What does your child learn at school each day?

Find information about our curriculum subjects here.

At Wistow Parochial C of E Primary School, we strive to teach and inspire all our pupils with exciting and engaging lessons, assessing regularly to identify gaps and then plan to fill them with additional opportunities and interventions when needed.  

             Sowing seeds of knowledge and faith,             with nurture and love

   We thrive, we grow!

How We Teach The Curriculum In School

All aspects of the National Curriculum are taught and for primary pupils, this is composed of twelve subjects and Religious Education. As a church school, we treat Religious Education as a core subject and ensure that our Christian Values and Vision, is intertwined with children's learning at all times, to ensure that they grow and thrive. Making up the curriculum are the three subjects form the core of the National Curriculum: English, Mathematics and Science. As mentioned previously, Religious Education is also one of our core subjects. The foundation subjects include, PSHE, Computing, History, Geography, Design and Technology, Art and Design, Music and Physical Education. We also teach Spanish as our chosen Modern Foreign Language.

At Wistow School, we have developed the mastery approach to both Maths and English. We use White Rose Maths as the foundation of our curriculum and Pathways To Write approach in English.  As a Church of England School, we use the North Yorkshire SACRE agreed syllabus to support our teaching of Religious Education.

Children’s progress is assessed against the curriculum using a system of whether a child is working below, at or above their age related expectancy. 

As a church school, our school Golden values and British Values are intertwined with our Christian Values into every day learning, in order to ensure that our children are learning whilst becoming well-rounded, kind, compassionate and understand the world in which they live in and the country that they are part of.

We send home half termly newsletters which clearly outline learning for each half term. These can be found also on our class pages, which we do to promote a home school partnership in teaching and learning. As always, parents can contact school should they have any questions related to curriculum and teaching and learning at Wistow.