At Woodhouse Primary School we aim to provide a welcoming, safe and caring environment where everybody is encouraged and enabled to become successful, resilient and confident learners. We have high expectations and work collaboratively enabling our pupils to have a good understanding of the world in which they are growing up. We encourage our pupils to think for themselves and respect others, thus enabling them to build on their growing knowledge and be responsible, self-assured citizens.
Each half term, the curriculum focus links to one of the six school aims: Be United, Be Creative, Be Bold, Be Safe, Be Healthy and Be Caring.
To celebrate our social and cultural diversity so that everyone feels valued and respected
To offer a curriculum which is relevant and creative; promoting high quality learning which challenges and develops all our pupils’ talents and gifts enabling them to reach their full potential
To provide learning experiences, both inside and outside the classroom, which promote and develop pupils’ independence and resilience
To provide a caring, secure and nurturing environment where all can learn, work or play with confidence
To provide opportunities for pupils to develop healthy lifestyles and thereby promote physical, spiritual and emotional well – being
To respect and value ourselves and others in the community by displaying positive attitudes, pride in our school, appreciation of each other and challenging negative influences and behaviour
By curriculum we mean any aspect of the school’s work that develops children’s knowledge, skills and understanding. This includes:
In addition to covering the National Curriculum, our curriculum aims to address issues which are pertinent to Woodhouse and develop the cultural capital of our pupils:
I love school because I learn so much and it’s great fun”
At Woodhouse, safeguarding our pupils remains highly important and the introduction of home learning and remote teaching brings with it greater challenges. Children will increasingly be using social networks to reach out to others and with that there will be an increased risk to fake news and online harms including grooming, radicalisation, exploitation, and bullying. All these issues could impact on their mental health and well-being. This is a time when many young people will be vulnerable and unfortunately, the potential for exploitation will be at its highest.
The UK Safer internet Centre has identified the following online risk categories;
Please be aware that there is the potential increase of fake/poor quality organisations offering online learning to families with young people.
Continue to talk to your children about their online activity. The following websites offer a wealth of information and advice about keeping children safe online
Thinkuknow is the education programme from the National Crime Agency's CEOP command. Thinkuknow aims to empowers children and young people aged 5-17 to identify the risks they may face online and know where they can go for support.
Offers resources for pupils, parents and professionals.
Appropriate for: All
Childline has updated its Coronavirus webpage to include tips for children and young people on coping at home during lockdown.
The advice includes the top 10 tips to help children cope during lockdown and great advice for children who are feeling worried or anxious about their current situation.
Remember how to access online activities safely and look after yourselves and others. Have a look at these websites:
Childline is a free 24-hour counselling service for children and young people up to their 19th birthday in the United Kingdom provided by the NSPCC. Childline deals with any issue which causes distress or concern, common issues dealt with include child abuse, bullying, mental illness, parental separation or divorce, and other issues.
Thinkuknow is the education programme from the National Crime Agency's CEOP command. Thinkuknow aims to empowers children and young people aged 5-17 to identify the risks they may face online and know where they can go for support.
Offers resources for pupils, parents and professionals.
Appropriate for: All
Childline has updated its Coronavirus webpage to include tips for children and young people on coping at home during lockdown.
The advice includes the top 10 tips to help children cope during lockdown and great advice for children who are feeling worried or anxious about their current situation.
01.06.20 Week 7 Woodhouse Home Learning.pdf Science investigation - BLAST OFF!.pdf Purple Mash Game Design Competition.pdf
Thinkuknow is the education programme from the National Crime Agency's CEOP command. Thinkuknow aims to empowers children and young people aged 5-17 to identify the risks they may face online and know where they can go for support.
Offers resources for pupils, parents and professionals.
Appropriate for: All
Secure online learning space for all pupils.
Appropriate for: All
*This site requires the pupils to know their login
Pupils can learn key programming skills while playing 4 different Minecraft challenges.
Appropriate for: KS2
Learn the basics of programming by helping Elsa and Anna skate lots of wonderful shapes.
Appropriate for: KS1 & Lower KS2
KS2 children are all familiar with TT Rockstars and have their own personal login. Pupils can work independently or compete against each other – a great way to interact.
