The Curriculum
The curriculum strategy aims to:
- Deliver an adapted National Curriculum and offer a broad and balanced curriculum at a level appropriate to pupils’ prior attainment
- Provide stimulating activities and tasks
- Set challenging, achievable targets for individual pupils
- Develop effective communication skills
- Develop technological skills which prepare pupils for the advancing world
- Encourage the tolerance of opinions and beliefs and reflect the multicultural nature of society
- Develop self-confidence and skills towards independent living
- Encourage a caring, respectful attitude towards each other
- Ensure continuity and progression
- Enable access for all pupils
- Use enrichment activities to enhance the education offered to pupils
- Engage professionals within the community, including therapists, sports coaches, artists, musicians
Literacy and Numeracy Provision
English and maths will be taught daily with a high priority placed on reading across the curriculum and reading for pleasure, as well as functional literacy and numeracy. Pupils will be encouraged to apply their skills, knowledge and understanding in the real world setting in a wide variety of learning outside the classroom activities.
Enrichment Programme
We believe that providing our pupils with a range of new experiences, as well as learning in areas of their personal interest. Building character, resilience and learning to cope in a variety of settings beyond those which are familiar day to day are all crucial for our pupils. Pupil voice is key to planning these aspects of the curriculum and therefore the enrichment programme is likely to change from term to term and year to year. Some examples of activities may include:
Residential visits
Water sports
Outdoor education
Arts-based learning
ICT & Computing
Pupils across the key stages will have access to weekly computing lessons, underpinned by the National Curriculum. Pupils will have access to technologies to enhance their learning across the curriculum and prepare them well for the modern world with e-safety carefully woven across all elements to ensure that pupils know how to keep safe when accessing devices and technologies both in and outside of school.
Key Stage 2 Curriculum
Our intent for the Key Stage 2 curriculum is that pupils are re-engaged with a love of learning, that they develop their confidence and self-esteem so that they are motivated to learn and take pride in their achievements. There will be a strong emphasis on becoming increasingly self-aware and extending their emotional vocabulary through the Zones of Regulation curriculum.
Key Stage 3 Curriculum
Our intent for the Key Stage 3 curriculum is that pupils will better understand themselves and develop their interests, raising aspirations so that they are fully engaged in the process of exploring future opportunities. The curriculum will scaffold pupils in their journey towards independence with an emphasis on life skills and their personal and social development.
Key Stage 4 Curriculum
Our intent for the Key Stage 4 curriculum is that all pupils will be fully prepared for their transition to a post-16 provision of choice, through a personalised pathway tracked through the Gatsby benchmarks. We will support them in elevating their self-esteem and constructing their own identity as young adults so that they then have the confidence to be fully independent and engage positively in society.