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The Cornerstones Curriculum

The Cornerstones Curriculum is a high-quality curriculum that includes over 100 subject-driven, resourced projects from Nursery to Year 6. It follows a clear knowledge and skills framework and is expertly sequenced and interconnected. With everything housed on our cutting edge Maestro platform, the curriculum can be adapted to meet the needs of your school.

Broad and balanced
Knowledge and skills rich
Clear pedagogy and sequence

sequenced - connected - inspiring

What's different about the Cornerstones Curriculum?

Ambitious, purposeful learning with children at the heart.

Based on proven pedagogy

The Cornerstones Curriculum is underpinned by a child-focused four stage pedagogy: Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express. With this pedagogy at its heart, the curriculum supports children's learning, motivation and wellbeing.

Sequenced and connected

The curriculum projects are carefully sequenced and interconnected to support children’s learning over time. From high level concepts to granular knowledge and skills objectives, this level of curriculum sequencing offers you unrivalled coherence.

Inspiring projects

We've designed the Cornerstones projects to inspire teachers to teach and children to learn. Supported by literacy packs and rich in knowledge and skills, these diverse, purposeful topics will see engagement and impact soar in your school.

Coverage and progression

The curriculum follows a robust skills and knowledge framework that builds upon national curriculum programmes of study. This provides clear subject endpoints for concepts, aspects, knowledge and skills, to help children make progress.

Make it yours

Content is easy to adapt to suit your children – simply tweak the curriculum using Curriculum Maestro’s editing tools. Tailor projects, objectives and lessons to suit your children’s interests and needs at the click of a few buttons, saving unimaginable amounts of time.

Quality resources

High-quality teaching resources make a real difference. We research and design every resource to help you deliver impactful, engaging lessons. From videos to knowledge organisers, vocabulary-rich reading texts to activity packs, you won’t find resources quite like them.

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Knowledge and skills rich
Broad, balanced and ambitous
Clear pedagogy and sequence

Curriculum coverage like you’ve never seen it before.

Vicky Musson, Director of Education, Witney

Cornerstones has been an amazing resource for our school community. It has helped to transform the engagement of our children and parents. Everyone is talking about their learning, and there is a real buzz around the school.

Ann Wheeler, Headteacher, Egham

Our recent Ofsted focused on the curriculum and, as an existing Cornerstones school, we felt confident. Our SATs are of a very high standard and I felt that we were possibly selected six months early as they thought that we had a restricted curriculum. They soon saw that we didn't, and that our curriculum was broad and vibrant.

Damien Groak, Headteacher, Hartlepool

connected - coherent - complete

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England

Wales

Nursery

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Nursery
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

Nursery

Explore our engaging projects for Nursery children.

Reception

Explore our engaging projects for Reception children.

Year 1

Explore our engaging Year 1 projects.

Year 2

Explore our engaging Year 2 projects.

Year 3

Explore our engaging Year 3 projects.

Year 4

Explore our engaging Year 4 projects.

Year 5

Explore our engaging Year 5 projects.

Year 6

Explore our engaging Year 6 projects.

Nursery

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Nursery
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

Nursery

Take a closer look at all of our Nursery projects.

Reception

Take a closer look at all of our Reception projects.

Year 1

Take a closer look at all of our Year 1 projects.

Year 2

Take a closer look at all of our Year 2 projects.

Year 3

Take a closer look at all of our Year 3 projects.

Year 4

Take a closer look at all of our Year 4 projects.

Year 5

Take a closer look at all of our Year 5 projects.

Year 6

Take a closer look at all of our Year 6 projects.

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Helping you get the best from your curriculum

Read our latest blog posts to inform your curriculum development.

Explore all blog articles, podcast and magazine publications.

Cornerstones Curriculum 22: a fully sequenced and interconnected primary curriculum

Curriculum

Ofsted

Science

05th July 2021

Knowledge-rich curriculum projects from Cornerstones

Curriculum

26th April 2021

Take your maths provision to the next level using White Rose Maths on Curriculum Maestro

Maths

29th January 2021

Six Steps of Curriculum Design

Curriculum

Ofsted

15th July 2021

How connected is your curriculum?

Curriculum

04th July 2020

Pedagogy: is yours distinct from your curriculum?

Curriculum

08th July 2020

Maestro

Helping you to bring your curriculum to life

Turn your curriculum vision into reality with Maestro, our smart online platform. Access the sequenced curriculum projects and resources you need, monitor live curriculum progression and track coverage at the click of a few buttons. Maestro is a game changer for curriculum.

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Includes the Cornerstones Curriculum

Curriculum Maestro is a smart online platform that helps you design, teach, assess and lead an outstanding primary curriculum, all from one place.

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Cwricwlwm Maestro

Develop an exceptional Welsh Curriculum

Cwricwlwm Maestro is a smart online platform that helps you to design, teach, assess and lead your bespoke curriculum for Wales.

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10/12/2021

We are in a much better place with CM than with our old curriculum. We will be making it more bespoke in the second year.

Conrad Fox – Headteacher, Hunmanby Primary School, England

16/11/2021

I have used Cornerstones from its first launch. The product has been refined over time as it is driven by feedback from schools and teachers delivering the content. The company is also responsive to a school's needs.

Lindsey Wain – Deputy headteacher, Hartburn Primary School, England

04/11/2021

Maestro is a real time saver, particularly for leadership teams and subject leaders. There is a wealth of information and resources which can be used and adapted by creative skills teachers. The way the curriculum is mapped is excellent and was commented on in a very recent Ofsted inspection.

Charlotte Gibbins – Thurlstone Primary School, England

17/09/2021

I have recommended and told many other schools and school staff about it. I would always though suggest that they need to ensure it is right for their school setting and the needs of their staff and pupils.

Kathryn – Teacher, Langton Primary School

20/01/2021

It has been a revelation. Staff are finding their way through it and if we have any questions, the support from Cornerstones is amazing. We always get answers to our questions. It is now our one-stop-shop for curriculum with linked up thinking and approach through an intuitive and user-friendly system.

Moira Cross – Executive head, Dordon Primary School