Spiral Curriculum
Our curriculum places a strong emphasis on equipping students with essential knowledge, skills, and a solid foundation for adult life. In Key Stage 3, we introduce new knowledge and skills within both classroom and home settings:
- Retrieval and augmenting: students will repeatedly revisit and enhance their knowledge and skills, with each revisit involving a higher level of challenge. Additionally, this process will encompass a wide range of topics, ensuring a diverse and enriching learning experience.
- Translating skills across settings: students progress from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 5, they will receive support and opportunities to apply their acquired skills across various settings. This journey begins in the classroom and at home, extends throughout the school environment, and ultimately extends into the broader community
We offer a wide-ranging and inspiring educational experience that exposes students to a variety of rich learning opportunities across diverse topics. Our approach follows the spiral curriculum model, which means that students revisit essential skills and knowledge at intervals as they progress through their educational journey. Each revisit builds upon their previous knowledge and skills, helping them become more proficient and enabling them to apply what they've learned in various contexts. This process begins in the classroom and extends outward into the community.
Sequential Learning Across Key Stages
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Key Stage 3 Laying the foundations – Classroom and Home |
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Key Stage 4 Building on foundations – Around the School |
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Key Stage 5 – Sixth Form Preparation for Adulthood – In the Community |
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