Scarborough's Wheatcroft Community Primary School welcomes new Headteacher
Jayne Watson, thenew interim head at Wheatcroft Primary School, hopes to have a “real impact” and embed a new curriculum.
The post, originally advertised as a single-term headship, has been filled by Ms Watson for the academic year.
She said: “We decided it would be better for it to be at least a year, so that we could have some impact and make some purposeful changes.”
One of those changes being the implementation of a new curriculum.
Started last year, Ms Watson hopes to see the new programme properly embedded.
While still rooted in the national curriculum, the school’s newly implemented learning framework aims to move away from ‘topic’-based learning, where multiple disciplines are taught under an over-arching theme, toward subject-based teaching.
She said: “It’s about making sure that the children have a really clean knowledge of all the foundation subjects.
"So, they learn to be geographers, they learn to be historians, and we’re really clear about knowledge and skills as they develop.
"We want them to be able to understand the world around them and the bespoke subject, to then be ready for secondary school and adulthood.”
Originally from Scarborough, having attended and taught at Northstead Community Primary School, Ms Watson has been a Headteacher at four different Lincolnshire schools, her last six-year position being at a school in Grantham.
She said she is excited to have “come home” and feels “very lucky” to have been selected for the position at Wheatcroft, adding: "What a lovely, friendly school it is.
"It’s very welcoming and has a real community feel.”
Wheatcroft Community Primary School will be holding open days over the coming months, the first being on October 14.
Visit the school website to find out more.