The scholarship curriculum

Scholarship Curriculum

We want our curriculum to promote the habits of learning which successful students will need to face the challenges ahead with increasingly complex academic qualifications and with an ever more demanding and fluent job market.

We want students to take responsibility for their learning by spending time in advance of their traditional curriculum lessons in preparing for them. This preparation  takes the form of reading, extracting information from texts, building recall and accumulating core knowledge and familiarity independently. We call this 'Prep.'

Prep allows the traditional curriculum lessons to begin with the assumption of a basic level of understanding and familiarity thereby generating confidence and allowing higher challenge, a more meaningful engagement and more time for exploration and consolidation.

The scholarship curriculum relies on the following systems and mechanisms

• The prep pack

• prep quizzes

• 'do nows'

• The prep lesson

• Prep clubs

• Adapted prep for those who find access difficult

• Interventions and

• Revision packs

 

For an example of a scheme of work for prep lessons ( the scheme of work for the first 5 weeks of year 7) , go here.