At Whitemoor, we are committed to developing the whole child and our curriculum is tailored to the needs of our pupils, preparing them for life beyond the classroom. We teach the full range of National Curriculum (2014) subjects; Relationships and Health Education; and Religious Education.

Our curriculum is built around the principles of the Whitemoor Way:

Work Hard

Independent Thinking

Everybody Matters

Outstanding Opportunities

Resilience

Whitemoor’s curriculum is a well-sequenced knowledge-rich curriculum, which ensures that children secure a solid base to build on and develop knowledge systematically over time. This means that they are well-equipped to meet the challenges of secondary school and beyond.

At Whitemoor, in order to ensure that we have a clear, consistent and systematic approach across school, we teach using the following curricula:
Primary Knowledge Curriculum: science, history, geography, RE, DT, art, music

Maths: White Rose

PSHE: SCARF

Spanish: Language Angels

Computing: Purple Mash

Our PE curriculum is planned by our specialist PE teacher alongside the PE curriculum leader.

Please see individual subject pages for further detail.

 

Our curriculum is ambitious and goes above and beyond the requirements laid out in the national curriculum, for example in science we study some of the key historical figures behind discoveries such as Newton, Curie and Latimer.

Whitemoor’s curriculum ensures that children develop a strong vocabulary base and a good understanding of the world. It promotes long-term learning and progress is built on knowing more and remembering more.

As pupils learn the content of the curriculum, they are making progress. All of our curricula, whether using an external scheme or whether written by us, are built on current research regarding how memory works to ensure that children not only have access to 'the best that has been thought and said' but are taught this in a way that ensures children can remember the curriculum content in future years. We believe that knowledge fosters curiosity - as pupils learn more about the world they become more curious. Teachers understand that knowledge is 'sticky'- the more pupils know, the easier it is for them to know more. As a result, we carefully check and activate prior knowledge to ensure our pupils are able to understand and remember new things they are learning.
 

Our curricula are based on the following principles:

• Detailed Specification: Our curricula set out very precisely what pupils will know and be able to do in each subject. If we want pupils to know a specific piece of knowledge we specify when and how this is learned over time. We also specify, for example, which key figures children will learn about during their time at Whitemoor and ensure that these draw from a range of diverse backgrounds.

 

• Ambitious Content: Our curriculum exposes children to ‘powerful knowledge’ and cultural capital that often goes beyond their lived experiences, aiming to empower them to understand the world around them and understand how each subject discipline works in order to extend their knowledge of the world.  

 

• Intentional Sequencing and Granular Knowledge: We have coherent, well-sequenced plans that build logically year-on-year, ensuring new information ‘sticks’ to prior knowledge. Each unit of work in a subject builds directly on what has been learned before. This helps pupils understand and remember their learning more effectively.

 

• Subject Specialism: We treat subjects as discrete disciplines from year 1. This ensures that pupils have a very clear understanding of what is important about each subject and that their knowledge and skills progress systematically over time in each area of the curriculum.

 

• Evidence-Based Pedagogy: Our curricula integrate cognitive science principles — such as spaced retrieval and low-stakes quizzing — directly into the curriculum design to move knowledge into long-term memory.
   

Our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum which can be found by clicking the link at the bottom of this page. 

 

 

 

At Whitemoor, our intention is for pupils to access all areas of our curriculum. For information on how we facilitate this, please see our Accessibility Plan, which is located on the 'Policies' page of our website.

Furthermore, you can learn more about SEND provision at our school with regard to the curriculum, as well as how our curriculum complies with the Public Sector Equality Duty, via the relevant page link below.

If the information that you are looking for is not included in the links above, please contact the school office and ask to speak with Miss Fletcher.