Presdales Super Curriculum

‘Going beyond the boundary of the classroom curriculum’

Our vision

The Super Curriculum (SC) is fully aligned to the Presdales vision of 'achievement for all' and upholds the school's key values of equality, resilience, creativity and ambition. It will provide opportunities for all students, regardless of their background or starting point, to develop their cultural capital through an inclusive and diverse curriculum that encourages our students to develop into independent minded young women.

Purpose and rationale

At Presdales, we firmly believe that students should study a breadth of subjects that develop them into well-rounded individuals. Each curriculum area have comprehensive schemes of work in place that ensure students acquire substantial knowledge and understanding within each subject. We also provide opportunities for students to read around the subject, conduct research into key areas of study and be creative. However, we recognise that there is only a finite amount of time in the school day and we do not want this to restrict the extent to which students can deepen and further enrich their learning.

To ensure students continue to develop their learning outside of the classroom, we have created a Super Curriculum that provides tasks, activities and opportunities for students to engage with outside of school. These are created by subject teachers and designed to complement the curriculum students study in school. It provides students with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and understanding of a subject, field or discipline that they may have an existing passion with or a curiosity about. Whilst the completion of Super Curriculum tasks is not compulsory, we highly recommend that every student should engage with an area that interest them.

As students work from Year 7 to 13, they will have the opportunity to build up a strong portfolio of Super Curriculum tasks. In an ever more competitive world, it is key for students to be able to demonstrate the opportunities they have taken outside of their academic studies.

The Super Curriculum aims to...

Develop a love of learning

Develop students into life-long learners

Take students beyond the national curriculum and what they have learnt in class

Ignite a passion and inspire curiosity

Develop a depth of understanding and knowledge

Develop independence and promote students to become proactive learners

Promote innovation and creativity

Encourage students to aim high and develop drive and ambition

Recognition of engagement

Active engagement in and successful completion of super curriculum tasks and activities will result in students being recognised for their achievement through the awarding of rewards points in line with the school's rewards policy.

Students will also be required to log the tasks they have completed on UniFrog.

This serves 3 key purposes:

It allows students to keep track of which super curriculum tasks they have completed for each subject.
It allows members of staff to be notified of super curriculum activities that have completed by individuals, so that their achievement is recognised and celebrated.
It provides students with a portfolio of their super curriculum work which they can build on during their time at Presdales.

R1: For every student that completes a Super Curriculum task and provides evidence on their subject Google classroom

R2: For those students who get their completed task chosen by their subject teacher as best completed task

R3 & certificate: For those students who tasks are shortlisted at the best across the school. This will be presented in the Year group end of term assemblies.

At the end of each year:

Bronze certificate: For those students who have completed 5 tasks

Silver certificate: For those students who have completed 7 tasks

Gold certificate: For those students who have completed 9+ tasks