Name: Woodfield Primary School
Location: Harrogate
Acting Headteacher: Mr M Atkinson

About Woodfield Community Primary

Our vision is to provide a positive, happy and safe environment within a strong community; where every child feels recognised and valued. Woodfield is a place where pupil’s success and achievements are celebrated and inspirational, high quality teaching means our children develop an enthusiasm for learning.

Our Curriculum aims to develop the RESPECT character traits:

  • Resilience
  • Empathy
  • Self-awareness
  • Positivity
  • Excellence
  • Communication
  • Teamwork

Woodfield Primary School, School of the Week

What’s new at Woodfield?

  • Brand new dynamic curriculum – Each topic is well planned and sequenced with a ‘hook’ for learning to really get the children excited about their learning.
  • Computer Suite – 24 brand new touch screen computers with up to date software to support the teaching of the computing curriculum. The computer suite is regularly used to support learning in other subjects.
  • Commando Joes – Commando Joes is a resource used in school with whole classes, groups or individuals to develop our RESPECT character traits. It will ensure that when pupils leave Woodfield they are prepared for the next stage in their life
  • Now Press Play – now>press>play is an immersive audio resource that brings the curriculum to life through sound, story and movement.
  • New subjects for 2020 – We now deliver Spanish lessons to our pupils and we have a music teacher who is teaching the ukulele and  guitar to pupils at Woodfield
  • I Want To Ride My Bike Lessons – We have welcomed Dave in from- I Want To Ride My Bike – to deliver cycling lessons to all pupils at Woodfield.

Woodfield Primary School, School of the Week

What changes have you had to make due to Covid-19?

  • We have thorough morning cleaning before pupils arrive, and during the day cleaning in order to support with ongoing cleaning and sanitising.
  • The school day has two start and finish times to support social distancing.
  • Break times are staggered to ensure the children in different bubbles do not mix. 
  • Lunchtimes have three different start and finishing times with children being expected to stay in their section of the playground and use their bubble’s equipment.
  • No after school clubs are currently being run to ensure staff have time to mark work at school and leave the building promptly.
  • Teaching Assistants are based in consistent learning bubbles where possible, although there are occasions where they are required to work across two bubbles. This is to ensure we have the correct ratio of adults to pupils. Where this happened, staff follow guidance on good hand hygiene and social distancing.
  • Senior leaders are not accessing learning bubbles and all staff are encouraged to maintain social distancing in staff rooms and classrooms.
  • Pupils who attend breakfast club are sat at tables with other pupils from their bubble. We have had no incidents of pupils moving between bubbles in our school.

Woodfield Primary School, School of the Week

During the first few weeks, staff spent a lot of time talking to children about returning to school and how they felt and had coped. We have carefully planned a recovery curriculum for the year to look at what children missed in the summer term and how this might be taught and curriculum priorities agreed.

We appreciate how difficult it was to home school children. Teachers posted home learning challenges on a weekly basis on the class pages on the school website. We also delivered home learning packs to those families who were unable to access the school website.

We will be in the same situation again if we are told individuals, families or bubbles are told to self-isolate. Staff already have work planned that will be posted on our school app or the class pages on the school website. It is essential all parents sign up to the parents app (please contact the office if you need any assistance).

We continue to have times in the day when teachers discuss how children are feeling and because of learning bubbles all teachers and Teaching Assistants are spending break times with pupils when they can have ‘little individual chats’ when they are checking in with their pupils. We are finding however that the majority of our children just want things to be as normal as can be and we are taking their lead on this.

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