The WLPS Curriculum

At Woodham Ley Primary School we are committed to providing our pupils with a vibrant, engaging and creative curriculum which incorporates all of the essential knowledge and skills to ensure success in every aspect of education and life. 

Our mission statement is:

We are committed to developing unique and ambitious children who make informed choices and are inspired to reach their greatest potential.

 

Our curriculum, therefore, is designed to be bespoke for our pupils and starts in EYFS and progresses purposefully through to Year 6

 

Our curriculum is designed to enable our pupils to be:

· Positive, confident, respectful, hardworking and resilient

· Fluent readers

· Excellent at oracy

· Able to engage fully with the world ( cultural capital)

· Aspirational and ambitious

· Able to challenge stereotypes

 

We follow the National Curriculum and have mapped out its delivery so that knowledge and skills are carefully built on over time so that children are able to know more and remember more of each subject as they progress through our school. Key concepts are carefully revisited over the years to ensure they are embedded. This is in our medium term plans.

 

In order to secure knowledge and understanding in the long term memory, we use a range of strategies to embed learning making knowledge and skills stick ( for example, retrieval practice, brain dumps, Kagan quiz quiz trade)

We aim to teach, practice, practice, practice.

 

We teach our pupils to have a ‘growth mindset’ which means that they take on challenges, aim high and aren’t afraid to make mistakes as they know this is how they learn.

Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum

Phonics is taught using the Little Wandle Program.

Click here for more details to take you directly to our phonics page.

 

The impact of all this is that the overwhelming majority of our children are:

Positive, respectful, confident and hardworking. They enjoy and embrace the curriculum and are motivated by their learning.

 

Our statutory data shows us that in KS1 and KS2 our pupils are reaching standards above national figures in all subjects.

 

For further information on the National Curriculum from September 2014, please click here.

 

 

Curriculum subject overview

 Please click on the links below to find out how we organise and teach the various subjects.