Curriculum

Curriculum Intent

Everything we do is driven by our core purpose: together, we can create a world of endless possibilities. We are compelled to provide a world-class creative curriculum that is aspirational and ambitious for every child. Our broad and balanced WONDER Curriculum, which is inclusive by design, has been crafted to meet the needs of our diverse community through carefully connecting the head, heart and hand. Our progressive learning episodes, based on the National Curriculum, build upon prior learning and help our children to know more and remember more.

Head	Heart	Hand
The knowledge our children acquire, building sequentially and progressively.	The enriching experiences our children encounter to develop skills for life and grow into responsible, compassionate citizens that demonstrate the values and characteristics to thrive in modern Britain.	The skills our children develop to ensure they are ready for life beyond Wyndham and a lifetime of success.

 

Deeply rooted within this approach is reading; the significance of this skill and disciplinary literacy across the curriculum is key to our pupils’ accessing and activating knowledge and vocabulary, developing their cultural capital and stimulating social mobility later in life. Fluency, oracy and enjoyment is prioritised in early reading to ensure pupils’ automaticity of skills and ultimately enabling them to become proficient readers with a deep appreciation and understanding of the written word as they progress through our school.

What and how we teach is rooted in knowledge about cognitive science, helping to make learning stick over time. Our planned learning episodes are underpinned by our WONDER Principles, driving ‘how’ learning is activated. Our WONDER Principles guide the way our curriculum is designed and built:

• Work together to communicate ideas
• Old learning is retrieved
• New learning is practised
• Deepen thinking by problem solving
• Exploration of the world
• Read and research together

Central to our curriculum is personal development. We have ambitious, creative approaches in place to nurture children’s broader development and foster their well-being. We utilise the strong connections we have within our local community to provide carefully planned opportunities and experiences that they would not ordinarily encounter, creating a world of endless possibilities for our Wyndham children both now and in the future.

 

Curriculum Teams

Curriculum Directors are accountable for ensuring that the curriculum is coherent, ambitious, knowledge-rich and rooted in evidence-informed practice and pedagogical approaches that derive from cognitive science about memory, forgetting and the power of retrieval. 

Subject leaders are responsible for leading and monitoring their area. Staff meetings during the year will develop subject knowledge and provide rich CPD opportunities, enabling all staff to focus on their own knowledge gaps in advance of teaching them. Resources and equipment will be audited and ordered by the leaders, ensuring that all learning episodes can be taught effectively, have maximum impact upon learning and interrupt the forgetting. Subjects are always led in teams as we believe in the power of collaboration.

 

Subject Teams

Curriculum Strand: Future Innovators
Curriculum Director: Jenny O’Riordan
Subject	Computing	Maths	Design & Technology
Subject Leader	Sabaa Khan  Kevin Jones – E-safety	Nicol Winfield-Murray/Jenny O’Riordan	Lauren Brooker
Team members	Georgia Bailey, Saima Rizwan, Emma Rayiru, Jamie Armstrong, Emma Hursey, Kirsty D

 

Curriculum Strand: Express Yourself
Curriculum Director: Katie Tildesley
Subject	Music	PE	Art
Subject Leader	Shaun Barker	Joe Martin	Katie Tildesley
Team members	Erica Tite, Hayley Muldoon, Hayley Hancock, Mandi Westbrook, Kerry Bishton, Chelsea Ratcliffe

 

Curriculum Strand: Wonderful World
Curriculum Director: Becky Harries
Subject	History	Geography	RE	Science
Subject Leader	Becky Harries	Emily Noke	Asmaa Ahmed	Rachel Bird
Team members	Caroline Jackson, Claire Kelk, Emma Mellard, Nisha Kaur, Sarah-Jane Jeffrey, Zoe Flint

 

Curriculum Strand: Communicate and Connect
Curriculum Director: Lauren Brooker
Subject	English	Oracy	PSHE/SCARF	MFL
Subject Leader	Michelle Garton  Nicole Winfield – Phonics  Sandy Churchward – Early English	Maddy Higgins	Katie McCabe	Amie Proom
Team members	Kelly Gallimore, Ashley Gowlett, Suzannah Hemmings, Katie Scotney, Kyle Rogers

2022-23 WONDER Maps

Summer 1

• Foundation 1
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• Year 1
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Spring 2

• Foundation 1
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Spring 1

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Autumn 2

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Autumn 1

• Foundation 1
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2021-22 WONDER Maps

Summer 2

• Year 1
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Summer 1

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
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Spring 2

• Year 1
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Spring 1

• Foundation
• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4
• Year 5
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Autumn 2

• Foundation
• Year 1
• Year 2
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Autumn 1

• Foundation
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Curriculum Maps

• Year 1 – NCETM Curriculum Map
• Year 2 – NCETM Curriculum Map
• Year 3 – NCETM Curriculum Map
• Year 4 – NCETM Curriculum Map
• Year 5 – NCETM Curriculum Map
• Year 6 – NCETM Curriculum Map