Curriculum: Aims and Values

Aims

 

  • Provide a broad, balanced, relevant education for all pupils that’s coherently planned and sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient knowledge for skills and future learning and employment
  • Nurture engagement, curiosity and innovation, bringing learning to life
  • Enable pupils to develop knowledge, understand concepts and acquire skills, and be able to choose and apply these in relevant situations
  • Support pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
  • Empower all students to reach their full potential
  • Develop a love of learning
  • Ensure high expectations and aspirations for every pupil and give appropriate levels of challenge and support pupils whatever their needs.
  • Equip pupils with the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life
  • Develop pupils’ independent learning skills and resilience, to equip them for further/higher education and employment
  • At its heart is the principle that every child deserves rich, fun, engaging and broad learning experiences.
  • Rooted in a proven pedagogy based on how children learn best.
  • Encompasses all areas of learning and allows students to make connections through a topic-based approach
  • Our curriculum is also designed to promote the key skills of communication, cognition, independence, physical development, personal development and self-care

 

Values

 

The curriculum at QE2 is underpinned by our core values, care, creativity and empowerment. We believe that our curriculum encompasses and develops the whole child. The curriculum that we follow is holistic and is adapted to the individual needs of every pupil. Most importantly our pupils should develop a feeling of self-worth and a positive outlook on life, which fosters such values as: caring, tolerance, co-operation, honesty and respect. This is reflected in the general ethos of the school and more specific experiences are provided both through our curriculum and through incidental learning, giving responsibility and positive reinforcement as well as a good role model provided consistently by adults.

Pupils are also encouraged to develop an awareness of different religions, and to appreciate the arts and our environment.