Curriculum at White Court School
At White Court Primary School, we have designed a curriculum which provides our children with the best educational start in life. Our curriculum considers the needs of a 21st Century child and is ambitious in providing our children with the knowledge, skills and learning behaviours required to become successful life-long learners.
At the heart of our school, we place great importance on a curriculum which develops the whole child. Through our core values, we foster an environment where the emotional, physical, academic, social, moral, spiritual and cultural development of each child is considered. We firmly believe that everyone is entitled to an ambitious curriculum and our curriculum design is accessible for all. We enable learners to acquire relevant subject knowledge which underpins the application of skills. Skills are carefully and progressively mapped across each key stage and subject area.
Knowledge is consolidated and built upon to support retention and recall. This ensures that by the time children leave our school they have learned, and are able to recall and apply the key information that we feel is important in order for them to be successful in the future.
Cultural capital is the accumulation of knowledge, attitudes, habits, language and possessions that enables individuals to demonstrate their cultural competence and social status. Our school plays a crucial role in developing this through immersing children in dance and music, visiting theatres, galleries and historic sites and by introducing them to literature and art.
Embedding cultural capital into our curriculum is a way of ensuring that children from all backgrounds have the same opportunities in society to achieve their full potential. Pupils leave White Court Primary School with a secure understanding of the academic content; with the understanding of how to be socially, morally, spiritually and culturally responsible and aware; how to make positive contributions to the local community and how to endeavour to be the best that they can be. We aim for all of our children to be respectful, skilful, ambitious and with a thirst for life and all it has to offer.
Please use this link to visit our page on 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' which also includes lots of information about 'Educate and Celebrate':
Autumn 2023 Curriculum Overviews
Summer 2022 Curriculum Overviews
Further Information
If you want to find out more about the curriculum, please email admin@whitecourt.essex.sch.uk