THE ORION Eden park CURRICULUM IS INCLUSIVE AND AIMS TO IGNITE ALL STUDENTS WITH A LIFELONG LOVE OF LEARNING.
Our curriculum is broad, knowledge rich and engaging, underpinned by a set of relevant skills to broaden students’ horizons and ensure the holistic development of all our young people. Our students are exposed to high level academic and social opportunities that raise their ambition and empower them for success in the real world to prepare them for their future. We are committed to increasing the cultural capital of our young people within a community built on the values of Trust, Kindness and Endeavour, to achieve strong outcomes for all.
inclusive
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Inclusion and Equity are guiding principles for all policies and practices
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Curriculum and assessment systems are designed to be effective for all learners
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High-quality support in place for all learners to access a full, broad and balanced curriculum
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Diversity is celebrated and all non-inclusive, discriminatory and inequitable practices are challenged
focused
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Some knowledge is of greater importance and use
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The most important knowledge for each unit has been carefully considered
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This most important content is intentionally shared repeatedly with pupils
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Assessments are created to track students’ progress through this powerful knowledge
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Responsive teaching results in teachers identifying and repairing gaps in this powerful knowledge
coherent
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Our 'Big Ideas' fit into our curriculum principle coherent, ensuring our curriculums are built on coherent schema running across the 5 years. Schemas (sometimes referred to as mental models, scripts, or frames) are structures that organise knowledge in the mind.
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Our curriculums, develop and refine learners’ prior conceptions as opposed to teaching something entirely new.
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Our approach to working with schemas focuses on pupils organising and elaborating on their ideas to develop more complex mental structures. We do this through the development of our subject specific Big Ideas that run through the 5 year curriculum.
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The relevant Big Idea is referenced at the start of each lesson through the curriculum slide, to orientate the learners within the curriculum.
SEQUENCED
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Curriculum content is mapped to ensure that pupils meet new content when they are ready for it
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Curriculum plans ensure that linked content is revisited at regular intervals
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This provides opportunities to check prior learning
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Students remember more content because of this spaced practice
KS3 Curriclum Organisation
- We are an 8 form entry school with 30 students per class
- Our curriculum is based on 2 sides of the year group with 4 groups on each side. One side is the E side and one side the P side
- Students are placed in a form group (forms A-D are on the E side and form E-H are on the P side)
- Students are then placed in different teaching groups (teaching groups A-D are on the E side and teaching groups E-H are on the P side)
- Students are set in Maths but all other classes at KS3 are mixed ability teaching groups
- For technology double lessons we split the groups further so there are only 20 students in a class and this may therefore be a combination of group A,B - C,D - E,F or G,H
KS4 Curriclum Organisation
- At KS4 there remain two sides of the year groups but students may be moved between the sides due to setting in Maths, English and Science
- Students select 4 option choices
- There are 100minutes of PE timetabled per week
AT EDEN PARK WE PROMISE TO ...
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Embed a knowledge rich sequential curriculum in all subjects.
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Identify the most powerful knowledge to teach through big ideas subject knowledge organisers to scaffold and support your child’s learning journey.
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Embed teaching and learning strategies that ensure that effective learner habits are established that lead to strong outcomes for every student.
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Offer high quality SEND provision to ensure strong outcomes for our students.
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Increase the opportunities for literacy across the disciplines, for every child to develop a love of reading.
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Ensure that all students are exposed to CEIAG and Higher Education opportunities in each year group.
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Deliver high quality PHSE provision to enable students to make the right personal choices at all stages of life including Relationship and Sex Education.
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Raise cultural capital across the disciplines including British Values and Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural development.
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Offer a wide range of extracurricular activities to allow our students to excel in both academia and within their own specialist areas outside of the normal classroom.