Curriculum Aims:

  • Our curriculum is designed to be broad, balanced and ambitious for all students. The intention is to ensure that our inclusive curriculum meets the needs of all of our students and prepares that for life in modern Britain.

 

Our curriculum aims:

  • To provide equality of opportunity for all students
  • To be appropriate and relevant to our students
  • To be progressive, spaced and appropriately sequenced
  • To develop literacy, numeracy and a love for reading
  • To provide continuity and challenge as students move from key stage 3 to 4
  • To ensure that our students keep themselves healthy, both emotionally and physically.
  • To ensure that students have the necessary skills to build and forge positive relationships
  • To ensure that students keep themselves safe in a fast-moving digital age
  • To contribute effectively to students’ social, moral, cultural and spiritual development, promoting the British Values of: democracy, mutual respect and tolerance of others’ faiths and beliefs.
  • To be appropriate for the age, ability,  gender and ethnicity of students
  • To provide access to extra-curricular activities for the purpose of enrichment
  • To prepare our students for the next stage of their education, training or employment.

 

By ensuring an inclusive curriculum, our purpose is to develop students:

  • who are respectful, empathetic and self-aware of others’ views, beliefs and values
  • who are capable of making wise decisions because they are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
  • who are not disadvantaged by social context
  • who have the confidence, resilience and determination to succeed
  • who have high expectations of themselves with a clear vision for their future
  • who are happy and healthy and who can pursue healthy lifestyles
  • who will thrive and are prepared for life after Boldon School.