Principles

Our curriculum is founded on the principles that we want to provide all our young people with a route to academic and vocational success, through personalised programmes of study that will enable them to achieve their highest potential in education, training and work.

Our curriculum aims to:

• Improve outcomes in English and Maths by developing pupils’ CORE SKILLS, address gaps in their knowledge and build on what has been taught before.
• Identify pupils’ needs quickly and then initiate a PERSONALISED approach in order to meet those specific needs.
• Ensure that our pupils see the value of what they are learning through real life experiences which make it RELEVANT to their lives.
• Promote achievement for everyone and ensure all pupils are valued, safe, nurtured, healthy, active and INCLUDED.
• Provide the platform to challenge, ENGAGE and motivate our young people in their learning.
• Implement a rigorous approach to the teaching of READING which develops pupils’ confidence and enjoyment in reading.
• Develop a learning environment where teachers develop strong RELATIONSHIPS with their pupils and are able to have a positive effect on pupils’ self esteem and are allowed the time and space in the curriculum for character education.
• Meet the needs of our pupils with SEND and give them the knowledge and culture capital to succeed in life.
• Encourage pupils to reflect on their own learning, strengths and areas to develop and identify the NEXT STEPS on their learning journey.