Heritage’s academic approach is the belief that engagement with our knowledge-rich curriculum makes a vital contribution to pupils’ intellectual, moral and spiritual formation and to their ability to realise their potential, and, therefore, to the quality of their lives.
In practice, this means learning at Heritage looks different to learning in other schools. An absence of screens is immediately noticeable, but the differences go much further. The Heritage day is structured to enable the teaching of a greater variety of subjects, children are actively engaged in lessons rather than staring at an interactive white board or completing worksheets, classroom aesthetics are intentionally calm helping create a purposeful environment, and learning goes way beyond the school walls with the whole of Cambridge acting as an extension to the classroom.
Heritage School’s curriculum and way of teaching is inspired by the nineteenth century Christian educationalist Charlotte Mason who believed that children’s minds should be fed with ‘an abundant feast laid on a table, not dull, starchy tapioca’.
We have designed a distinctive curriculum bursting with rich content and inspiring ideas that helps pupils to make connections across subjects, rather than different topics existing in isolation.
The wide-ranging nature of our curriculum fires pupils’ creative thinking and constantly sparks their curiosity. We have found that the more children know the more deeply they think and the more creative they become. The rich get richer. Our curriculum gives deep, deep wells of knowledge that continually feed thirsty minds. This is the secret to the enjoyment of learning.
Heritage School’s curriculum and way of teaching is inspired by the nineteenth century Christian educationalist Charlotte Mason who believed that children’s minds should be fed with ‘an abundant feast laid on a table, not dull, starchy tapioca’.
We have designed a distinctive curriculum bursting with rich content and inspiring ideas that helps pupils to make connections across subjects, rather than different topics existing in isolation.
The wide-ranging nature of our curriculum fires pupils’ creative thinking and constantly sparks their curiosity. We have found that the more children know the more deeply they think and the more creative they become. The rich get richer. Our curriculum gives deep, deep wells of knowledge that continually feed thirsty minds. This is the secret to the enjoyment of learning.
Learning at Heritage switches brains on. Pupils engage with our curriculum in an active way, listening, synthesising, sequencing, re-articulating and owning their work. From their earliest years pupils are immersed in books, spotting wildlife on regular nature walks, studying intricate details of paintings, writing with fountain pens, reading novels together, learning poems by heart, making music and building their own compendiums of history as they go through the school.
Learning at Heritage switches brains on. Pupils engage with our curriculum in an active way, listening, synthesising, sequencing, re-articulating and owning their work. From their earliest years pupils are immersed in books, spotting wildlife on regular nature walks, studying intricate details of paintings, writing with fountain pens, reading novels together, learning poems by heart, making music and building their own compendiums of history as they go through the school.
