Education Links

Our Curriculum offer

Intent

Our curriculum is differentiated and tailored precise for every learner:

progressive; relevant; exciting; challenging; inspirational; sequenced; and (re)engaging.

Fostering enquiry-based learning and promoting a thirst for knowledge, maximising academic potential and personal/social development, enhancing future life chances through a nurturing approach.

At Education Links we recognise that every person has the ability to achieve and we provide a safe environment for students to share and learn. In order to create confident individuals who can independently achieve success in their communities, we provide our students with a broad and balanced curriculum that allows for seamless reintegration into mainstream school or scope for a wide range of further educational pathways.

Vision

When a student leaves our school we want them to:

• have plans in place for their future
• enjoy learning and see the value of lifelong learning
• have respect and understanding for themselves and others, regardless of differences
• have productive roles as a contributing member of society
• know how to maintain a healthy body and mind
• have achieved their best academic outcomes
• We believe our nurturing and therapeutic curriculum allows all pupils to achieve these outcomes.

At Education Links we understand the importance of developing all aspects of a student’s character; and so offer a holistic education promoting progress in all areas – socially, intellectually, creatively and culturally. Fundamental to this is equipping students with the tools to support their social and emotional wellbeing now and in the future.

The delivery of our nurturing and therapeutic curriculum ensures students' learn and remember more; extend their knowledge and are given opportunities to make concrete links between topics and subjects. At the heart of our curriculum is the development of students interests and talents with a rich, deep and ambitious diet. Using an enquiry-based learning approach we promote creativity and leadership within our students to support them becoming lifelong learners with the skills and attributes they need to succeed in careers, new and exciting adventures in the rapidly changing world we live in. Therefore, the enquiry-based curriculum needs to be rich, deep, aspirational, creative, relevant and meet the needs of our students, following a comprehensive programme of subjects with a strong focus on reading and literacy. Students' will hone their leadership skills through a range of activities including The Jack Petchey Award, and many sporting opportunities and extracurricular, enrichment activities.

Formative assessment is planned to ensure learning is broad and effective. Our curriculum is carefully sequenced with timely support and intervention to fill gaps in learning allowing students to make accelerated progress. Our curriculum allows for individual personalised pathways to support individual needs and build upon students’ prior knowledge whilst providing appropriate challenge.

It is important that we recognise students’ personal starting points, we acknowledge some may have not had a positive experience of education and it is our job to change this. We believe in learning for enjoyment and equipping our pupils for the world beyond school. Hence our school motto: 'More than just a school'.

For further curriculum details, please contact curriculum lead:

Alan Austin: alan.austin@education-links.org

Education Links offers a broad and balanced curriculum at Key Stage 3 and 4 . We offer the following subjects: