CURRICULUM VISION

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." - BB King

For a curriculum to enable children to thrive and succeed, the context, experiences and qualities of the wider community must be considered at its core. We pride ourselves as a school on the diverse, multiculutural community we are part of.

At Chandos, we teach a curriculum unique to the needs of our children, inline with the requirements of the National Curriculum (2014). This provides the children the opportunity to explore their learning in an active and engaging manner, enhancing opportunities for the development of language and communication. Children are encouraged to learn as critical thinkers, challenge ideas and communicate their opinions and feelings. Every child's opinion is valued.

CURRICULUM INTENT

Our curriculum has been designed to enable us to achieve our vision for every pupil to be 'growing, learning and achieving together'.

The curriculum content, enrichment opportunities and pedagogy of our curriculum are designed to prepare our pupils for the next stages of their life and learning, allowing them to mature and gain confidence so that they can be ready, respectful and safe for their future.

Valuing education, effective communication, tolerance and global citizenship are some of the themes that run through our curriculum because at Chandos we want to:

create successful, effective learners who understand and value scholarship and education.
create competent, critical thinkers who can challenge and develop ideas.
create effective communicators of our shared beliefs, values and learning.
create tolerant and respectful global citizens who have an understanding and knowledge of our local, national and global communities.

CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION

At Chandos, our curriculum intent is the driver for everything that we do.

We have designed overviews and plans created by subject leaders in order to ensure clear progression across the school. Subject leaders work collaboratively with senior leaders and teachers in school, as well as across the trust, in order to ensure that we deliver a curriculum that builds on prior learning, deepens knoweldge and enhances skills. We regularly review, evaulate and adapt our curriculum to ensure it reflects our ever changing community.

Half termly curriculum maps for each year group have been created to ensure clarity of coverage and a strong emphasis on progression of knowledge and skills, which informs the medium term planning. We maintain our strong teaching of the core subjects, whilst making links to learning in the foundation subjects through the high quality texts that children study.

By designing our own curriculum, we have been able to ensure that children are actively learning, engaged and enthusiastic about learning as well as challenged in their learning by the implementation of the curriculum.

CURRICULUM IMPACT

We have designed the Chandos Curriculum so that our children's needs are met.

We want our pupils to progress successfully through their learning journey with us by achieving the expected national standards and by being 'secondary ready' by the end of Year Six. We want our children will have the knowledge and skills that they need to move onto the next stage of their education.

A Chandos Child is expected to have a love of learning; be a capable thinker who is confident to challenge; be able to express and discuss their beliefs and learning; and be a respectful citizens of the world. We provide our children with the opportunities to achieve their very best, with a clear understanding of their responsibilities they have as citizens of Birmingham, the United Kingdom and the wider world.

Achievement and attainment are important, but at Chandos we also recognise the importance of the progress each child makes in their journey with us. If we can provide opportunities for children to enjoy learning and to succeed; to perservere to do the best that they can; and to have the courage to aim for what they want to achieve, then we have accomplished what we set out to do as a staff at Chandos.