To provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share.
Ambition: we maximise our potential through striving for excellence.
Teamwork: we give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.
Honesty: we are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.
The timetabled curriculum operates on a 2 week timetable, 10 x 20 minute tutor sessions each fortnight and 50 x 1 hour lessons each fortnight.
Each fortnight students will be timetabled: Tutor time (10 sessions), English (7 hours), Maths (7), Science (6), Languages (5), Technology (5), PE (4), History (2), Geography (2), RE (2), Art (2), Drama (2), ICT (2), PSHE (2), Music (1) and Dance (1). Parents/Carers have a right of withdrawal from all or part of RE.
Each fortnight students will be timetabled:
Tutor time (10 sessions), English (7 hours), Maths (7), Science (6), Languages (5), Technology (5), PE (4), History (2), Geography (2), RE (2), Art (2), Drama (2), ICT (2), PSHE (2), and Music (2). Parents/Carers have a right of withdrawal from all or part of RE.
Students will begin to study their option choices in year 9 and embark upon a 3-year key stage 4. Year 9 is a real opportunity for experiential learning in subject areas that students have a real desire to study. All subject areas, including Languages, The Arts, Technology and Vocational are available to all students who receive comprehensive IAG during this process and are encouraged to select from a range of faculty areas. Students are asked to specifically think about options choices being used to develop their employability skills (particularly those of resilience and creativity).
In addition, the school feels that spreading the key stage over three years rather than the traditional two has three major benefits. It allows for students to develop leadership traits, moral context and subject related skills that enhances their holistic views and cultural capital. It reduces the stress that staff and students feel under to cover the extra content in many of the GCSE subjects. This is beneficial to the mental health of all concerned (especially during year 11). Furthermore, the extra time that can be devoted to some of the options subjects, particularly those of a practical or vocational nature allows for a far greater opportunity for the development of the key employability skills referenced above. In this regard, the school have responded to the needs of the local D2N2 Enterprise network.
Each fortnight students will be timetabled:
Tutor time (10 sessions), English (9 hours), Maths (9), Science (6), PE (4), PSHE/RE (2), Option choice 1 (6), Option choice 2 (6), Option choice 3 (4), Option choice 4 (4). At least one of the option choices must be an EBacc subject (Languages, History or Geography). Parents/Carers have a right of withdrawal from all or part of RE.
The range of option choice subjects is as follows:
Art, Business Studies, Child Development, Computing, Construction, Creative Media, Dance, Drama, Design Technology, Engineering, Fashion, Food Preparation, French, German, Geography, Hair & Beauty Therapy, Health & Social Care, History, Hospitality & Catering, Music, Music Technology, Philosophy & Ethics, Photography, Physical Education, Spanish, Sport.
Each fortnight students will be timetabled: Tutor time (10 sessions), English (9 hours), Maths (9), Science (9), PSHE/RE (1), PE (2), Option choice 1 (6), Option choice 2 (6), Option choice 3 (4), Option choice 4 (4). Parents/Carers have a right of withdrawal from all or part of RE.
Each fortnight students will be timetabled:
Tutor time (10 sessions), English (9 hours), Maths (9), Science (9), PSHE (1), PE (2), Option choice 1 (6), Option choice 2 (6), Option choice 3 (4), Option choice 4 (4). Parents/Carers have a right of withdrawal from all or part of RE.
All subjects studied in key stage 3 and 4 have a pathway into Post 16.
We are ambitious for all our students. We support the view that everyone has equal access to the knowledge, skills and understanding that will enable them to make an exceptional contribution to the world we share. Local context will inform but not determine what is taught, and when it is taught. We deliver a high-value curriculum, which is of high-value to the individual, the school, and the community who we all serve.
By the end of Year 11 students will leave the academy with:
For full information on our curriculum intent please see the document linked below.
