Ofsted February 2024
With these changes in mind, leaders and staff completely overhauled the school’s curriculum. This work has been highly effective, with three curriculum pathways targeted carefully to meet different SEND needs. Across the range of subjects in each pathway, the precise knowledge that the school wants pupils to learn has been identified. Leaders and staff have a sharp focus on ensuring that the curriculum has a consistently strong impact on pupils’ learning and development. It is designed to give pupils the knowledge, skills and confidence that they need to prepare them to lead meaningful adult lives. The school’s high ambitions are met.
Curriculum Intent
At John Chilton School pupils are at the centre of the curriculum, and therefore its design and content aim to maximise the individual’s learning potential. We ensure that pupils’ personal priority needs are the starting point of their education, which we meet through personalised plans, interventions and adaptations
The curriculum is all the planned activities that we organise in order to promote learning, personal growth and development. It includes the formal requirements of the National Curriculum and, importantly, the range of additional priorities, specialist curriculum activities and therapy programmes that the school develops in order to engage, enable, empower and equip the pupils for life. It also incorporates the ethos and environment which promote the vision of the school of developing confident, independent and motivated learners.
The school has developed three pathways of learning that meet the different cohort needs of the pupils. Pupils can move between different pathways as their needs change over time. The pathways are differentiated by planning, approach and staffing support to be relevant to the cohorts of pupils.
Ambition for Pathways
The curriculum is designed, structured and sequenced to develop the knowledge and skills that the pupils are expected to gain at each phase.
Firstly, there is an ambitious intent of giving the pupils the experiences and opportunities that will develop knowledge and abilities to be an active participant in adult life. This is structured through the phases against the themes in Preparation for Adulthood and include the cultural capital they need to succeed in life.
Intent for Pathways
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Long term Curriculum Plans and Expected Outcomes
Subject content is planned with clear end points for each phase, while building on prior learning and taking account of the need to reinforce and recapitulate concepts to enable long term memory changes.
All pupils have access to a broad and balanced curriculum and depending on age or pathway, access this through a holistic, thematic approach or discrete subject lessons. The knowledge, skills and concepts are designated for each phase building on previous learning as the pupils move through the school. The expected outcomes for each pathway and end of phase are specified to encourage aspirational subject based learning.
Curriculum Long Term Plans & Expected Outcomes
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