Wyvern Primary School

At Wyvern, our curriculum is designed with our children in mind, nurturing a lifelong love of learning and fostering their intellectual, social, and emotional development. Underpinned by the Wyvern Way, we provide a broad, balanced and progressive education that is relevant, engaging, and accessible to all children; ensuring they have the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in an ever-changing world.  We have identified ten priorities for our children, which are woven through our curriculum.

We make sure our curriculum has a strong focus on these ten areas, which we believe are really important for the children at our school. 

• Wellbeing (mental health, bereavement, rights)
• Character (resilience, independence, kindness, raising aspirations, social skills, manners)
• Vocabulary (speaking and listening, reading for pleasure)
• Nature (science, growing, wildlife, ECO)
• Problem-solving (reasoning)
• Enrichment (art, music, PE, clubs)
• Life skills (cooking, business/ money management)
• Keeping safe and healthy (first aid, prevent, e-safety, obesity and tooth decay, self-care)
• Computing  (new technology)
• The World (Knowledge of Leicester and the world beyond and our responsibilities)

Unicef Rights of the Child

We are a Silver Rights Respecting School and are working towards achieving our Gold Award. A strong rights-respecting approach is embedded into our curriculum.

Article 23: You have the right to special education and care if you have a disability, as well as all the rights in this Convention, so that you can live a full life.

Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.

Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.

Foundation subjects are taught discretely and links to other subjects are only made where appropriate and meaningful.  Core learning for each subject has been identified and sequenced to ensure progression from EYFS to Year 6.  This means children are able to focus on the most important learning. We have developed our own curriculum for Science, History, Geography, Financial Education, Art and Design and Technology.  For other areas of the curriculum, we have carefully selected schemes of work, which we have tailored to meet the needs of our children.  Trips and enrichment activities have been built into our curriculum to deepen children’s learning (and make it more fun!).

Within each unit, we see how children are making progress by assessing their understanding and learning in a range of different ways such as assessment tasks, quizzes, self-assessment and marking.

See example units below.

We follow the Locally Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education. As part of that syllabus children learn about a wide range of religions, beliefs and festivals. There is a new syllabus being introduced this year, and we will adjust our curriculum accordingly.  We pride ourselves in being a multi-cultural school, where a range of faiths are accepted and celebrated. 

If you wish to withdraw your child from religious education, please contact the school office on 0116 2661408.