Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Rationale:

Highshore offers the full range of national curriculum subjects throughout the school with an emphasis on developing skills in literacy, numeracy and personal and social development. The school offers personalised programmes of study specifically aimed at meeting the individual’s learning needs.

Complex:

Our most complex learners are those who join Highshore not yet accessing Early Learning Goals or National Curriculum level outcomes.  They may face significant barriers to learning and learn best with a holistic approach to learning.  Outcomes for these learners are primarily based on the 4 areas of needs and are focused on developing learning behaviours and routines.  A topic based approach to learning is being developed for these learners, to enable them more stability by having the same class teacher for the majority of their day.  These students follow a structured sequence of learning that equips them with skills to access NC learning.  For example, the Cognition and Learning strand focuses on assessing sorting skills or following NOW/NEXT routines.  Whilst, these students may still take part in a Literacy or Maths lesson, the focus of their learning is about developing these pre-learning skills to access higher level learning.

Less Complex and More Able:

Our less complex and more able learners are those who possess the pre-learning skills read to access National Curriculum outcomes (with adaptations), however, still may require periodic interventions based on pre-learning skills.   Our learners in this cohort are able to access subject specific skills and knowledge and begin learning skills and knowledge from the Early Learning Goals and/or National Curriculum Year 1.  Students in this cohort are identified early on to be entered into accreditation/exam pathways.  Students in this cohort, depending on the subject, tend to progress through the Key Stage 1 and begin to access Key Stage 2 level work across subjects.