Curriculum Vision

It is our vision for each learner to develop a curiosity to explore, discover and investigate their place in the world, nurturing their love of learning . Our learners are supported to become independent, safe and happy individuals through a creative and personalised curriculum.

Intent

At Brooke School, learners will have a curriculum that:

• Develops essential knowledge across a broad range of subjects and provides opportunities to apply these in real world contexts to enrich their lives and create opportunities for future employment/training/education.
• Is uncompromisingly ambitious for learners at every stage of development.
• On an individual basis reflects their Education and Health Care Plans.
• Recognizes prior learning and is coherently planned and sequenced to build upon this in order to reinforce memory, master concepts and access new learning.
• Utilizes ongoing assessment to identify gaps in knowledge and understanding, and inform next steps.
• Enables them to explore their creativity and imagination and discover their personal interests and passions.
• Increases their cultural capital to become well-rounded and successful global citizens.
• Engages parents/carers as key stakeholders in their child’s learning and life.

Implementation

At Brooke School, we will:

• Give learners access to a variety of subjects, reviewing these periodically to capture new interests, and frequently engaging with local employers to investigate the local labor market to inform curriculum design.
• Plan our curriculum with the most aspirational end points as the target for all, and adapt plans in order to further meet the needs of learners.
• Use a range of data and assessment sources (which will detail the knowledge and skills mastered and those requiring further development) to plan learning sequences that will meet the needs of all individuals. As learners understanding develops, concepts will be revisited and taught in a more complex way in order for learners to know more and remember more.
• Use high quality resources which inspire our learners’ minds and will engage them in a number of creative projects throughout the year.
• All learners will have access to outdoor learning, providing hands-on experiences in the natural environment, developing personal and interpersonal skills, improving physical attributes and implementing and contextualising curriculum knowledge.
• Ensure that learners benefit from a well-planned, personal development curriculum which compliments the ‘taught curriculum’. Learners will have opportunities to meet visitors, providing access to outside experience and expertise and links to the wider community. Learners will visit places of cultural significance, museums, art galleries, theatres and other experiences unavailable in the classroom.
• Give all parents/carers full access to a portal that tracks learner progress using evidence. We will organise working parties where parents/carers propose and review curriculum content.
  
  In order to fulfill this, we will provide staff with excellent professional development that ensure that our curriculum design translates into high rates of progress.

Impact
Our aim is to ensure that:

• Every learner will have been prepared to fulfill their future life ambitions and 100% of learners will leave with an identified high-quality destination, at which they are successful.
• 100% of learners will have passed accreditation at a level appropriate to their stage of development by the time they leave school.
• Every learner will feel challenged but excellently supported to reach their full potential.
• All staff will know and understand their learners needs and learners will be able to recall information and frame it within a sequence of learning. Where gaps in knowledge and understanding are identified appropriate interventions will be put into place.
• Our learners will be engaged with all that they do and speak optimistically about the ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum.
• Learners can articulate their position within a sequence of learning in each subject and will meet stage related expectations.
• Learners can communicate about the world around them beyond their immediate community. All learners will be able to make a positive contribution to their communities.
• Parents/carers are well informed about the curriculum in order to have greater opportunities to support home learning.

Curriculum Pathways

Learners at Brooke follow a Curriculum Pathway most suited to their unique characteristics. Within each of our three Curriculum Pathways, we respond to the strengths and interests of individual learners and build on these by encouraging and rewarding active engagement in learning.

The key skills developed throughout each of our pathways are:

• Communication and Interaction
• Cognition and Learning
• Independence, self-help and personal safety
• Physical development, mental health and wellbeing

Through the development of these transferable skills, we prepare our learners for adult life.