Curriculum Vision Statement
Curriculum Vision Statement
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A Better Future
A Better Future
Staff across the Inspire Partnership have worked hard to develop a curriculum framework which is rooted in meaningful knowledge, building on prior learning, containing regular assessment points and connects learning with the wider world.
We take seriously our responsibility to help prepare young people to thrive in the next phase of their education, helping them achieve high standards, as well as supporting learners to make a positive contribution within our school communities.
We believe it is important to think hard about the purpose of education. We cannot separate what is required to be a successful learner from how we support pupils in developing the attitudes and values required to navigate an increasingly complex world.
Our curriculum framework, provides a road map for both the knowledge required to succeed, as well as the character skills needed to become a more socially aware, collaborative and ethical learner. This calls for us to think about our curriculum differently. The Inspire Partnership curriculum framework is designed to consider:
Aligning the body of taught knowledge within the taught curriculum with the values and character skills needed to better understand how knowledge can deepen understanding.
Ensuring curriculum provision deepens engagement within the local and wider community, building greater levels of agency between knowledge and application.
Developing assessment of skills as well as assessment of knowledge content.
The Changing Needs of Education
Our curriculum is underpinned by global themes rooted in local communities. This is planned and designed to help pupils make sense of their world, their context and aspirations. We believe that learners are entitled to an education that equips them with the knowledge, skills and values they need to embrace the opportunities and challenges they encounter; giving them agency to create a better future.
Evidence from industry as well as PISA highlights the highest performing education systems are adapting their concept of curriculum to provide more than knowledge retrieval. Vocational qualifications, social learning and problem solving skills are increasingly being seen as valuable in order for pupils to navigate what is becoming an increasingly complex world. This necessitates us supporting learners with:
Digital literacy and advancements in science / technology
The impact of climate change and sustainability
Cyber security and protection of personal information
Understanding our personal responsibility and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Meeting mental health needs, well being support and relationships education.
Curriculum planning therefore needs to be dynamic to evolve and be transformative so that it meets the changing needs of young people, our communities and wider society. We have designed our curriculum to promote thinking skills and develop character education for young people to make meaningful contributions. It is designed to enable children to make deep connections between learning and understanding the world that they live in, leading to children connecting taught knowledge and skills with agency and purpose.
Therefore, we ensure learning is ‘deep’ rather than shallow. Deep learning requires planning for and modelling behaviours and actions associated with:
deeper thinking
deeper purpose
active and collaborative engagement so that children meet the world but are not at the centre of it. (Please refer to the visual below)
We see the curriculum as a vehicle for connecting with the bigger cause. This means we enable children to form meaningful relationships with their learning, see patterns and apply skills into a context where learning can make a difference. Children see that their learning has human significance. They understand that their global learning is relevant to future decisions and the active contribution they can make to the world. Our aim is to teach our children how to live, as well as how to learn with collaboration being at the heart of our design for learning. Therefore, the importance of curriculum design for providing opportunities to connect learning with the world is imperative. Deep learners connect what they learn with a bigger cause.
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