City of Birmingham School eNewsletter

Curriculum

The Curriculum

At City of Birmingham School we offer a broad and ambitious curriculum that seeks to unlock the potential of our pupils. Many of our pupils have had a disrupted, and often turbulent, education prior to coming to City of Birmingham School and as such we offer a curriculum that re-engages pupils with education, prepares them for a successful return into school and challenges them to be the best that they can be. We have high expectations of all of our pupils and believe that we provide the right environment to help them thrive. At the centre of our curriculum offer is the intention of:

Ensuring pupils are not disadvantaged by exclusion
Keeping pupils safe
Building confidence in educational settings, supporting them to return to a school when appropriate
Closing any gaps in learning
Challenging pupils to exceed their own expectations
Providing a range of diverse enrichment opportunities
Identifying unknown skills and dreams
Ensuring that age appropriate pupils leave us with a range of recognised qualifications and can successfully access a further education placement
Developing pupils with education, knowledge, language and habits that are valued by society
Providing life changing opportunities for pupils
Developing pupils to become resilient, accepting challenge and tolerate other viewpoints

We achieve the above through the delivery of a carefully planned programme of study for pupils. Although pupils are placed at one of our eight centres in the city, largely dependent on space availability at the time of exclusion, their curriculum offer is consistent across the school. We have curriculum leaders across the school who lead the development and planning of their subject area in line with our above intentions.