The Curriculum at Widecombe-in-the-Moor Primary School
‘Nurturing our journey of lifelong learning’
Widecombe is placed in a unique and beautiful location in the heart of Dartmoor and we value everything that this location offers our children. A sense of community is central to our ethos, and we want our children to value and understand their own school community, the surrounding local communities but it is also extremely important to us that they develop a wider sense of what community means globally which opens their eyes to the world beyond where they live.
At Widecombe, we want our curriculum to give frequent and varied opportunities for our children to develop their personal voice. We want our children to leave Widecombe as confident, competent individuals who know how to collaborate with others and to make a positive difference to the people and the world around them. Alongside a continuously building, sequential and balanced, curriculum, child voice is an integral part of our planning process and children should be given scope to make decisions about their learning experiences thus engaging them fully in the process.
Through developing positive learning behaviours, our curriculum enables children to develop high expectations of themselves and to actively explore possibilities beyond the familiar. They leave our school with the life skills needed to succeed, and if they don’t always succeed, they will have the creativity, resilience and positivity to pick themselves up and to try again.
Accessibility Plan
This plan shows how we intend, over time, to increase the accessibility of our school for disabled pupils, staff, parents/carers and visitors:
• Increasing access to the curriculum for pupils with a disability This includes teaching and learning and the wider curriculum of the school such as participation in after-school clubs, leisure and cultural activities or school visits.
•Improving access to the physical environment This includes improvements to the physical environment of the school and physical aids to access education.
• Improving the delivery of written information to pupils This will include planning to make written information that is normally provided by the school to its pupils available to disabled pupils. The information should take account of pupils’ disabilities and pupils’ and parents’/carers’ preferred formats and be made available within a reasonable timeframe.
The National Curriculum
Our school curriculum covers the National Curriculum and EYFS framework as well as the RE agreed syllabus, PSHE and RSHE curriculums.
The National Curriculum is a statutory curriculum document used by primary and secondary schools. It covers what subjects are taught and the standards children should reach in each subject.
The National Curriculum is organised into blocks of years called ‘key stages’ (KS). At the end of each key stage, the teacher will assess pupil progress and outcomes.