Our Curriculum
At Whitehouse Primary, we believe children learn best when they’re excited and curious about what they’re studying. That’s why our curriculum is built around engaging themes that spark interest and imagination.
We encourage children to explore topics in different ways – through reading, writing, art, science, and more – so they can make meaningful connections across subjects. This integrated approach helps deepen understanding and makes learning more enjoyable and relevant to their world.
Power Maths
Power Maths is a UK curriculum mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and nurture confidence in maths.
The English Curriculum
Our Approach
The English Curriculum is a book-based approach to teach reading, writing, spelling and grammar. It immerses children in a wide range of significant authors and a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry helping to create strong levels of engagement and providing meaningful and authentic contexts for learning.
We follow a Mastery approach to English using the Pathways to Write programme. This means children build strong writing skills over time, with plenty of opportunities to practise and apply what they’ve learned.
Each unit is based on a high-quality text that inspires children to write creatively and purposefully. Skills are taught through repetition and revisited regularly, helping children to grow in confidence and ability.
Vocabulary development is a key focus. Pathways to Write supports our wider school work to give children a rich and varied vocabulary, helping them express themselves clearly and effectively.
End-of-year expectations for writing, reading and spoken language for each year group are available in the attached documents.
Phonics Curriculum
We use the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme to plan and provide daily engaging phonics lessons.
Click here for more information on Little Wandle.
Handwriting
We are very proud of our pupil’s handwriting and take particular care in our cursive/joined-up handwriting style. We use Letter-join as the basis of our handwriting policy that covers all the requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum.
Click the link below for guidance of how to use Letter-join to support with handwriting, at home.
Music, Computing and RSE Curriculum – Kapow
Get Set 4 PE
At Whitehouse, we ensure that our PE provision is progressive (through structured, rigorous planning and delivery) and effective (though clear assessments and monitoring of staff and children).
Our PE curriculum ‘GetSet4PE’ provides an effective and efficient form of assessment in which children can be assessed against each individual aspect of PE they are undertaking within the term. ‘GetSet4PE’ allows for individual comments to be added to the children if they are excelling or struggling with a particular aspect of PE. ‘GetSet4PE’ allows for after school clubs to be recorded as well as competitions that have been attended which allows for us to easily recognise and calculate the number of active children within the school.
Our School Games Mark awarding of a ‘Gold’ ranking is continually maintained by applying on an annual basis to verify the quality and breadth of the provision we offer.
An indication of our commitment to school sports can be seen in the values our pupils demonstrate at community, competitive events where they not only triumph in winning medals and trophies but also model our core school growth mindset values such as, perseverance, determination, teamwork and resilience. This can also be seen throughout our School Games Day where pupils enjoy supporting one another, leading activities and officiating the day.
RE
We follow the Stockton NATRE agreed syllabus.