Budmouth Curriculum Statement
What we are trying to achieve at Budmouth Academy:
Our vision is to deliver an authentic education for the children of our community to thrive. We aim to ensure all students achieve high levels of success in a ambitious range of qualifications including GCSE and A Level examinations, alongside industry based Vocational qualifications, 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.
Central to the philosophy of the curriculum delivered is that it should provide an authentic education for the world today. This requires the curriculum to allow for the development of the knowledge, power skills and qualifications required for future success. Children in Budmouth Academy learn in a challenging, engaging and supportive environment.
The Budmouth Curriculum Follows Three Guiding Principles and 8 Conditions of Success:
‘As an Aspirations Academy, our Guiding Principles of Self-worth, Engagement and Purpose are at the heart of everything we do and every decision we make to achieve our vision.’
‘To empower future generations to follow their dreams and to build a society of which we can all be proud’.
Self-worth:
- Belonging: Feeling I am part of a team while being recognised for my uniqueness.
- Heroes: Having people we can look up to, learn from and respect.
- Sense of Accomplishment: Being recognised for effort, perseverance and citizenship as well as achievement.
Engagement:
- Fun and Excitement: Being actively involved in our learning so that we lose track of time.
- Curiosity & Creativity: Being empowered and encouraged to ask questions and explore solutions.
- Spirit of Adventure: A culture where taking risks is valued and encouraged.
Purpose
- Leadership & Responsibility: Leading our own lives by taking responsibility for our actions.
- Confidence to Take Action: Believing in ourselves and being motivated to reach our dreams.
Within Budmouth Employability and Future Skills are the centrepiece to educational provision:
- Resilience
- Cross-cultural competency
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Creative and adaptive thinking
- Cognitive load management
- Sense-making
- Media literacy
- Entrepreneurialism
- Transdisciplinary
- Productivity and accountability
- The Budmouth Curriculum
The curriculum has three elements:
Intent: A framework for setting out the aims of a programme of education, including the knowledge, understanding and power skills to be gained at each stage.
Implementation: Translating the framework over time into a structure and narrative, within an institutional context.
Impact: Evaluating what knowledge, understanding and power skills students have gained against expectations.
Budmouth Academy has developed the curriculum in each subject area to promote the above three elements, ensuring progression in each subject area, and value the development of the identified future skills. We recognise that, as well as knowledge, students need to develop their ability and skills to apply and repurpose knowledge in order to survive in a rapidly changing world. In applying their expert knowledge to real-world contexts and allowing young learners to take the lead in using this knowledge to find solutions and answers, learning is deepened.