Our pedagogy
We’re primary through and through. That’s why we ensure that our curriculum is based on a pedagogy that fully promotes the unique and wonderful nature of the primary child.
Our mission is to preserve and promote the unique and wonderful qualities of the primary child. We resist the movement to introduce secondary teaching techniques within primary education.
Our unique approach and four-stage pedagogy provide a teaching and learning structure across all our curriculum projects. Inspired by the values of the Reggio Emilia Approach ™ and influenced by developments in cognitive research, our four-stage pedagogy will help your school build industrious and inventive learners.
The Engage Stage
The Develop Stage
The Innovate Stage
The Express Stage
“Cornerstones provided a great platform for us to build our new wider curriculum. It had a large enough content base for us to then cut and trim until we had the curriculum that we knew was right for our school. And Ofsted loved it too!”
Adam Berridge, Deputy Head of Primary
St Mary Magdalene Academy