Curriculum Intent (click to expand)
We plan for students at Shaftesbury High School to have access to a rich and meaningful curriculum. The Shaftesbury High School curriculum focuses on subject-specific, transferable skills, and the development of knowledge. Progression through the Shaftesbury curriculum, across all Key Stages, is reflected by the pace at which our students learn.
Each curriculum area at Shaftesbury is clear on its intent for learning and how best to implement student access to the learning on offer. It is a curriculum that has clear and thoughtful impacts. Being mindful of this, some planned activities within Schemes of Work may continue to be taught in the following term (where appropriate).
The Shaftesbury High School core curriculum is based around the National Curriculum and is differentiated to meet the needs of the students. Some of our subjects, such as PSHE, Maths, and PE, have adopted a pathway-based, rather than by strict year-group divisions, approach. This pathway-based approach focuses on individual student needs and progression, providing targeted support and facilitating meaningful progress in these subject areas for all learners. Learners are baselined for reading and RWInc is used for those needing phonics intervention.
For some students we provide personalised Programmes of Study. Personalised Programmes of Study are offered to cater for varying student starting points, student needs and student abilities. Our subject teachers will always give a detailed indication of where the student is in their learning and the specifics of what they are working towards.
The Shaftesbury High School Curriculum is supported through effective assessment practices. We assess the student response to the implementations of our curriculum and match it against the curriculum intent as part of developing our curriculum.
Our end goal is that our students leave SHS with meaningful pathways open to them. These pathways include further education, the world of work, community engagement, and a sense of accomplishment.
Curriculum Overview (click to expand)
Curriculum Overview: What's on offer?
The Green curriculum is being implemented to ensure that we are meeting the needs of all learners at SHS. The number of learners at SHS is increasing that have SLD or have SLD learning needs. The Green curriculum is an EHCP first curriculum. Meeting the students' individual needs means that their learning needs can be met in each and every class. The Green curriculum timetable provides time to enable students to regulate and focus after breaks and lesson activities. Subjects taught include the core subjects such as English, maths and ICT alongside a broader Life Skills curriculum.
The Turquoise curriculum is to meet a new population of learners with SLD. The curriculum is developed to focus upon meaningful progress against each learner’s outcome statements within their Educational Health and Care Plan. Students may require special consideration around moving across the school as well exposure to aspects of both the Blue and Green curriculum. Students accessing the Turquoise curriculum may have personalised timetables to ensure they have access to curriculum that meets their individual needs. It may also be followed for those students who in maths and english have been identified as working below pre key stage standard 3 (This cross references with the students receiving G4-G7 levels on Evidence for Learning (EfL). Subjects taught include the core subjects such as English, Maths and ICT and others depending on the pupils needs.
The Blue curriculum is a subject specific curriculum that is both knowledge and skills rich. It has an emphasis on building the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to prepare them for their next step in education. Students follow a secondary model and move around the school and progress towards external accreditation.
Humanities Curriculum Map (Coming soon)
Digital Project Curriculum Map
