Curriculum
Our curriculum aims to address the contextual issues that impact on pupils through bespoke pathways based on three strands: Learn, Grow and Thrive.
Learn develops pupils’ core needs through supporting their strengths and interests via the curriculum and their EHCP (Educational Health and Care Plan) targets.
Grow develops pupils’ ‘life experience’ needs: firstly by exposing them to worldly opportunities so that they can see the possibilities open to them; secondly, to increase pupils’ aspirations through enrichment activities and career pathways.
Thrive develops pupils’ well-being needs, through physical and mental health interventions.
Underpinning Learn, Grow, Thrive runs a whole school therapeutic approach based on developing relationships between staff, pupils and their families.
Our curriculum aims
- To provide opportunities to develop the whole child so that learners will be able to transfer their skills and knowledge into various real life contexts that will prepare and equip them for life in modern Britain in the 21st Century.
- To use precise planning to ensure that key skills and knowledge are at the forefront of the curriculum.
- To ensure that our curriculum, and therefore the learning, is balanced through ensuring equity and developing cross-curricular links to ignite children’s passions.
- To develop a strong sense of moral purpose in addition to respect, understanding and inclusion of people who have different characteristics to themselves, whether that be age, disability, gender, race or sexuality.
- To have high expectations of all learners and enable them to be ambitious risk takers.
- To nurture pupils to be able to live independently and to be active, contributing members of their community.
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