Curriculum Information at Farsley Westroyd Primary School

At Farsley Westroyd, we  provide a broad and balanced sequential, knowledge based curriculum that is accessible to ALL children. Below, you will find information about each subject taught across the school, along with a long-term plan for each year group. 

If you would like more details about our curriculum, please do not hesitate to contact the school office. They will direct your inquiry to the appropriate subject leader or senior leader who can provide further information.

We follow the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and adhere to the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 National Curriculum. Our curriculum is carefully designed to match our context and develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes, to prepare our pupils for the next stages of their education and make a positive contribution in life now and into the future.

For more information on the National Curriculum, including the framework for Key Stages 1 to 4, please follow the link below:

• The National Curriculum in England Framework for Key Stages 1 to 4

We are proud of the learning experiences we offer at Farsley Westroyd and are committed to ensuring that all pupils enjoy learning and achieve their full potential.

Westroyd Curriculum Intent Statement

At Farsley Westroyd Primary School and Nursery our whole school curriculum is designed to inspire a lifelong love of learning, where each child thoroughly enjoys coming to school, knows how to learn and feels empowered to believe in their own potential. We create an inclusive caring environment that nurtures achievement for all, ensuring every learner can grow academically, socially, and emotionally. By working together, we foster a strong sense of community, encouraging collaboration and shared successes in our learning. We are proud to belong to the Westroyd family and celebrate our achievements boldly. Our aim is for all students to leave as self-assured, confident young people, who not only have the skills and attitude needed to thrive in an ever-changing world but can also make a positive contribution to society both far and wide.

Our golden threads, are our principles that we promote through our curriculum. 

Enjoy – At Westroyd our curriculum is engaging and exiting and relevant to our context. Having fun learning together, supporting each other, and creating a love of learning, is at the heart of everything we do.

Believe – At Westroyd we believe there is no limit to what can be achieved. For this reason our curriculum is ambitious and through our adaptive approaches encourages all children  to be driven and demonstrate grit to overcome barriers, find solutions and stay focused on the goal. 

Achieve - At Westroyd, we promote positive learning behaviours and encourage our pupils to be self-regulated learners.  Our curriculum has explicit learning outcomes across all subjects and this clarity ensures pupils know what they are learning and why, hooking them into the process. Our delivery encourages our pupils to be resourceful enabled learners, who ask questions and work collaboratively to challenge themselves and others to be successful. 

Together  At Westroyd through the curriculum the children are encouraged to explore their own uniqueness and be confident and proud of who they are, which in turn promotes mutual respect. We are a caring, supportive family that embrace our diversity, learning from each other and celebrate our strong collective strength.  At Westroyd we are proud to be ourselves,  proud to be members of the Westroyd family and proud to be part of the Farsley Community

Motivating 

Our aim is for all pupils to be intrinsically motivated to learn. We have high ambitions for all learners and for everyone to achieve, pupils need to know how to learn and how they as individuals learn best.  We expect our pupils to have positive learning behaviours and teach them effective learning strategies. We want them to own their own learning and evaluate their own effectiveness. Key strategies to develop intrinsic motivate. We promote pride in all our learning and love to celebrate success. We use individual rewards to recognise positive learning qualities and in our weekly celebration assembly

 certificates. To enhance learning teachers provide hands-on activities and plan in visits and visitors in order to ensure that the learning is experiential, meaningful, enjoyable and memorable. We aim to broaden the children's experiences both in and out of the classroom. 

Inter-connected Learning

At Farsley Westroyd, we teach all subjects in the National Curriculum and each subject has a strong identity with specifically identified subject knowledge to be taught. We ensure there is absolute clarity for the children in what knowledge, skills and vocabulary they are learning at each stage. We know when a child has embedded the knowledge in their long term memory when they are able to transfer and apply the knowledge, skills and vocabulary in other subject areas. Each half term, the context of our English learning is linked to key areas of subject specific learning. We find that this hooks the children into the theme of learning. At Westroyd, we carefully constructed our long term plans,  so that the learning is sequential and that the knowledge is taught in a systematic order, which aids acquisition of knowledge and making those important links.

Our learning is planned so that pupils have plenty of retrieval practice time,  both in the short and long term, from the early years to year Six, to aid strong acquisition of knowledge. The children's books are their text books and are encouraged to refer back time and time again.

At the end of units pupils bring their knowledge together in an application task

Life Skills 

The Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) of a child is crucial to their education.  Our PSHE scheme of work is vital to supporting children with this and helps them to be self-reflective. It also teachers them what to do if they need help. In our Early Years, the Personal, Social and Emotional development of the children is key to their overall learning and children are given personal targets in this area.

Our wonderful Pastoral Lead plays a key role in providing support with personal and social development outside the curriculum. Children can access the Pastoral Lead as a drop-in provision or through a targeted programme to help children with PSHE targets. 

Planned focus weeks and days also provide opportunities for us to develop children's key life-skills.  Our 'Be Healthy and Safe Week', provides opportunities for us to teach important skills such as road safety and water safety. Alongside this, children learn about their own mental health and wellbeing, and activities which can support these in daily life.

Citizenship

At Westroyd we celebrate our similarities and differences and ensure that we respect diversity. Through our curriculum and collective worship, we expose our children to different cultures, faiths and backgrounds as well as challenging stereotypes. To support this we plan in focus weeks such as Black History Week and Inter-Faith Week, and we feel that this is particularly important as the vast majority of our school community is White-British. 

Through our 'Primary Picture News' resource, children are given the opportunity to discuss current issues linked to our British Values; Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Democracy and Rule of Law. 

Our children are given the opportunity to make a positive contribution to our school community through roles such as school council, class buddies, and digital and play leaders.  Organising fundraising events and forming links with our local community help our children to think about the wider role of being a good citizen. 

The document below outlines Westroyd's Curriculum Intent.  We have identified the pupils' needs which helps us identify how we shape our curriculum Implementation. The curriculum implementation outlines the content and approaches we are developing in order to meet the needs of our pupils. We measure the Impact of our curriculum approach through a range of methods.  We want to ensure that our pupils are not only progressing academically but also as well-rounded citizens.