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Curriculum

The curriculum at Woodlands is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all children and gives them the skills, knowledge and understanding to prepare them for their future lives.

  • It ensures that academic success, creativity and problem solving, reliability, responsibility and resilience, as well as physical development, well-being and mental health are key elements that support the development of the whole child and promote a positive attitude to learning. 
  • It ensures all children are taught a range of key knowledge and skills that will allow them to make good progress and best prepare them for the next stage of their learning.
  • Once a term, all children have the opportunity to engage in STEM themed activities for a day where they have the opportunity to develop problem solving and collaborative skills linked to their topic.

Early Years

The curriculum in Reception closely follows all national EYFS guidelines and is planned around a play- based, child-centred curriculum providing opportunities for children to explore and extend their ideas, knowledge and skills through a range of outdoor and indoor learning activities, most planned to be child-led and some planned to be adult-led. The EYFS curriculum is based around the following areas of learning. All learning is planned to follow topics that both directly draw on the interests of children and widen children’s experiences using a range of visits, books, multimedia and other sources of inspiration. Free flow allows for children to move between areas, and children are encouraged to make use of the outdoor environment.

Prime Areas of Learning

Specific Areas of Learning

Learning Characteristics

Communication and

Language

Physical Development

Personal, Social and

Emotional Development

Literacy

Mathematics

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts and Design

 

Playing and Exploring

Active Learning Creating and Thinking Critically

 

 

Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and Year 2)

We recognise that the transition from Early Years to Year 1 can be challenging for some children. The Year 1 curriculum has a planned transition process at the beginning of term 1, to make the new learning expectations clear to the children and to develop new ways for them to learn.

In Key Stage 1, learning is increasingly based on developing academic skills and more formal ways of

learning. Children still have many opportunities to explore learning in a play-based, child-initiated context, allowing them to directly apply the key skills they have acquired.

The Key Stage 1 curriculum is based around the following subjects. All learning is planned around class topics that widen children’s language and experiences using a range of visits, books, multimedia and other sources of inspiration.

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Computing (formerly ICT)
  • History
  • Geography
  • Religious Education
  • Art
  • Design Technology
  • Physical Education
  • Music

The key goal of the Key Stage 1 curriculum is to ensure all children develop the appropriate independent learning behaviours, formal skills and knowledge to best prepare them for their move to Key Stage 2.

Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6)

As children move into Key Stage 2, the context and subject of their learning becomes increasingly planned around formal skills and knowledge as well as specific curricular subject. Children still experience this learning through a range of activities designed to allow them to further apply and extend their key English and Maths skills throughout the curriculum.

The Key Stage 2 curriculum is based around the following subjects:

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Computing (formerly ICT)
  • History
  • Geography
  • Religious Education
  • Art
  • Design Technology
  • Physical Education
  • Music
  • Languages

Please download the document for the appropriate year group below to find out more about the curriculum that we follow at Woodlands.

If you wish to find out any further details about the curriculum we follow, please contact the school office.

Details about the phonics procedures which are followed at Woodlands at Key Stage 1, can also be downloaded below.