Academy Ethos
At Woodlands Primary Academy, our children 'Enjoy, Thrive and Aspire'. Through our whole school approach, all children are encouraged to fulfil their potential, regardless of economic status, background or need. Children are exposed to enriching experiences, immersing them in progressive knowledge and skills; equipping them with personal characteristics required to succeed in life.
Our Academy
- Mental Health & Wellbeing
Children at Woodlands need a curriculum that equips them with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate adolescence and adulthood with positive mental health and wellbeing, equalising their life chances and ensuring they fulfil their potential - Rights Respecting Schools
Our curriculum is underpinned by the UNCRC, empowering our children with both awareness and ownership of their own voice, ensuring they are heard - Reading
We strive to ensure our children are avid readers with access to a wide range of genre, author and text type from the Early Years through to Year 6. Reading underpins our curriculum and ambitious and relevant texts are meticulously chosen to bring learning to life. We know that with a solid foundation in early reading and the skills needed to decode texts, the doors are opened to the wider curriculum and beyond. - Inclusion
We ensure our curriculum is accessible to all learners, regardless of SEND, socio-economic status or background. Our curriculum is designed to build unquestionable acceptance and resilience in our children
First and foremost, children at Woodlands are safe. By placing high value on a curriculum that is designed to ensure children have the skills and knowledge needed to maintain positive wellbeing, we ensure that our children learn to use their voices to effectively challenge discrimination and promote diversity.
We are a gold accredited RRS school and as such, our curriculum is built upon foundations driven by Articles within the United Nations Children’s Rights Charter (UNCRC).
By applying both a Rights Respecting philosophy and placing high value on the Mental Health and Wellbeing threads within our curriculum, we prepare our children to become active citizens who make positive contributions to the local and wider community.
In line with our Academy Aims, we have developed a curriculum that provides opportunity for all children, regardless of economic status or additional need, to make good progress because they are exceptionally well prepared for the next stage in their education. The curriculum we have developed provides learning, opportunities and experiences that equalize the life chances of our children.
At Woodlands every child has access to the sessions being taught. Our fundamental values, which come through our RRS approach, are well established and share the belief that every child has the right to learn.
Our SEN policy and Equality policy outline our core offer and how meet the Equality Act 2010 and the SEND Regulation of 2014.
SEND Information (Our Academy menu tab)
An emphasis on the development of basic skills in communication, literacy and numeracy at all stages is central in the teaching of all subjects at Woodlands. This ensures we can effectively ‘catch up’ children quickly and address the achievement deficit which remains evident on entry to school for the majority of our learners. By securing success in the core subjects, access to the wider curriculum is enhanced and outcomes for children are improved.
Impact
| Mental Health & Wellbeing | Rights Respecting Schools | Reading | Inclusion |
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Children leave Woodlands with an awareness of their own strengths and a range of strategies to tackle the new challenges faced by a KS3 curriculum
Life chances for our children are Children at Woodlands are equalised
Children leave Woodlands “Secondary ready” with the skills, knowledge & resilience needed maintain a positive mental health into adolescence. |
Our children have a voice and can articulate their rights
Children leave Woodlands with the courage to advocate for others
Children value education and place importance on the role of school in their lives, this ensures they attend well and have the desire to retain knowledge across a range of curriculum subjects
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Our children leave Woodlands as avid readers
Children are exposed to a vocabulary rich curriculum which gives them the knowledge they need to access secondary education successfully.
Reading closes the gap for our children and equalizes their life chances
Children have insight into real and fantasy worlds beyond Oldham, broadening their knowledge of cultural capital, people and places |
All children, regardless of their starting points, make good progress across the curriculum through engagement in an inclusive offer which ensures access to high quality teaching and learning where teachers follow a sequenced, coherently planned curriculum to embed knowledge and skills across a broad and balanced curriculum All children are well prepared for the challenges of KS3 and know their personalised next steps to ensure they continue a positive trajectory into Secondary education |
More Information
Subject leaders have designed a coverage overview and corresponding unit plans which sets out expectations within their curriculum subject across the Academy. These can be found within specific subject pages via the links on the right hand side of this page.
You are welcome to contact us in school to discuss our curriculum offer with either the Principal or Curriculum Lead. Please speak to the main office to make an appointment