Curriculum

Crossacres uses the National Curriculum as a basis to develop exciting and stimulating lessons which promotes the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills.

Our learning extends beyond the National Curriculum and pupils are taught about social, moral, spiritual and cultural aspects of life. Our curriculum is also enhanced by the provision of Forest Schools, music lessons and visits to the surrounding area to give pupils first-hand experiences, which will develop their knowledge and skills further.

Challenge

The curriculum challenges our children to leave their comfort zones and to try new things; our children actively seek out new challenges in order to better themselves, both academically and socially.  Alongside their academic endeavours, we also encourage our children to challenge themselves to make positive, confident and brave contributions to our local community. 

Progress

Our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils make progress academically, physically, artistically and ethically.  Our pupils work hard in lessons to make the best academic progress that they can and, through nurturing a lifelong love of learning, our curriculum equips them to do this.  They know that hard work and dedication equips them with the tools to succeed in later life.  

Aspire

Our staff and our children relentlessly aspire to be better.   The aspirations of our children are limitless and provide the baseline upon which our imaginative, creative and challenging curriculum is developed.  We believe that all of our children can aspire to greatness.   Our curriculum is designed to let our children learn that they can dream and aspire without restriction; anything is possible and our children deserve the right to pursue their ambitions.

The Academy follows the National Curriculum, which can be found at: –

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum