CURRICULUM
Our ambition for our students is that of the national curriculum. However, we recognise the barriers that many of our students face and so the ways in which students access our core curriculum is driven by need pertaining to their EHC plans. The core offer is complemented by both our wider and bespoke curriculums detailed below:
Core Curriculum (KS3)
- ART
- ENGLISH
- GEOGRAPHY
- MATHS
- SCIENCE
- PSHE
- PE
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Wider Curriculum
Our wider curriculum focuses on the personal development of our students, ensuring they have rich, cultural experiences that develop LORIC skills. The wider curriculum consists of:
- Breaking Barriers
- Enrichment
- Cooking
Core Curriculum (KS4)
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- ENGLISH LITERATURE
- CITIZENSHIP
- MATHS
- BIOLOGY
- PSHE
- PE
- OPTIONS:
- BTEC HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
- NCFE SPORT
- FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH
- FUNCTIONAL MATHS
- DIGITAL FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Bespoke Curriculum
Our bespoke curriculum is based on the needs of each student and, in an academic sense, serves to provide the fundamentals on which to build in order to be able to access English and maths within the core curriculum. We also recognise the therapeutic support that our students require and this forms a key part of the curriculum offer:
- AQA Unit Awards
- Art Workshops (Y11)
- Thrive Counselling
- Drawing & Talking Therapy
- Butterfly Counsellling
- Numeracy Intervention (Numerise)
- Literacy Intervention (Accelerated Reader and Lexonik Leap)
Alternative Education
We make use of a small number of alternative providers in order to help our students explore vocational areas of interest and offer further therapeutic support depending on need. These include:
- Evolve Sports Academy
- Marske Mechanics
- The Unicorn Centre
- Daisy Chain