Our aim at West Borough is to provide our children with an exciting, purposeful and challenging curriculum. This includes the provision of real life learning experiences and the development of learning skills that will enable our children to become independent and life-long learners.  We believe that our children deserve a broad and balanced curriculum with equality of subjects enabling all learners to be challenged and to achieve.

Our curriculum is ambitious for all children and one that is coherently planned and sequenced to ensure that every child is able to achieve. Reading takes a high priority in our school. We know that if a child can read, they have a better chance to perform better in other areas of the curriculum, develop a broader vocabulary, increase their general knowledge and provide them with a better understanding of the world around them. These are all essential for improving opportunities of being successful during their school life and in the future.

We ensure that our curriculum is:

• Broad and Balanced – Covering a rich range of subjects and experiences that develop academic, creative, and physical skills.

• Ambitious – Setting high expectations for every learner to achieve their potential.

• Inclusive – Removing barriers to learning and celebrating diversity.

• Engaging and Relevant – Connecting learning to real-life experiences and the wider world.

• Values-Led – Embedding our core values into every aspect of teaching and learning.

We aim for every child to leave West Borough Primary School as a confident, kind, and capable learner, ready for the next stage of their education and life.

You can read our Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Statement here.

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and National Curriculum.  

We teach writing in a systematic way which develops through the Early Years. We expect the majority of children to write cursively  by the end of Key Stage 1. 

Our teaching of Phonics follows Little Wandle.  Following on from the teaching of phonics, SPAG (spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) is taught systematically.

In Maths we follow a Mastery approach. This means that children are taught using carefully selected models and images to support their learning. Their lessons are carefully structured to move in very small steps, and to include a variety of ways of presenting the maths. Our overall aim is for children to keep up with the maths for their year group and not fall into a position of catch-up. We use the White Rose scheme of Learning that is recommended by the National Centre for Excellence in teaching Maths.

Relationship and Health Education

"Today’s children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. In this environment, children and young people need to know how to be safe and healthy, and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way." Secretary of State for Education, July 2020

RHE is now a statutory part of our school curriculum. On the right you will find a range of resources explain what we will be teaching and when.