Curriculum Statement

Brompton Academy Curriculum Provision

Brompton Academy has designed a curriculum which aims to:

• Maximise achievement

• Be flexible and responsive

• Offer a wide range of subjects to ensure students' options are open

• Promote aspiration and learning for life

• Build community cohesion

• Develop a clear sense of direction and focus for the future

• Value and develop students' sense of belonging, pride and self-esteem through the spirit of the Mini Schools

• Prepare students to make a positive contribution to Modern Britain

The curriculum is delivered with purpose and relevance to students ensuring the development of students' academic employability, personal and vocational skills. Flexibility offers greater choices for students and within the curriculum there is a rigorous focus on embedding and enhancing literacy and numeracy skills.

CURRICULUM APPROACH

The Academy has developed an academic approach with some flexibility tailored towards the more rigorous vocational courses. This approach enables us to focus on the needs of all students and maximises progression across the Academy. Learning takes place through the subjects within the Mini Schools, with dedicated staff providing wrap around support. There is a key focus on developing extended writing skills which undoubtedly maximises students’ achievements across all subject areas in the curriculum.

A key component of the core curriculum offer is the Personal and Professional Development Programme delivered in PSHE lessons for Key Stage 3 students and delivered in bespoke tutor time sessions to Key Stage 4 students. This programme aims to address barriers to learning and raises aspirations. Learning modules include personal effectiveness, community enrichment, business and enterprise, careers, leisure, health, wellbeing and spirituality.

Each student has a Personal Tutor with whom he/she meets on a daily basis during the Academy day.

The teaching strategies adopted by the Academy enable the curriculum to be organised for students to study and learn within a variety of settings and situations. Groups are set by ability in core subjects. In other subjects, students follow a range of different pathways according to their range of abilities.

The academy is arranged in five Mini Schools, Darwin, Turing, Rutherford, Woolf and Keynes, where the curriculum is divided into phases of learning for each key stage.

The Academy offers a wide range of courses to engage higher-attaining students and additionally supports those students who might experience difficulties with learning.

Students leave Brompton Academy with good qualifications and a strong sense of direction and purpose for the future.

If you would like more information about our curriculum please contact our Vice Principal, Dan Greenwood who will be pleased to assist you.