Young people deserve equal opportunity to access a broad and balanced curriculum.
Inclusion is at the heart of the curriculum design with a variety of accredited vocational courses on offer to all students that match their skills and abilities. The Academy seeks to match curriculum opportunities to the preferred learning styles of each student to maximise levels of engagement and raise standards.
In allowing equal access to curriculum and learning opportunities, we will develop our Academy in a manner that allows personalised learning with due regard to individual learning styles and the advantages of independent learning skills. We will use appropriate assessment strategies and methods to identify and foster individual creativity, qualities and skills. Assessment for learning will form an important route towards the facilitation of the progress of individual learners. Environmental design and resource allocation will be a significant factor in allowing individual education plans to be administered.
The Academy curriculum will be developed to deliver key outcomes progressively with full implementation in the new building by:
The specialist focus of the Academy will be Global Communication which will build on, and develop the existing strengths of the predecessor schools. Students in KS3 will follow a competency based curriculum, alongside the core subjects of English, Maths, Science and PE. They will be based in designated teaching spaces. The curriculum will be delivered through cross-curricular projects designed to encourage both collaborative and independent work, emotional literacy, social skills and a development of the essential learning skills required to access the curriculum further up the school. This will mean that there will be much less disorientating movement around the school and students and staff in Year 7 in particular, will form closer and stronger relationships much more quickly, supporting their transition to a larger Academy.
Throughout the rest of Key Stage 3, students will follow the National Curriculum with innovative approaches to teaching and learning that will develop the skills of enterprise and communication and will provide a wide variety of opportunities both in the timetabled day and during out of hours learning.
Year 8 and 9 students will be given the opportunity to make certain curriculum choices in preparation for Key Stage 4.
In Year 10, students will have access to a variety of ‘pathways’ which will give them the right mix of vocational and academic learning to suit their own particular strengths and styles of learning. A wide range of choices is being made available, building on those which have traditionally been offered in the predecessor schools.
Year 11 students will have full access to all GCSE courses they have been studying in Year 10 to ensure continuity in their studies.
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