Learning & Sport

Curriculum Overview

Our Curriculum Intent

We aim for our children at Wheldrake with Thorganby CE Primary School to be resilient, kind, aspirational, happy and healthy. Our curriculum, alongside our core Christian values of faith, hope and love, provide opportunities for the children to achieve this and reach their full potential. 

Alongside our core Christian values of faith, hope and love, our Bible quotes underpin everything we do. These are Love your neighbour as yourselves Matthew 22:39 and Let us encourage one another Hebrew 10:25. These, combined with our expectations that every member of the school community is ready, respectful and safe, help our children to be good members of society valuing both themselves and others. 

We aim to celebrate the individuals within the community we serve. It is important to us that the children at our school appreciate their role in the community and understand their role in modern Britain today. We provide opportunities for the children to experience other cultures and locations, be these locally, nationally and internationally. We prioritise global understanding and how the children can look after the world for themselves and future generations.

Our intention is to nurture all children and adults to become lifelong learners, building a thirst for knowledge, encouraging excellence and fostering creativity through an engaging, exciting and empowering curriculum that equips them for today and tomorrow. We ensure equal access to learning for all pupils, with high expectations for every pupil and appropriate levels of challenge and support

Curriculum Policy 2023-2026

British Values and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural within the Curriculum 

Interwoven into the curriculum are the principles behind British Values and SMSC. Through a range of assemblies we develop respect and tolerance and an understanding of a range of multicultural festivals. This is further developed through RE and PSHE lessons in every classroom. We have an active School Council. We reward and encourage positive behaviour and follow three simple rules: Ready, Respect and Safe

Our Curriculum

We follow the Department for Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and Development Matters for Reception and National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 & 2. For detailed information of this curriculum, please see the Primary National Curriculum and the EYFS Framework.

The class curriculum overviews can be found below. If you have any questions or would like more information about our curriculum, please contact the school office.

 

Our Curriculum

We follow the Department for Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 & 2. For detailed information of this curriculum, please see the Primary National Curriculum and the EYFS Framework.

We plan in two year cycles for Key Stages 1 & 2. The class curriculum overviews can be found below. We started Cycle B in the 2021-22 academic year and will return to Cycle A in 2022-23. The Reception Class EYFS overview is annual, using the Development Matters to support our school EYFS curriculum.

EYFS Reception Class Curriculum Overview

Year 1 Curriculum Overview

Year 2 Curriculum Overview

Year 3 Curriculum Overview

Year 4 Curriculum Overview

Year 5 Curriculum Overview

Year 6 Curriculum Overview

Religious Education

At Wheldrake with Thorganby Primary School RE is taught in accordance with the Agreed Syllabus for the Dioceses of Leeds and York. You can view our most recent SIAMs report here.

As a Church of England primary school, each year group has a key focus on the teaching of Christianity as a living and diverse faith, as well as the opportunity for pupils to learn about and evaluate their own views on other world religions. We recognise that children do not experience a wide range of diversity within our immediate locality and therefore actively seek first hand learning opportunities for pupils to gain this insight elsewhere, helping them to recognise their place as a positive member of society. Our aim is to create a balanced curriculum that builds on pupils’ knowledge and understanding. Its key purpose is to develop children’s religious literacy, allowing them to hold well-informed conversation about religion and belief.

English

At Wheldrake with Thorganby CE Primary school, reading and writing is a crucial part of our curriculum. All children from EYFS to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to develop and apply their reading and writing skills across the curriculum.  Please see our progression documents for each year group below.

English progression documents

Maths

At Wheldrake with Thorganby CE Primary School, we recognise that maths is both a key skill within school, and a life skill to be utilised through everyday experiences. A high-quality maths education provides a firm foundation for understanding how maths is used in everyday life and activities, developing pupils’ ability to reason mathematically.

Through our mastery approach to the teaching of maths, we aim to develop:

  • A positive attitude towards maths and an awareness of the relevance of maths in the real world.
  • A process of enquiry and experiment.
  • An ability to solve problems and think logically in order to work systematically and accurately.
  • An ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others.
  • Competence and confidence in pupils’ maths knowledge, concepts and skills.
  • An appreciation of the creative aspects of maths and an awareness of its aesthetic appeal.

Here are some useful websites: Maths website links

Subject Progressions

Please see below for our progression documents for our other subjects.

Reception Curriculum Overview

 

Year 1 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 2 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 3 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 4 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 5 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 6 Curriculum Overview

Sport

Alongside our PE curriculum taught during lessons, we host a number of sports clubs after school throughout the year. Please see the table below for our current after school sports and extra-curricular clubs this half term:

All our clubs run from 3.20 until 4.15. Please contact the school office if you would like a place. All of our after school clubs are free.

 

Details of our expenditure on PE and Sports may be found by clicking here.

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School Games GOLD Mark Award

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games GOLD Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

A special thanks to everyone involved. We look forward to applying once again in 2024!

York School Sports Network

We are part of the York School Sports Network and have a primary PE specialist teach PE one day a week with our class teachers. As part of the partnership, we are involved in a number of sporting events and fixtures with schools in and around York. Please see below for some of our recent sporting commitments.

YSSN Cross Country Competition – 14th October – Pupils in Years 3-6.

YSSN Sports Hall Athletics Competition – 21st October – Pupils in Year 3 & 4.

YSSN FINALS Cross Country Competition – 20th March – Gigglewick – 4 pupils qualified in Year 6 and Year 4. 
 
Peter Feasby Hockey Competition for pupils in Year 5 and Year 6 in March. 

 

Competitions

Children are given the opportunity to compete internally and with other schools. We have continued to provide opportunities for competitions, virtual and in person, according to Covid restrictions.