Curriculum

At Weldon we offer a well-rounded, well planned and progressive curriculum. Please refer to our Curriculum Intent documents below. This should be read alongside our Maths (+EYFS Maths) Intents, our Reading Intent and our EYFS Intent. Also below are details of each year's long term plan, highlighting subjects and content taught over each year. For details of each individual term's content, refer to the Curriculum News for each year group below and on each class page.

Curriculum Intent Documents

Curriculum Long Term Plans

Class Learning for 2025/26

Phonics

At Weldon, we use one synthetic phonics programme from YR to Y2: We use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds to teach phonics and graphic knowledge (common exception words and tricky words). We supplement this scheme with relevant materials that match the sets and phases and have fidelity to Little Wandle.

Using this programme, we are confident that: - grapheme/phoneme (letter/sound) correspondences are taught in a clearly defined, incremental sequence; - we introduce children very early on to a defined initial group of consonants and vowels, enabling them to read and spell as soon as possible many simple CVC words; - children are taught the highly important skill of blending phonemes, in order, all through a word to read it; - children are taught to apply the skills of segmenting words into their constituent phonemes to spell; blending and segmenting are reversible processes. - Multi-sensory activities used are interesting and engaging but firmly focused on intensifying the learning associated with its phonic goal.

The programme starts almost immediately children enter Reception, from the second week of starting school.

Phonics Documents

Reading

At Weldon C.E Primary School, it is our vision to create a lifelong long love of reading. We believe that every child should read for pleasure. We are striving to create a passionate reading community in order to develop enthusiastic and confident readers. Through our reading curriculum, we aim to provide our children with rich and exciting opportunities that develop them socially, emotionally and intellectually and build within them a real love of reading that will stay with them forever.

Primarily we aim to achieve this through the development of a curriculum that immerses children in literature and the spoken word. Daily exposure to books and reading will enable our children to hear written English in its correct form, develop listening skills and introduce then to a wide variety of books, genres and authors.

Maths

Reception/EYFS

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Calculation Policies

Further information on the curriculum

If you would like any further information about the curriculum our school is following please contact our school office at office@weldon.pdet.org.uk

Printed copies of all website documents can be requested, free of charge, from our school office.

Weldon CE Primary School