ATTFE College Curriculum Principles
“Enabling you to become the best version of yourself”
Intent:
Within each curriculum area at ATTFE College, curriculum design will ensure:
- Inclusion, including ambition and challenge for all
- Core skills including oracy, literacy, numeracy and essential digital skills
- Embedded Employability Skills
- Knowledge and concepts which are carefully selected to equip learners with a powerful frame of reference from which to reliably predict, explain and generalise
- Sequencing which develops knowledge and concepts coherently, building upon prior knowledge
- ATTFE College themes (PREVENT, safeguarding, Fundamental British Values, well-being, mental and physical health, sustainability etc.) embedded to enrich learners’ understanding and lives
- Sessions which are enjoyable, enriching, and which inspire and nurture
- Sessions which are knowledge-rich, broad and which stretch and challenge
- Equality and professionalism is embedded into sessions
- Learner’s exposure to life in modern Britain is broadened, with increased confidence levels, deepened resilience and the provision of tools to ensure employment opportunities are known about and easily accessible
- Diversity is celebrated and social injustices highlighted and discussed.
Implement:
Within each curriculum area at ATTFE College, curriculum delivery will ensure:
- Inclusion, including ambition and challenge for all
- Core skills including oracy, literacy, numeracy and essential digital skills
- Explicit teaching of new concepts – sequencing of content, modelling, questioning, checking for understanding, regular feedback, regular review and practice, skill and confidence-building along with resilience
- Responsiveness to local employability opportunities with lifelong learning interventions and initiatives
- Regular and appropriate CEIAG at each stage of the learning journey to prepare each lear ner for their next stage of life
- Quizzes, tests and reviews
- Secure learner understanding of wellbeing, good mental health, safeguarding and PREVENT
- Close alignment with D2N2 priorities to ensure localised knowledge and skills
- Seeking out and working closely with local stakeholders and partners to support community regeneration through lifelong learning.
Impact:
Within each curriculum area at ATTFE College, curriculum impact will be evidenced by:
- Reviewing what learners securely know and skills that they can perform confidently
- Appropriate application in learners’ own lives and work of core skills including oracy, literacy, numeracy and essential digital skills
- Ability to recall, refine and apply knowledge when learning new content, and ability to progress at pace through curriculum content
- Learners’ collaborative discussions and engagement with each other
- Learner receptiveness to ATTFE College themes within their classroom environment, working lives and home lives (for example, how they may embrace the wellbeing initiatives out of class time)
- Ensuring all learners know how to research employment opportunities and have the confidence to do so
- Learner achievement (accredited as well as personal skills such as increased confidence levels)
- Positive destinations through employment secured, career prospects enhanced, and engagement in further learning.
