Curriculum Statement
The Glossopdale School Curriculum from Year 7 to Year 13 aims to:
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Deliberately, precisely and robustly address social disadvantage while ensuring meaningful, connected and long-term learning for all students |
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By: Providing varied and ambitious subject curricula that accelerate students’
Carefully sequencing the teaching of skills and knowledge within year groups and across key stages to:
Based on evidence and research, developing subject and whole school pedagogical approaches to:
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| Widen all students’ access to, knowledge, understanding and experience of cultural capital |
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By: Embedding opportunities to learn about:
Providing engaging resources and opportunities such as:
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| Develop the essential learning habits and values needed to support academic progress, cultivate personal integrity and foster motivation to learn |
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By: Explicitly teaching and fostering the school’s learning habits:
Explicitly teaching and fostering the school’s learning habits:
Using the following mechanisms:
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| Improve and develop standards of written and oral Literacy |
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By: Embedding the following in every subject curriculum:
Using varied and rich resources:
Accelerating the progress of Y7 students who arrive to use below the expected level:
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| Provide a wide variety of engaging, transformational extra-curricular activities that allow students to contribute, collaborate and lead within and beyond the school community |
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By: Offering clubs, trips, competitions, celebrations and awareness weeks to develop knowledge, skills and motivation in:
Creating valued and varied opportunities to become ambassadors and student leaders in the areas of:
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| Provide an education beyond the academic that improves students’ personal knowledge to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships and to build their self-efficacy |
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By: Delivering high quality, evidence-based and age-appropriate teaching of subjects fundamental to students’ personal development, helping to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life:
Promoting the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of students, at school and in society:
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| Ensure all of our students are fully prepared for the next stage of their education or employment |
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By: Explicitly teaching and mapping the following skills in relevant subject curriculum maps:
In addition to providing resources and opportunities such as:
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