Curriculum
Our vision is to deliver an authentic and immersive education ensuring high personal achievement for all our students. Our curriculum is designed to be engaging and to allow our students to achieve high levels of success starting with strong foundations in Early Years leading to an ambitious range of qualifications including GCSE exams alongside industry based vocational qualifications.
Our curriculum aim is to ensure all students are inspired with a passion for learning, to deepen their understanding whilst at the same time equipping them with the knowledge and power skills required to play an active and successful role in today’s highly competitive, exciting and fast-changing world.
The curriculum at Atlantic Academy is rooted in the strongest evidence about how students learn and retain knowledge in the long term – focusing in particular on research from cognitive science. Cognitive science suggests that students ought to learn the concepts that come up repeatedly. We plan for mastery over time, providing repetition and revision for deeper understanding, so knowledge is retained and not forgotten. Our students need an explanation of why they are covering this topic now, how it connects with what they have done before and how it connects with what will come later.
All Atlantic Academy students learn in a challenging, engaging and supportive environment through a well-thought-out curriculum, which encourages creativity, celebrates diversity and utilises the knowledge, skills and cultural experiences of the local community. Deep learning must be a goal of the curriculum, with students able to retain and transfer learning.
Our ‘No Limits’ curriculum allows our students to develop their ability and skills to apply and repurpose knowledge in order to survive in a rapidly changing world. Applying their expert knowledge to real-world contexts allows our young learners to take the lead in using this knowledge to find solutions and answers, consequently learning is deepened. To this end, the curriculum allows for the development of the knowledge, skills and qualifications required for progression to the next stage of their journey – be that choosing options subjects, equipping students for the rigour of Sixth Form study, college or apprenticeships.
We are confident that our approach offers a truly ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum to all students. We believe that this will inspire students to go on and excel in their chosen field, providing the widest range of opportunities for their future.
Curriculum Content
The curriculum incorporates the National Curriculum statutory requirements and Department of Education guidance. Supplementary to this, the curriculum of the school reflects the local context and development needs of students.