Appropriate for: KS2
*This site requires pupils to login.
With a combination of independent and collaborative learning activities, the home learning books provide a great opportunity for parents to learn with their children.
Appropriate for: All
You have been sent a personal log in for your child. Teachers have uploaded appropriate activities for their year group for subjects across the curriculum – these are called ‘2Dos.’ Pupils will also be able to access many different games. Have fun exploring!
Appropriate for: All
*This site requires the pupils to know their login
BBC Bitesize has hundreds of resources for both key stages and all areas of the curriculum. It’s easy to use, the children are familiar with it and it allows them to practise their basic skills in a fun way.
Appropriate for: All
This subscription service used by Woodhouse is offering a free premium service for educators, parents and children to use whilst schools are closed. There are many worksheets, PowerPoints, interactive games and e-books to help with all areas of learning.
Appropriate for: All
* This site requires a new free account, use code: UKTWINKLHELPS
You can download free, cross curricular activity packs on this website. Some of them have links to child friendly websites that allow children to research before they complete the tasks set.
There are also some learning activities that you can do at home or in the garden e.g. make a bird feeder, read a book under a tree, use recycled materials to make a sculpture.
We are told that if you sign up to the weekly newsletter, you will be sent free resources each week.
Appropriate for: Y1+
The BBC teach website has got many videos and activities for pupils of all ages including animations of traditional tales, quizzes and teaching videos.
The BBC have also mentioned that they will be putting daily lessons on their websites for each year group.
Appropriate for: All
At Woodhouse, we use White Rose Maths resources regularly in our maths teaching. They have created short videos/lessons with related worksheets and answer sheets.
Appropriate for: All
Top Marks is a website that we use regularly at Woodhouse. It has many interactive games for a wide range of subjects. A popular game we use in school is ‘Daily 10’ maths game.
Appropriate for: All
BBC Live lessons cover a range of subjects including English, Maths, Science and PSHCE. There are teacher guides available as well as a range of activity sheets.
Appropriate for: All
Children can log in using their TT Rockstars login. This website is free until 27th April and has a range of games and challenges that children can complete whilst going over different maths objectives.
Appropriate for: Y2, Lower KS2
*This site requires pupils to login. The logins are exactly the same at the TT Rock Star accounts.
This websites has a range of maths games and quizzes for children and also information and guidance for parents.
Appropriate for: EYFS, KS1
This website has free teaching videos, worksheets and answers with differing levels of difficulty! It also has handy ‘5 a day’ mental maths resources that would be good to keep the children ticking over with their key skills.
Appropriate for: KS2
Newsround is a great way for children to access the news daily. It is child friendly and also often has advice for children if they are worrying about the news.
Appropriate for: KS2
It is child friendly and also often has advice for children if they are worrying about the news. There is currently a video to support children who are worrying about Coronavirus.
Appropriate for: KS2
This website is a firm favourite in KS1 PE lessons at Woodhouse. It has many yoga videos to choose from and many are told through widely loved stories e.g. Frozen, Harry Potter. Parents – feel free to join in!
Appropriate for: EYFS, KS1 & Lower KS2
Another firm favourite at Woodhouse, Go Noodle has lots of yoga, Zumba and general dance videos.
Appropriate for: All
Keep fit with Joe Wicks every day at 9am! The videos will be saved on his YouTube channel if you’d like to have a go at a different time.
Appropriate for: All
Phonics Play have made all of their resources free to support parents and children during school closures.
Appropriate for: EYFS, KS1
* Please signing in with the following details:
Username: march20
Password: home
There are lots of games for each phonics phase on this website. Not all of them are free but many of them are!
Appropriate for: EYFS, KS1
Listen to stories read by astronauts on the International Space Station! Fascinating stuff!
This website has hundreds of free eBooks that your children will recognise from school – from Biff, Chip and Kipper to Project X! There are also Maths activities and many games to choose from.
You will need to complete a parent sign up but it is free.
