STAR Curriculum
Pupils spend 50% of their timetable in Star.
The Star curriculum aims to deliver subjects in a connected way to promote the development of:
- Literacy across all subject areas.
- High attainment and sustained progression.
- The transfer of skills across all subjects.
- Application of learning for real purpose and audience.
Main topics students study:
- The curriculum is organised into half-termly concepts, used to drive the content and skills developed and also tied into a final Rich Challenge.
- Explorers
Literacy, ICT, History and MFL lead subjects
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Pupils become explorers and investigate how we communicate with each other. Pupils focus on which periods of history have influenced society the most and communicate their learning using ICT software.
- Identity
Geography, Literacy, Values lead subjects
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Pupils look at national, international and global communities focusing on difference and diversity.
- Enterprise
Numeracy, ICT and Literacy lead subjects
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Pupils consider what makes a successful business, focusing on budgeting, marketing and team work. Pupils create their own business.
- Culture and Arts
Literacy, History and Arts lead subjects
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Pupils explore their heritage in terms of the arts looking at monarchy and influential figures such as Shakespeare. Pupils will develop their ability to critically analyse texts.
- My world
Discrete subjects
- Pupils return to discrete subjects where they explore the world in which we live.
- Science and us.
- Pupils explore the world of Science and ethics and its impact on the modern world.
Main skills students develop:
- Writing basics - Paragraphs, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, writing for audience and purpose.
- Reading basics - Skimming, scanning, selecting, summarising, synthesising, PEE paragraphs, strategies for developing as a successful reader.
- Oracy - Presentation skills, group discussion, speaking for audience and purpose, developing ideas.
- Numeracy - Number, scales, calculation, graphs, time, measurings.
- Analysis - Identify, describe, explain evidence and justify views.
- Evaluation - Making judgements and supporting with evidence. Exploring strengths and weaknesses.
- Research and enquiry - Asking questions to drive research, navigating texts, fact and opinion, searching for information in fiction and non-fiction texts.
- Leadership - Take on leadership roles in a range of contexts.
- Production - Plan, draft and edit a finished piece to a high standard for a range of audiences and purposes.