Our Curriculum Statement--click to see full document
Our
curriculum intent begins with the national curriculum objectives that
provide a secure foundation for our curriculum. The FORT curriculum
content is ever-changing, evolving with and appropriate to the
individual cohorts of children throughout our schools.
The knowledge
and skills taught have been carefully woven and interconnected in
relation to a series of learning units/themes which are related to our
locality/environment, key figures, our aspirations and understanding of
the wider world and cultures. We use Cornerstones as a starting point
for which we build bespoke units of work. These topics blend and allow
conceptual links to be built across the curriculum while always
celebrating our individual subjects.
Our topics are underwritten
by carefully chosen and high-quality texts; reading is given a high
status in our curriculum. As our children’s knowledge and skills grow,
so our curriculum develops. We carefully build our themes lessons to
teach and interconnect knowledge and skills across the discrete subjects
of Art, Geography, History and Design Technology. This holistic
approach aims to provide technically, academically, morally, emotionally
and socially wise, yet curious, children who are ready to develop their
future selves.
Learning is more than the acquisition of
knowledge and skills but is about our experiences together which produce
a sense of spirit and a passion for life itself. Our approach to both
‘enrichment’ and high-quality teaching of specific curriculum subjects
with the subject specialist teachers ensure that children maximise their
learning challenges and opportunities.
Our core values are the
foundation to all we do in the FORT federation. We also place great
importance on the learning behaviours which are explicitly encouraged
within our schools. They are essential to each child’s journey towards
personal, cognitive, social, emotional, cultural and physical
development and fulfilment within the FORT community.
We aim to develop:
COURAGE: to demonstrate emotional stamina and vigour, passion, or inner drive to achieve. To show courageous advocacy.
CURIOSITY: To be curious about everything- to take risks and try something new often.
Show COMMITMENT, DEDICATION and ENDURANCE in what we do – things in life are hard; we teach our children to power through.
WISDOM: to be able to think and act using your knowledge, experience, compassion alongside good judgement.
RESILIENCE:
to build you own personal resilience - we fail in life and make
mistakes, but we can resolve these, dust ourselves off and start again.
HAPPINESS we find happiness in the smallest of places, remembering there is always hope … the FORT Federation is a happy place to be!
Please click on each button to read our individual subject statements.
Please click on each button to read our individual subject progression statement