Curriculum
Overview:
Whalley CE Primary School delivers a fun, relevant, stimulating and challenging curriculum for each and every child that attends our school. Our curriculum is organised to ensure that we provide children with all of the statutory requirements as set out by The National Curriculum (2014) as well as tailoring our curriculum to ensure that it is personalised and very well-suited to the needs of the children in our school. As a basis we follow the curriculum produced by Lancashire Professional Development Service. These materials are copyright and so cannot be published on the website but the themes and curriculum overviews for each class are available on the links below.
EYFS:
The Early Year’s Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the statutory standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old.
It supports an integrated approach to early learning and care. It gives all professionals a set of common principles and commitments to deliver quality early education and childcare experiences to all children.
There is a strong focus on the three prime areas which are most essential for children’s healthy development:
- communication and language;
- physical development
- personal, social and emotional development.
Learning in the specific areas of literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design build upon learning in the prime areas.
You can read the latest EYFS handbook and Frameworks here…
Development Matters in the EYFS
Key Stage One:
Cycle A:
Year One and Two Topic - Autumn 1: Exploring! Our Local Area and Afar (1)
Year One and Two Topic - Autumn 2: Exploring! Our Local Area and Afar (2)
Year One and Two Topic - Spring : Healthy Heroes
Year One and Two Topic - Summer:
Cycle B:
Year One and Two Topic - Autumn: Fire and Ice
Year One and Two Topic - Spring: Incredible Me!
Year One and Two Topic - Summer: On our Doorstep
Lower Key Stage Two:
Cycle A:
Year Three and Four Topic - Autumn: How did the Romans Impact upon Life Today?
Year Three and Four Topic - Spring: Rock and Roll
Year Three and Four Topic -Summer : Water Water
Cycle B:
Year Three and Four Topic - Autumn: Sparks Might Fly
Year Three and Four Topic - Spring: Healthy Humans
Year Three and Four Topic - Summer : How Does Your Garden Grow?
Upper Key Stage Two:
Cycle A:
Year Five and Six Topic - Autumn: World War II
Year Five and Six Topic - Spring: Where's Whalley?
Year Five and Six Topic - Summer: Space
Cycle B:
Year Five and Six Topic - Autumn: Rainforest Adventures