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Curriculum

Knowledgeable and Expert Learners - Curriculum

Beckfoot Oakbank Curriculum Summary and Intent  2023-24

 

At Beckfoot Oakbank our curriculum intent aims to provide an excellent education for all our students that prepares them to for future successes in both education and life.  

Our intention is that our curriculum will inspire learners to be confident communicators, knowledgeable and expert learners, committed community contributors and future-ready young people. The growth and personal development of our students is integral to all that we do: in lessons, through effective tutoring and through opportunities beyond the classroom. 

Based on a detailed review of our local context and an improved understanding of the deep-seated barriers to raising standards over time, senior and middle leaders and their teams have identified a clear rationale for the specific knowledge skills and understanding of for each subject. 

As a school we reverted to a three-year key stage three with effect from September 2020 to allow us to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum for as long as possible. Our curriculum plans align with the National Curriculum and Key Stage 4/5 specifications. 

The curriculum is progressive in quality and quantity across the years and key stages and mapped in precise detail. Subject leaders have identified clearly defined end points for each year of key stage 3 and curriculum plans identify how students will acquire the knowledge skills and understanding and then apply this knowledge at each stage. This is supported by robust assessment processes. The links below will take you to our parent guides which map put the curriculum by each year group and our subject intent documents. 

The curriculum offer has been designed to allow for an additional focus on improving standards in reading. All students can access the full range of national curriculum subjects and are supported to make appropriate choices as they enter KS4 and KS5. Ebacc take up has historically been low, with limited success but over time the curriculum will begin to address and support students to opt for and be more successful in appropriately challenging curriculum, pathways.  Choices at KS4/5 reflect both the local employment market and routes that students wish to take to employment and higher education. 

The tutorial programme is a key element of our curriculum and is focussed on raising aspirations, personal development and tackling social disadvantage.

We have tailored provision for students with cognition and learning needs (nurture) and a bespoke provision for students with SEMH needs (our wave 4 provision). A small group of less able students in each year group and those in nurture groups are currently disapplied from modern foreign languages to accelerate their development of basic literacy skills, particularly reading, and basic numeracy skills. The nurture pathway is appropriately challenging and ambitious for the small cohort of students who access it. The 2023 -24 curriculum model will provide a languages experience for all students. 

Statutory requirements for RE and RSE are met and delivered through the Open Minds curriculum and tutor programme supported by wider learning days if  required Provision for SMSC is mapped throughout the curriculum and key stages. 

Opportunities to broaden student horizons are integral to our curriculum intent allows for student enrichment, the development of student leadership programmes and the development of cultural capital which begin to address some of the contextual factors that impact on our students. 

 

Our Curriculum Provision

Year 7 Parent Guide and Curriculum Plan 2023-24

Year 8 Parent Guide and Curriculum Plan 2023-24

Year 9 Parent Guide and Curriculum Plan 2023-24

Year 10 Parent Guide and Curriculum Plan 2023-24

Year 11 Parent Guide and Curriculum Plan 2022-23

Curriculum Intent 2022-23

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Qualifications Explained 

 

Jobs of the Future 

https://futuregoals.co.uk/jobs-of-the-future/ 

  

Career Roles Outside the Box 

https://futuregoals.co.uk/career-roles-outside-the-box/ 

  

Identifying Skills 

https://futuregoals.co.uk/skills/ 

  

Careers Activities 

https://futuregoals.co.uk/remote/