Intent – What are we aiming to achieve through our curriculum?
To ensure a well varied curriculum is adapted each half term through our Year 8 themes.
Crime and Punishment – focussing on crime and punishment throughout the ages, how punishments have changed, looking at right and wrong and also how to make the right choices.
Film – focussing on film throughout the ages, how films are made, looking at characters and storylines and creating their own film.
Myths and Legends – focussing on Greek and Roman myths and how they have progressed over time, looking at local legends and creating our own mythical creatures.
Chocolate – focussing on the history of chocolate, how it is made, where it comes from and reading the story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Gaming – focussing on the development of gaming and technology over time, looking at coding and developing a good story for others to enjoy.
Summer – focussing on how to stay safe over the summer, looking at holiday destinations and how to book a holiday.
To provide education which is adapted to suit the needs of our students.
To provide a calm and safe learning environment that is learning focussed.
To ensure students are learning to the best of their ability.
To promote health and well-being.
To ensure students are building on their life skills in each lesson.
To ensure that our Valley Values are at the heart of learning.
Implementation – How are we delivering our curriculum?
To adapt learning to each student.
To teach through topics and build on knowledge and experiences.
To allow students to generalise and draw links more easily between subjects.
To build on numeracy and literacy skills.
To track progress termly to be able to share progress with families and use to support our students.
To provide home learning each half term to enable the students to build upon their learning at home.
To allow regular use of Class Dojo to promote sharing learning regularly with families and promoting student achievement.
Impact – What difference is the curriculum making to our students?
To enable all students to meet or exceed their expected progress in all subjects.
To provide a safe and exciting environment to make learning enjoyable and memorable.
To build confidence and resilience by regularly over learning learnt skills.
To ensure goals are reachable but stretching and challenging all students.
To enable students to be well prepared for access to the next stage of their education.
To ensure learning is purposeful and meaningful for students to independently make their own connections to lessons.
To enable students to access new experiences and opportunities both at school and in their community.
