Explore Our Curriculum
Explore our curriculum intent, implementation, impact and long term plans by clicking on the faculties listed below.
You will find more information about how each subject area is bringing our knowledge rich offer to life. This information includes an intent statement for each subject, which sets out the ambition of the curriculum and broadly, what students can expect to learn.
It also includes an implementation statement, which provides an overview of how we deliver the curriculum in each subject area. And, finally a statement around the expected impact of our curriculum. This summarises our student’s entitlement, what it is they should expect to be able to do and know through engaging with our curriculum offer.
For an even closer look at the content covered within our curriculum you can also click on and view the progression map and long term plans for each subject. There is a guide to some of the language used within the documents below. If you have any questions or would like to know more about our curriculum then please email prie-infor@coopacademies.co.uk and mark it for the attention of Mrs Pratt, our Vice Principal and Curriculum Lead.
Computer Science & Media
In Computer Science we provide an ambitious and exciting knowledge-rich curriculum for students, filled with opportunities to experience new things, learn, grow, reflect and question the world around them.
Creative Design
Our Creative Design subjects introduce students to the creative process practised by artists, designers, and engineers, valuable to them as both future producers and consumers.
English
In English, what matters most is delivering an ambitious, innovative and knowledge-rich curriculum which inspires a lifelong love of the English language.
Expressive & Performing Arts
The expressive arts include art and design, dance, drama and music. Through learning in expressive arts your child will: enjoy the energy and excitement of performing and presenting for different audiences and of being part of an audience for others.
Humanities & Social Science
Our social science subjects cover economics, psychology, and history, while the humanities explore philosophy, languages and literature, and the arts.
Maths
In Maths, we provide a way of building mental discipline and encourages logical reasoning and mental rigour. Mathematical knowledge also plays an important role in understanding the contents of other school subjects such as science, social studies, and even music and art.
Modern Foreign Languages
In MFL our aspirational and innovative curriculum is constructed to ensure we provide an ambitious and exciting knowledge-rich curriculum for students, filled with opportunities to experience new things, learn, grow, reflect and question the world around them.
Science
Science instils a sense of intrigue and enables students to develop understanding and form questions based both on the knowledge they already have and the insight they wish to gain in the future.
PSHCE
PSHCE education is a planned, developmental programme of learning through which our students acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their lives now and in the future. It prepares students to manage opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities they will face growing up in such rapidly changing and challenging times.
Our Co-op Values are part of everything we do. Find out more about how our curriculum promotes British Values.
| Key Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Progression Map | Breaks down the key concepts to specify the most important knowledge and how that knowledge builds within the curriculum. It enables teachers to see the biff picture of pupils' learning: what content is taught in which year group. |
| Long - Term Plan | Organises the knowledge from the progression map into units to give an overview of what is taught when in the curriculum. |
| Unit of Work | A block of learning usually made up of a number of domains of knowledge (topics) |
| Gateway Knowledge | What students need to know before they can move into the next unit of work. It is prior knowledge that is needed for new knowledge to be acquired. Without accurate and secure gateway knowledge, new learning may take place superficially and/or with misconceptions. Teachers will spend time at the start of a new unit of work making sure students have secure gateway knowledge. |
| Domains of Knowledge | A group of related knowledge. It could also be referred to as a topic. Any subject could be divided up into different domains (topics) |
| Key Concepts | Concepts critical to understanding a subject. They could also be referred to as golden threads that we revisit throughout the curriculum. |
| End Points | What pupils are expected to know and able to do by the end of the unit of work. This is what students will be tested o and will be used to uniform the progress data that is shared three times a year. |