We believe that all pupils in our schools will experience a high quality education ensuring that all children gain the cultural capital necessary for a choice-filled life.
Our schools are based on three simple ideas.
Firstly, all pupils in our school experience a high-quality education ensuring that they gain the cultural capital necessary for a choice-filled life. Our motto is ‘Aspire to Be More’ and throughout their time with us, children have:
Unlimited ideas and dreams that can make the world a better place.
A vision of what they want to achieve in life and how to achieve it.
A strong sense of duty, responsibility and service.
Care and compassion towards each other, within the local community and the wider world.
Choice-filled lives and the desire and motivation to develop as a good person.
A positive contribution to local communities and wider society and a zest for living life to the full.
The second idea is that a great school is built on a GREAT curriculum which we call our Curriculum for Social Justice. This has two strands to it:
a strong academic layer, which gives children a foundation of intellectual capital, so that they can go on to live choice-filled lives.
This curriculum has the following characteristics:
A sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum carefully planned into a learning programme cycle. All children know what they are learning in advance and explicitly understand how well they are doing and what they need to improve further.
Equally important is the promotion of social capital which we call the Be More Curriculum. This includes wider opportunities for sport, music, drama, art, outdoor education and travel alongside the necessary behaviours to be good citizens focussing on the development of our children’s moral virtues and skills.
The final and most important idea is that our school is entirely inclusive. Every child, regardless of need or background are known and cared for as the unique person they are. All pupils have equal access to our curriculum. Our schools offer a strong values-based curriculum with a key emphasis on teaching a moral compass.
We believe that by raising aspirations in our community, we can successfully develop in our children the understanding that learning is the route to a choice-filled life. We believe that improving educational outcomes is the only way we can positively impact on our pupils’ futures.
Essentially our schools will have:
a knowledge rich curriculum that everyone has access to, based on high expectations.
a Be More Curriculum.
an Annual Learning Programme Cycle which provides a routine and rhythm of learning taking place week-by-week. An assessment cycle lies at the heart of this, designed to enable all pupils to achieve.
a Monitoring for Achievement quality assurance system that swiftly addresses under achievement and under performance.
an FFET Awards programme designed to capture and celebrate pupils’ social and intellectual capital achievements.
a consistent approach to how we teach and how pupils learn.
a robust CPD programme and recruitment and retention strategy to ensure all our staff are the very best.
