Our curriculum at Wigton Nursery and Infant school is designed to provide opportunities for all of our children to develop the skills to be successful in the future, including English (language, reading and writing), Maths, Science and Computing as well as History, Geography, Art, Design Technology, Religious Education, Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE), Physical Education and Music. We weave Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) and British Values development through our whole curriculum. Our curriculum is a knowledge-based, strategically planned, sequence of learning.
Based on the National Curriculum: Our key aim is to make the curriculum exciting and stimulating while ensuring that children achieve the end of Key Stage 1 curriculum expectations in the core and foundation subjects. We have carefully considered the end points to which the curriculum is building towards with a clear progression through the Early Years up to Year 2 (the end of Key Stage 1). Each subject has a detailed Progression of Knowledge detailing expectations by year group which we devised using the KS1 National Curriculum expectations as a starting point and then working backwards - we have given extra thought to the progression between Reception and Year 1 as a bridge between the Early Years Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum. The objectives for each subject have been carefully sequenced so that the children's knowledge builds from what they have learned previously to the less familiar and new content.
Inclusion
(Our approach to the curriculum and how we are complying with our duties in the Equality Act 2010 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 about making the curriculum accessible for those with disabilities or special educational needs.)
The following principles inform and guide our policy and practice:
What is good provision for a child with SEND is good for all children, i.e. an abundance of activities that allow children to learn visually, through speaking and listening and kinaesthetically, using principles of Quality First Teaching and by embedding the school Learning Powers across the curriculum. We respond to children’s diverse learning needs by being committed to removing barriers to learning and we do this by:
Focus on developing vocabulary: Our progression grids include the key vocabulary that children are expected to understand and begin using in their spoken and written outcomes across different subjects. We teach children vocabulary through our three times a week reading practice sessions and as a key part of every lesson.
Please use the 'Curriculum Subject' tabs to find out more about specific subjects.
Each year groups long term overviews can be found below.