- Pupils at Ladywood School follow a thematic and connected curriculum.
- Our curriculum is designed to provide a clear scaffold to learn knowledge, develop skills and ensure that pupils are fully equipped to engage with learning.
- Each Foundation subject has 4 tiers, in order to provide all pupils with a personalised and relevant curriculum that best supports their individual needs: Exploratory, Functional Bridge (KS2), Functional and Core.
- Our curriculum is designed to be fluid, so that all pupils are able to move through tiers, if appropriate, in order to broaden understanding and create challenge at every level.
Curriculum Offer
About Our Curriculum
- Our curriculum is designed with our pupils’ individual strengths and needs at the heart of their learning, ensuring that all pupils are given the right platform in order to be successful in the future.
- It provides pupils with opportunities to develop and learn essential life skills, including engagement, communication, social and vocational skills.
- Our aim is to support children fully to achieve their full potential as young adults in the community and have positive futures.
- Our curriculum is designed to support our children towards future educational pathways, based on knowledge of our pupils and their future educational and vocational setttings.
- The curriculum is designed on research based pedagogy and concrete evidence, with clear links to developing engagement, extending vocabulary, communication, reading and working memory.
- Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are given every opportunity to develop essential life skills and are supported to engage in a broad range of curricular and extra-curricular activities.
- Our pupils enjoy school and engage with a wide range of school activities positively.
- Our pupils build on prior knowledge to develop new skills.
- Our pupils are challenged to learn to the best of their ability and are given every opportunity to discover new things.
- Our pupils are prepared for future learning and life after education.
- Our pupils are able to communicate to the best of their ability.
- Our pupils have aspirations, high expectations and celebrate their successes.
Please click below for subject specific Curriculum Maps
If you would like any further information about the Curriculum offer please contact office@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk