ATTFE College Curriculum Principles
“Helping you to become the best version of yourself”
Intent:
Throughout each curriculum area within ATTFE College, curriculum design will ensure:
- Inclusion, including ambition and challenge for all
- Core skills including oracy, literacy, numeracy and ICT
- Employability skills embedded
- Knowledge and concepts carefully selected to equip learners with a powerful frame of reference from which to reliably predict, explain and generalise
- Sequencing knowledge and concepts coherently, using prior knowledge to build upon
- ATTFE College themes (PREVENT, well-being, mental health, sustainability etc) embedded to enrich learners understanding and lives
- Sessions which inspire and nurture
- Sessions which stretch and challenge
- Broaden learners exposure to life in modern Britain, increase confidence levels, deepen resilience and provide tools to ensure employment opportunities are easily accessible and known about
Implement:
Throughout each curriculum area within ATTFE College – curriculum delivery will ensure:
- Inclusion, including ambition and challenge for all
- Core skills including oracy, literacy, numeracy and ICT
- 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 / initiatives
- Close alignment with D2N2 priorities
- To seek out and work closely with local stakeholders and partners to support community regeneration through lifelong learning
Impact:
Throughout each curriculum area within ATTFE College, curriculum impact will be evident by:
- Reviewing what learners know/can do
- Appropriate application of core skills including oracy, literacy, numeracy and ICT
- Ability to recall, refine and apply knowledge when learning new content/ ability to progress through curriculum content
- Learner discussions and engagement with each other
- Learner receptiveness to ATTFE College themes within their classroom environment and home life (i.e how they may embrace the wellbeing initiatives out of class time)
- Quizzes, tests and reviews
- Ensuring all learners know how to research employment opportunities and have the confidence to do so
- Learner achievement (accredited and individual skills such as increased confidence levels) and positive destinations.