Key Stage 5
CURRICULUM AIM
What does the Curriculum empower our students to achieve?
What do we see during this stage of their learning?
The curriculum is designed to help students realise:
- Transition into further education, employment and supported or independent living provisions
- Confidence and self-esteem
- High levels of responsibility and respect in society
CURRICULUM TARGETS
- To empower students to manage their emotions appropriately
- To empower students to make suitable social interactions
- To empower students to develop personal independent activity
- To empower students to demonstrate intellectual capacity
LEARNING FOR LIFE & WORK
What areas of learning for life and future work / training do we develop through the current curriculum?
- Social and emotional development
- Personal development and independence
- Financial awareness and capability
- Employability
- Supported living
- Responsible citizenship
KEY ELEMENTS
What are the fundamental components that underpin skills and knowledge across the curriculum?
- Personal understanding
- Personal health and well-being
- Respect for others
- Personal challenge
- Ethical awareness
- Citizenship
- Cultural understanding
- Media awareness
- Equality and diversity
- Employability
- Financial awareness
- Life-long learning
CROSS-CURRICULAR SKILLS & THINKING SKILLS
What cross-curricular skills do we value?
What range of thinking skills are used to develop learning?
Ensuring learning difficulties and disabilities are matched to thinking skills.
- Independence & responsibility
- Self-esteem & confidence
- Self-worth & self-value
- Respect for self and others
- Social engagement
- Interaction with peers, adults and the public
- Communication skills
- Flexibility & organisational skills
- Reading and writing
- Numeracy & ICT
- Role models to younger pupils
- Assisting staff with activities for KS3 and KS4 pupils
Students are given opportunities to learn how to:
- Define a problem, enquire and predict outcomes
- Understand cause & effect
- Make connections, investigate, sort and classify, sequence and summarise
- Memorise, recall, compare, contrast, imagine, modify and make deductions
- Draw inferences, reason, explain, evaluate and create
AREAS OF LEARNING
Suites / topics / opportunities etc.
- Core
English, Maths, ICT, Personal Social Development (PSD), Financial Awareness - Vocational
Hair & Beauty, Film & Media, Sport & Leisure, Community Enterprise - Options
Cooking, Gardening, Local Studies, DIY previously students offered Music, Creative Studies and PE - Offsite activities
College link programme, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Independence Skills in travel, accessing the community, shopping, personal care and moving on. Gym and fitness - Complimentary activities
Where appropriate – physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, occupational therapy, riding for the disabled and work experience
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
How are students engaged and their learning optimised to help with real-world challenges?
- Collaboration and partnership working
- Investigation & problem solving
- Relevant to daily experiences
- Challenging and enjoyable
- Media-rich and creative
- Integrative and engaging
- Encouraging independence
- Active and hands-on
- Student-led / student-centred
- Choice based and personalised
- Supportive and caring
- Culturally diverse
- Positive reinforcement
- Differentiated and reflective
- Structured yet flexible
- Understanding boundaries
- Knowing about expectations
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
How does assessment aid the students’ learning?
Through assessment in 16+ we:
- Build an open relationship between the students, teachers and support staff
- Have clear learning intentions shared with students
- Share and negotiate success criteria
- Have whole group and individual target setting
- Take risks to enhance learning
- Advise on what to improve and how to improve it
- Enable peer and self-assessment
- Celebrate success
- Encourage peer and self-evaluation of learning
ATTITUDES & DISPOSITIONS
What attitudes to learning and dispositions are clearly evident across the 16+ Curriculum?
- Compassion – Achievement – Respect - Responsibility
- Care and concern for others
- Willingness to challenge self
- Commitment and determination
- Openness to new ideas and suggestions
- Understanding of progressional routes
- Where there is choice there is consequence
- Team spirit
- Flexibility