Curriculum

Working together to be Happy and Successful!

At New Whittington Primary School, we strive to work closely and in partnership with parents and the community to provide a safe, caring and inspiring environment where children are supported, challenged and encouraged to be the best they can be.

Our knowledge and understanding of our children and the community in which they live helps to tailor an exciting and creative curriculum which meets the needs of our learners and which also has a strong focus on the development and application of the core areas of reading, writing and mathematics.

We believe in providing children with a broad, balanced curriculum which provides first had experiences and builds upon children’s prior knowledge. As such we have chosen to follow the National Curriculum 2014 in all subjects. We use a thematic approach to planning our curriculum. This approach helps to ensure that lessons are taught in an exciting and engaging way which exploits and reinforces cross curricular skills.

We aim to ensure that our themes have stimulating starting and finishing points and teachers ensure that there are many opportunities for first hand experiences, including a variety of visits and visitors to school. In addition, we aim to ensure that the children are involved in the planning process and can guide where their learning takes them. As long as we, as teachers, ensure that the key skills and objectives are taught from the National Curriculum, the interests of children and the focus on creativity and challenging themselves is a school aim.

The curriculum at New Whittington Primary School is not, nor should it be, focused solely on academic subjects and outcomes. At the heart of our curriculum sits the children – giving them an exciting and inspirational start to their school life and preparing them for the future is an important aim.

We promote an understanding of different beliefs and cultures and learn tolerance and respect towards others. We ensure our children understand the difference between right and wrong and the consequences that their actions can have. Our curriculum and high quality pastoral programme supports pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. We aim to develop well mannered, rounded children who are tolerant and respectful and, by the time they leave us, are well prepared for their secondary school years and ultimately adult life in modern Britain.

Topics and Terms:

Curriculum Topics (Cycle A- Two Year Cycle) 2020-2021
	Term 1	Term 2	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
EYFS	My World	Sparkle	Long Long Ago	The Great Outdoors
Year 1 and 2	Where in Europe?	Autumn & Harvest	Beware of the Pirates	Great Fire of London
Year 3 and 4	Around the World in 80 Days	All the World's a Stage	The Land that Time Forgot	I Am Warrior!
Year 5 and 6	Myth, Monsters and Mayhem	War & Peace		Home and Away

Curriculum Topics (Cycle B- Two Year Cycle) 2019-2020
	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
EYFS	How to be a Hero!	'Tis the Season	Amazing Authors	Once Upon a Time	What grows?	On the Farm
Year 1 and 2	The History of New Whittington & Great Britain	Winter is Coming!	Welcome to India	Historical Heroes	The Secret Lives of Plants!	Our Incredible Bodies
Year 3 and 4	Stone Age to Iron Age	Everyday Heroes	Fire and Ice	Rainforest Rescues	Gardeners World	Don't you think you should be fit and healthy?
Year 5 and 6	Terrible Tudors	Out of this World	Vile Victorians	Ecowarrior	The Game of Survival	Think you’ve got it bad? Welcome to…Ancient Egypt!

We have updated our curriculum. Please see the two year cycle below to discover the exciting learning available at New Whittington Primary School.

New Whittington Primary Curriculum Document
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