Curriculum Overview
At Uffculme School we aim to provide all of our students with a highly ambitious curriculum, which is broad and balanced, and will not only equip each one for further study and employment, but will also enable them to thrive in our modern, global world.
We have worked hard to ensure that every student can access our curriculum so that irrespective of their abilities, aptitudes, background, or the personal challenges they may face, every student can have the best possible preparation for life.
The aims of our curriculum include:
Seeking to provide students with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens
Introducing them to the best that has been thought and said
Preparing and equipping them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life, including further and higher education as well as employment
Promoting students’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development
Helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement
Providing them with opportunities to develop literacy skills across the curriculum and wider life of the school, through Reading, Writing, and Oracy.
Content of the Curriculum
The curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge and skills around which teachers seek to develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of students’ knowledge, understanding and skills. However, the taught curriculum is just one element in the education of each student and we consciously allow time and space in the school day and in each week, term and year to range beyond the programmes of study for each subject.
You can find out more about knowledge and skills taught in each subject area by viewing their web page, which includes a copy of their curriculum map
Preparation for Adult Life
Whilst it is important to provide students with an excellent academic education, it is equally important that we equip them with the skills they need to use this education in the real world around them. Our curriculum therefore also places a heavy emphasis on the personal development of our young people. Preparation for Adult Life (PAL) supports students in learning about the role they play as part of a local, national and international community and about the challenges and risks they face outside the classroom and in turn how best to deal with these. ‘Non scholae sed vitae’ – we learn not for school but for life.
We do this through a formal taught PAL programme (which includes Personal, Social and Health Education; Relationship and Sex Education; British Values; and Careers Education) and a comprehensive range of informal opportunities that combine to help our students grow and develop as young people prepared and equipped for life now and in the future.
Find out more….
Parents and members of the community can find out more information about the different aspects of our curriculum through these links:
If you have a specific question, you can email the School at secretary@uffculmeschool.bep.ac