Curriculum and subjects

Find everything you need to know about our approach to the curriculum and the subjects on offer at our school.

As our vision makes clear, our school is a space for aspirations. We know, however, that to help realise these aspirations, our school’s focus must be rooted firmly in our children’s success in the present. Here at Lift Hockley, we take inspiration for this task from our natural setting. Just like the woodland surrounding us, our school is a communal space. We share it, we grow within it and, most importantly, we nurture it. Our school has places to sit and feel part of something, places to shelter and places from which to admire the beauty of everything that has grown within it.

Curriculum overview

We are committed to consistently deliver excellence, in every lesson, every day by creating a calm, purposeful learning environment where students study a relevant curriculum that enables all students to succeed, building skills and knowledge for future life. Our aim is to provide all students with a demanding and equitable curriculum, which is both academic and creative that not only enables them to achieve first rate qualifications but also develops in each young person the characteristics to succeed in all aspects of life, by building ambition, pride, resilience, and respect in all learning, experiences, and opportunities provided by the school. This is secured through high quality teaching and learning.

We are committed to consistently deliver excellence that enables all our students to succeed in every aspect of life through:

Creating a stimulating learning environment through a well-planned curriculum. Developing knowledge led schemes of learning that are challenging and coherent, designed to ensure that all students achieve broad, deep, subject expertise
Ensuring students acquire substantive, disciplinary and hinterland knowledge and remember more with extended deliberate practice that is well planned, so that they can learn more complex content and apply the skills and understanding they have gained
Enabling all students to become confident and resilient while also developing their creativity and talents to the full
A rich learning experience is enhanced through the creative delivery of literacy, oracy, numeracy, and cultural enrichment. All students develop a rich cultural capital in all areas of the curriculum, and are strengthened by exposure to wide reading opportunities which are embedded in the curriculum
Respect is one of the core values of our school. Students are helped to know and understand that it is expected that a culture where mutual respect, courtesy, tolerance and diversity are without question embraced in all aspects of the curriculum.

Introducing our curriculum

The documents below give an overview of the subjects we study in school and the aims for what our pupils will learn within each subject.

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Newsletter 12th January 26