Curriculum Rationale and Aims:
The curriculum ‘offer’ at Arrow Vale Academy reflects the ethos and values of the Central Region Schools Trust. We feel that maintaining the breadth of the curriculum, and the creative offer at both Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four is vital to afford the necessary educational and career opportunities for all and have hence resisted the pressure to reduce our students’ option choices.
Our curriculum is designed to achieve the following aims:
- Promote knowledge and understanding
- Develop essential subject specific, study, life and employability skills
- Nurture attributes that will enhance the opportunity for success, well-being and community
- Provide experiences beyond the school’s community and social demographic
- Fulfil National Curriculum requirements
- Provide equality of opportunity
- Be progressive; provide balance, breadth, relevance, challenge and differentiation
- Enable smooth transitions between key phases in education
- Prepare students for post-16 study
- To support career aspirations and to develop pathways into further/higher education and employment
- Support the promotion of students’ character, which is inclusive of their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development