Curriculum Overview

Our curriculum is aligned with those of our sponsor, Ormiston Academies Trust that:

• It is the ‘totality of the experience of the child’, extending between the ages of 11 and 16
• It includes both the formal timetabled curriculum and all the informal learning and development that occurs outside the timetable, including the development of children’s personal, social and cultural capital.
• Our curriculum maps show how we move our children from a state where they have not acquired specific knowledge, skills, experience and dispositions, to a state where they have acquired these, as part of a learning journey.
• It involves a deliberate choice to select, from all the possible knowledge, skills, experiences and
dispositions, those which we believe pupils should acquire. How our teachers are trained, the
materials they use and how they deliver the learning is all part of the totality of the experience.
• It responds to well-designed assessment which tells us whether pupils have acquired what was
intended.