Our core curriculum / areas of learning are:

• Literacy, including Communication, Language and Literacy (CLL), Phonics and Reading for Pleasure
• Maths, including Cognition
• PSHE and RSHE, including Life Skills and Work-Related Learning where relevant
• Physical Development 
• Social Development (cross-curricular)
• Emotional Development (cross-curricular)

Our wider curriculum (with relevant adaptations for different learning pathways) includes:

• DT (Cookery)
• ‘Our World’ (Science, History, Geography, RE)
• ICT 
• Creative Arts
• Collective Worship

Each pathway has a termly theme / topic and an accompanying topic map. For example:

 

Importantly, our curriculum is not about teaching a topic or about a topic as such, in its own right, but rather, a topic is a context in which individual subjects and the appropriate skills and knowledge within them are taught. Outcomes in each subject build on each pupil’s existing skill set and show a clear understanding of progression to next (small) steps - a topic simply makes links and connections between areas of learning. This not only motivates by creating a ‘bigger picture’ but also supports our pupils’ long term memory. Please see above for an example of a topic map. Other examples of topics include ‘Earth Matters’ which incorporates animal science, global geography, outdoor sport, vegan cooking and contemporary texts about climate change and ‘Once Upon a Time’ which makes links between traditional tales, religious stories, relationships and fairy tale -inspired baking.