School Curriculum Overview
At Two Mile Ash School, high standards of achievement, behaviour and respect for each other, underpin everything we do. Our teachers strive to create independent, articulate thinkers and learners who have the confidence to realise their ambitions. Our pupils are happy, highly engaged and thrive from a rich and vibrant curriculum. This drives us in our pursuit for achieving excellence every day.
Our Curriculum
The curriculum is all the planned activities that we organise in order to promote learning and personal growth and development. It includes not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum, but also the range of extra-curricular activities that the school organises in order to enrich the experience of the children. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’, or what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others while developing knowledge and skills, so that they achieve their true potential.
Values
Our curriculum is underpinned by our common ethos and shared values. The curriculum is the means by which the school achieves its objective of educating children in the knowledge, skills and understanding that they need to progress and achieve higher standards and prepare them for the next stage of education in order to lead fulfilling lives.
We value the way in which all children are unique, and our curriculum promotes respect for the views of each individual child, as well as for people of all cultures.
We value the importance of each person in our community. We organise our curriculum so that we promote co-operation and understanding between all members of our community.
We value the rights enjoyed by each person in our society. We respect each pupil in our school for who they are, and we treat them with fairness and honesty. We aim to enable each person to be successful, and we provide equal opportunities for all the children in our school.
We value our environment, and we aim, through our curriculum, to teach respect for our world, and how we should care for it for future generations, as well as our own.
We value the spiritual and moral development of each person l as well as their intellectual and physical growth.
Aims and objectives
The National Curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens. It introduces pupils to the best that has been thought and said; and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement. The National Curriculum is just one element in the education of every child. There is time and space in the school day and in each week, term and year to range beyond the National Curriculum specifications. The National Curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills as part of the wider school curriculum. This is underpinned by our common ethos and shared values. It is vibrant, rich and offers a wide range of learning experiences. Our broad and balanced curriculum provides opportunities to learn about the local, wider and global community and supports and enables pupils to lead fulfilling lives.
Our Equality objectives woven carefully throughout our school curriculum. The Equality Objectives for 2023-24 are;
- For our whole school community to value and reflect the diverse society of the whole TMA community.
- To raise the attainment and quality of provision for all vulnerable pupils including those who are disadvantaged, SEND, lower attaining and at risk of suspension or exclusion, to enhance their life and educational opportunities
- To safeguard and protect all pupils, swiftly identifying and effectively supporting them and their families, improving their life chances to be successful and achieve highly.
- To ensure human resources procedures including recruitment, development and employee relations matters, promotes equal opportunities and non discriminatory practices.
‘TMA Equality Statement and Objectives 2023-2024 Policy’ page 8.
This is furthered by our unswerving determination to support all of our pupil in our school curriculum, including those who are disadvantaged or those with SEND.
‘Our school aims to be an inclusive school. We actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude individual pupils, or groups of pupils. This means that equality of opportunity must be a reality for all our children, and this of course includes pupils with disabilities.’ ‘TMA SEND Policy, 2023-24’ page 17.
To find out more about our curriculum please contact your class teacher or contact the school directly.