“Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand”

Whittington Primary School’s Inquiry Learning curriculum aims to equip students with the knowledge, understanding, skills and values to take advantage of opportunity and face challenges within the dynamic world in which they live in today.

Through rich, holistic and flexible inquiry units, students are provided challenging, and stimulating learning experiences, allowing them to explore and build on their knowledge and understandings.

Whittington Primary School’s Inquiry Learning curriculum encourages students to develop their capacity to take an active role in their learning; by taking on personal responsibility and ownership of their learning.

Our Inquiry Learning curriculum aims to provide students with several essential skills to support them to become successful learners. Each student’s developing metacognitive processes are enhanced through critical questioning, investigation, application, reflection and evaluation.