St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Learn to love, love to learn
At St. Bernadette's Catholic School you will find us caring, hardworking and co-operative. We follow the ways of Jesus using our talents and gifts to make our school special. We show respect to all and welcome you.
Head Teacher: Angela Cowings
Hob Moor Road, Yardley, Birmingham, B25 8QL
0121 783 7232
Topic
At St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School, we believe in providing an education rich in wonder, creativity, and memorable experiences. Our topic-based curriculum is designed to inspire curiosity, deepen understanding, and foster a lifelong love of learning.
Each term, History, Geography, Art, and Design & Technology are taught through a shared topic theme within each year band. This cross-curricular approach allows pupils to make meaningful connections between subjects, applying their knowledge and skills in a coherent and purposeful way.
By integrating these subjects into a single termly theme, children not only gain key skills in each discipline but also develop a deeper and more connected understanding of the world around them. This approach supports children in seeing the relevance of their learning and nurtures their natural curiosity and creativity.
It is our hope that this rich and engaging curriculum approach helps every child to flourish, both academically and personally, as they learn to love and love to learn.
Art
Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. Our art and design education engages, inspires and challenges our pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
Design and Technology
Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, our pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.
History
Our history provision helps our pupils to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It inspires our pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past and helps them to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
Geography
Our geography lessons equip our pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with developing a deeper understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
What do our children say about topic at St Bernadette’s School?
“We got to make lots and lots of stuff. We even got to do some painting!”
Parent: “Seeing our children on the trip was amazing. Their knowledge showed what good teachers they have.”
“The trip was very good. We learnt lots.”
“We loved working together.”
“Today is going to be the best day. It’s topic.”
“This week felt like a once in a lifetime opportunity. We did so much that we don’t normally get a chance to do and we loved it.”
