Our TPAT Secondary Curriculum supports all pupils to be strongly prepared for the next stage of learning, training or employment. Through collaboration, our shared curriculum draws on the extensive and expert subject knowledge across our Trust. Our curriculum maximises opportunities for pupils to embed and link key knowledge and concepts. It draws strongly on what pupils have learnt and understood from previous years and stages of their education, providing a carefully sequenced pathway which builds new knowledge and learning on the firm foundations of what pupils already know and understand. Our schools ensure that pupils are able to experience a broad and balanced curriculum which includes and goes beyond study of the National Curriculum. Creative, design and expressive arts, physical education, and personal and social development are vital elements of our curriculum, alongside the study of English, Maths, Science, modern languages and humanities. Our curriculum is designed to ignite pupils’ curiosity to learn and understand more about their world, and fosters their ability to become resilient problem solvers. Our aim is for pupils to be empathetic and inquisitive towards both local and global citizenship. Embedded within our curriculum are regular opportunities to understand learning within the context of future education and employment.

Our curriculum is ambitious for our pupils’ futures. We are committed through our shared Trust values to equipping pupils with the skills to support social mobility and their future careers. Through our curriculum, pupils experience our literacy and literature-rich cultures and we place a high value on explicit literacy teaching including a focus on vocabulary, reading to learn and oracy.

Our pedagogical foundations are rooted in evidence based approaches which support pupils to remember key knowledge and to be able to apply this to new contexts. Through our Advantage programme, and the expertise of our teachers to adapt learning to meet our pupils’ needs, we strive to ensure equity of access and opportunity across our family of secondary schools.