The National Curriculum

At Whitley Lodge, we offer a broad and balanced curriculum that is ambitious and incorporates all National Curriculum requirements. Through our curriculum, we aim to excite, engage and inspire our children by providing them with rich and varied learning opportunities. Our curriculum delivers opportunities for all children to gain transferrable skills whilst also acquiring relevant knowledge; supporting them to become well-rounded, informed individuals ready for the next stage of their learning journey.

Two-year Curriculum Cycle

After our Reception year, classes are organised into mixed-age classes with 45 children in each cohort with approximately 30 children in each class. For this reason, we have carefully planned and developed a two-year rolling curriculum for science and the foundation subjects, which is based on the National Curriculum requirements and the essential knowledge we believe to be important. We have designed our curriculum so that key concepts are revisited to ensure knowledge ‘sticks’ and skills are progressive and transferable. Units of work have been thoughtfully sequenced to ensure that children can build on their prior knowledge and skills and deepen their existing understanding. Children will have covered the National Curriculum objectives by the end of each key stage.