What are our ultimate goals?

The curriculum will be organised to provide our children with deep knowledge and skills to achieve cultural capital and success in life. We will aim to:

• Provide a broad and balanced education for all pupils;
• Be accessible for all pupils, considering all ability ranges, including those with SEND;
• Provide pupils with the ability to develop a deep learning of knowledge and the mechanisms for retrieving and applying knowledge.
• Ensure literacy is at the heart of everything, including embedding a wide and rich vocabulary across the curriculum.
• Inspire and challenge all learners to aspire to high achievement;
• Ensure pupils’ knowledge is fully developed to support their social, moral, spiritual and cultural awareness to promote diversity and key values;
• Develop pupils who are tolerant, respectful and understanding;
• Provide equal opportunities for all pupils, with high expectations for every learner ensuring appropriate levels of challenge and support;
• Develop key skills such as teamwork; independence, resilience; responsibility; and communication;
• Ensure pupils have a wide knowledge of career opportunities in a local and wider national context;
• Provide pupils with leadership opportunities to develop strength of character and self-confidence;
• Ensure pupils’ have wider opportunities to develop an interest and fascination in subjects and topics that interest them or that might interest them;
• Consider barriers to learning, linked to the local context and the circumstances faced by individual students;
• Promote an awareness of key issues such as healthy living; democracy and national and international events.