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What pupils learn, and why.
How we teach
We offer one coherent pathway from the Early Years to Post-16, with a broad academic spine, a weekly whole-school vocational day that brings everyone together, and a Middle phase that meets every learner where they are. We are a small, stage-not-age school: children belong to a named group and progress as they are ready, rather than by their birth year.
Every stage shares three constants: English, maths and science as the spine; a weekly whole-school vocational day; and a broad, personalised offer in the remaining time.
Talk-rich, play-based learning across the seven Early Years areas, with daily phonics, stories and number woven through purposeful play — indoors and outdoors every day.
Phonics and number are secured to fluency, then a broad, knowledge-rich curriculum builds the reading, writing and vocabulary that later specialist teaching develops.
Discrete, separately timetabled subjects taught by subject specialists — humanities, languages, classics, STEM and the arts — keeping every door open before Key Stage 4 choices.
The same core of English, maths and science, delivered through cross-curricular projects with a consistent key adult, a stronger relational focus and extra wellbeing time. Children can move between the two routes.
English, maths and science at the core, plus one subject chosen from each of six option blocks — a wide range of academic and vocational qualifications, taught across Years 9–11 for depth and mastery.
A-levels, Level 3 vocational courses, or a mix — mirroring the GCSE pathways, with enrichment and continued access to the vocational day. Routes lead to university, apprenticeships or employment.
Alongside the academic spine runs a broad vocational offer — from growing, animal care and conservation to cooking, crafts, construction, hair and barbering, health and social care, enterprise, fitness and music. Each strand leads to a recognised qualification, and every pathway — academic or vocational — carries equal status. Our weekly whole-school vocational day lets every child, from the youngest upward, sample and then specialise in the strands that suit them.
From September 2027, Wales introduces the new VCSEs (Vocational Certificate of Secondary Education), and we intend to lean into these as they come on stream — they fit our vocational, relational ethos particularly well.
The same vocational strands are the foundation of a distinct, full alternative curriculum for children and young people of any age for whom a conventional classroom is not currently working. Built around purposeful, hands-on, qualification-bearing work — growing, making, caring, serving — and grounded in trauma-informed, relational practice, it helps young people reconnect with learning while keeping up core English and maths through applied, real-world tasks.
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