Curriculum

Vision

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.

 

• By curriculum we mean any aspect of the school’s work that develops children’s knowledge, skills and understanding. This includes:

  • Lessons, group and individual intervention sessions including academic as well as personal and social, home learning
  • Assemblies, workshops, visitors ,special theme days, off –site visits
  • Enterprise opportunities – each year group will undertake an enterprise project linked to their learning

  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:

  • We want our children to understand the factors that affect their physical skills, self – esteem and emotional well-being so that they are able to recognise the importance of pursuing a healthy lifestyle and develop coping strategies to keep themselves safe and healthy
  • We need to enable our children to develop self - awareness in order to take more responsibility for their decisions and actions and minimise over reliance on adults

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Early Years Foundation Stage

The staff deliver a framework called 'Early Years outcomes’ and ‘Early Learning Goals’. The focus is on three prime areas of learning:

• Communication and language
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development

and four specific areas of learning:

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts and design

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.

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Year 1 and beyond

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.

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The Foundation Curriculum: Cross – Curricular Learning (CCL)

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

Year 1 Holidays Day and Night Explorers Plants and Animals Buildings	Year 2 Celebrations Dressing Up Transport Where we live	Year 3 All around the world Dinosaurs Vikings Chocolate	Year 4 Rainforests Monarchs Romans Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Year 5 Through the ages Moving people Ancient Greece Mission to Mars Building a Village	Year 6 Vacations Local history Ancient Civilisations

Documents

CCL Whole school overview

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Reading

Please follow this link to see how reading is taught at Woodhouse

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Curriculum by Year Group

Y6 Curriculum Overview Y5 Curriculum Overview Y4 Curriculum Overview Y3 Curriculum Overview Y2 Curriculum Overview Y1 Curriculum Overview Reception – Enquiry Learning – Autumn 1 Overview Reception Enquiry Learning Yearly Overview

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Subjects

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