Curriculum

Wood Lane Primary School: Curriculum Summary

📚 Curriculum Vision

Motto: “Be the best version of yourself”.

Core Belief: Children’s learning is central. The curriculum expands life chances, aiming for social equity and mobility. It allows everyone to be the best version of themselves, irrespective of the starting points, social and economic backgrounds.

Rights Respecting School: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is embedded. Children’s rights are taught, practiced, and promoted.

Aims to Develop: Respectful, confident learners who understand their rights and responsibilities in a global context.

🎯 Curriculum Aims

Strong Academic Outcomes:
- Deliver the National Curriculum in a way that supports conceptual understanding, skills development, and positive attitudes.

Social & Moral Development:
- Create a stable, respectful environment promoting self-esteem and mutual respect.

Deep Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge is built cumulatively; skills are revisited and deepened.

-Where language is taught explicitly, so children understand the spoken and written word

🧠 Curriculum Intent

Prior Knowledge Matters: Teaching builds on what children know.

First-Hand Experiences: Learning is enriched through real-world experiences both in the classroom and beyond.

Critical Thinkers: Curriculum promotes creativity, resilience, and reflection.

Broad & Balanced: All subjects are valued; Literacy and Numeracy are foundational and integrated across topics.

Learning Through Core Curriculum Areas: Where appropriate, connect knowledge and skills across the curriculum subject areas.

🛠️ Curriculum Implementation

Growth Mindset Culture: Children are taught to be resilient and independent. To have a can-do attitude.

Planning Approach:
- Subject leaders map learning across the school.
- Year groups adapt this to their pupils’ needs.

-Adapted resources are used and promoted to access the curriculum/specific subject areas.

-Teachers use nationally recognised schemes of work that support sequential learning and adapt these to meet the needs of our learners. These have been carefully chosen by subject leaders and are reviewed, to ensure their suitability.

Key Features:
- Curriculum areas are driven by the key knowledge and skills that the children need to acquire, know and remember.
- Pre-assessment of knowledge informs teaching.
- End-of-topic tasks assess progress.
- Enrichment: Trips, workshops, and visitors bring learning to life.
- Specialist Teaching: PE,

British Values and SMSC are woven through daily teaching, school assemblies, school life and through everyday conversations.

📊 Curriculum Impact

Assessment of Learning:
- Standards are evaluated against outcomes.
- Learning is celebrated and displayed.
- Sampling of work and pupil voice help monitor impact.
- Annual tracking ensures standards are monitored.

Parental Engagement:
- Curriculum maps are shared each term to keep families informed and involved. These are in children’s books and are used in lessons to help children know and remember more. They also support the children’s understanding of key vocabulary in subject specific areas.

✅ Key Strengths

Strong emphasis on children’s rights and personal development.

A curriculum that is inclusive, enriched, and knowledge-rich.

High priority given to reading, writing, and maths, with cross-curricular connections.

Use of enquiry questions and end tasks supports coherent planning and assessment.

Emphasis on SMSC, British Values, and cultural capital.

SEN Curriculum Statement

Curriculum SEND Statement

Children with SEND are fully integrated into the mainstream curriculum using high quality differentiated teaching and learning strategies that provide access for all. Leaders and teachers adapt the curriculum to the individual needs of our children, therefore, withdrawal from lesson time is avoided and is only ever replaced with high quality targeted intervention, which has a measurable impact on progress.

We foster and promote a culture of inclusion where every child has an equal opportunity to succeed and become the best that they can be. We have high expectations for every single child regardless of background or circumstance, and we foster a belief in our children that they can break any aspirational glass ceilings.

Our curriculum pinpoints individuals as unique and diversity is viewed as a positive. Our curriculum extends beyond subject knowledge to include social and emotional competencies and communication skills, which we believe are crucial in order to ensure that children are happy and successful in school and their personal life.

As such, we want children to have the knowledge that equips them with the skills to make a positive contribution to society following their education.