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School Curriculum
At Willowbrook Primary School our curriculum is designed to ensure that children receive a high-quality education based on high expectations and ambition for all.
Our aim is to provide pupils with a richly connected bank of knowledge and skills which are revisited and built upon for high levels of long-term retention and automaticity.
Our curriculum aims to be sequential with key knowledge, vocabulary and skills mapped out to a granular level. This ensures that teachers and pupils know exactly what it is they are studying.
Throughout a pupil’s time with us, we create links to other learning and broaden their knowledge and understanding of the world through wide ranging experiences, including trips and visits. We ensure academic rigour in English, mathematics and science but allow children to express themselves through computing, DT, arts, and music. We also provide access to high-quality sport and P.E. through specialists.
Willowbrook pupils will develop and strong sense of right and wrong and understand the benefits of hard work, commitment, and reflection. We want pupils to take pride in their school and activly promote British Values through activities such as Mini Police. Additionally, we understand the importance of developing the whole child and promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental, and physical development of all pupils.
To encourage the love of reading, our curriculum is based around key texts for each year group in every term. These texts are studied as part of our whole class reading sessions. These books have been carefully aligned with history, geography, science, and art to create a highly connected series of lessons, meaning children can make strong connections between subjects.
"If you'd like to learn more about our curriculum, please refer to our curriculum outline below and the documents for each subject. You can also reach out to the Head Teacher, who will be happy to discuss it with you. He can be contacted via email at john.bullen@acorneducationtrust.com.
Curriculum Outline
Curriculum Outline
At Willowbrook Primary School, as we have mixed-age classes, our curriculum is organised into a two-year rolling programme of whole-school topics. Through our curriculum, we aim to provide opportunities for children to learn and develop a broad range of knowledge, understanding, and skills. We also plan experiences that broaden their understanding of the subject matter. Additionally, children have opportunities to revisit knowledge and skills as they progress into subsequent years. Discrete learning is also planned for some subjects, such as Maths, RE, PE, MFL (French) in KS2, Music, PSHE, Phonics, and punctuation and grammar.
Planning Teaching and Learning
Teachers work together to agree on the content and sequence of learning for each term's topic. In addition, for some subjects, teachers use published schemes of work but adapt them to meet the needs of the children at Willowbrook. Lesson outcomes are planned with clear and progressive success criteria, allowing all children to develop their knowledge, understanding, and skills. Teachers refer to the National Curriculum framework, our curriculum overviews, and progression documents to ensure both continuity and progression at a level appropriate to the learning needs of our pupils.
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