9.00am - PE with Joe Wicks
10.00am - Maths with Carol Vorderman
11.00am - English with David Walliams
12.00pm - Lunch (cooking with Jamie Oliver)
1.00pm - Music with Myleene Klass
1.30pm - Dance with Darcey Bussel
2.00pm - History with Dan Snow (free for 30-days)
4.00pm - Home Economics with Theo Michaels (Mon/Wed/Fri)
The story follows the intriguing Violet and her classmates as they prepare for Pet Day at school. As the children excitedly share stories about different types of pets in the run-up to the day, Violet interrupts with wild claims about her mysterious pet, Sid. But is Sid really the scary monster Violet says he is?
* This site requires an account, we suggest you login first before following the link to access the resource. You will find the instruction and code for the free account under the Home Learning Links
Maths Easter challenge – this challenge is mainly for UKS2 but LKS2 could always give some parts of it a good go particularly if they have older siblings to work with.
Science task – research the life cycle of an egg and create a poster to show/ explain this.
Science – NATURE BINGO – adult to create a bingo board with different things which can be found in the garden (leaves, beetles, small pebble, black bird) and the children have to try and find as many as they can. If the children are not able to get out in the garden or do not have a garden, they can do this using things which can be found in the house.
PE - Create an Easter egg/ chocolate hunt in the garden or around the house.
Geography – Research which countries will be celebrating Easter and how?
RE – Why do we celebrate Easter? Why do we have chocolate eggs at Easter?
English – How many words can you make using the letters in EASTER SUNDAY?
Or SPRING TIME for those who don’t celebrate Easter.
English – Create an acrostic poem using HAPPY EASTER or HAPPY SPRING for those who don’t celebrate Easter.
Decorate an Easter egg or spring picture and stick it in your window so people can have an Easter egg hunt when they go for their house of exercise a day.
Twinkl have a selection of Easter colouring, wordsearches and other activities – suitable for chn of all ages.
Decorating hard boiled eggs using paint and other materials and upload these to their year group blog.
Easy Easter crafts which featured on ‘This Morning’
These can be decorated as Easter or can be decorated in other ways for those children who don’t celebrate Easter.
Whyeaster.com is a good website to teach children all about Easter. The Easter story and the different traditions surrounding it.
Woodhouse PSCHE.docx History Home Learning.docx 30.3.20 Week 1 Woodhouse Home Learning Overview.pdf
The staff deliver a framework called 'Early Years outcomes’ and ‘Early Learning Goals’. The focus is on three prime areas of learning:
and four specific areas of learning:
Observations are carried out continually to monitor each child’s progress throughout the course of the year and the staff compile a wealth of information on each child to reflect their ‘Learning Journey’ throughout their reception year. This is shared at our parent consultation meetings and is available for parents to view online.
Once our children move into Year 1 they begin the transition to the National Curriculum. This consists of the core subjects of English, Maths, Science and Computing. There are also foundation subjects included in the curriculum: Art and Design, Design and Technology, Geography, History, French (KS2 only), Music and Physical Education. The school follows the RE syllabus recommended by the Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (see below). A bespoke PSCHE curriculum has been developed in response to promoting our pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development and links closely to the school’s values. Each year group learns about pertinent issues linking to the following:
Be United, Be Creative, Be Safe, Be Caring, Be Bold and Be Healthy
Within the SMSC element of the curriculum, and covertly across many areas of school, we seek to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
We deliver a curriculum built on theme - based learning to enthuse and engage our children. This curriculum includes lots of shared talk and opportunities to carry out research. Opportunities to make links are maximised and cross-curricular learning (CCL) is an intrinsic part of provision for all year groups.
We aim to provide a curriculum which is rich and broad and enables our pupils to achieve high standards, both academically and socially. We want our children to enjoy their learning; develop enquiring minds, develop the personal qualities they need to be good citizens of the world, and develop a sense of their own nationality and culture, at the same time developing a profound respect for the nationalities and cultures of others. More information on the content of the curriculum is detailed on this website below by subject and year group.
Curriculum Overview of CCL topics 2019-20
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Year 1 Holidays Day and Night Explorers Plants and Animals Buildings
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Year 2 Celebrations Dressing Up Transport Where we live
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Year 3 All around the world Dinosaurs Vikings Chocolate
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Year 4 Rainforests Monarchs Romans Volcanoes and Earthquakes
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Year 5 Through the ages Moving people Ancient Greece Mission to Mars Building a Village |
Year 6 Vacations Local history Ancient Civilisations
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