faculties & subjects

Aims of the curriculum at Darrick Wood School are to:

• Provide a broad and balanced education for all students that’s coherently planned and sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient knowledge for skills and future learning and employment
• Enable students to develop knowledge, understand concepts and acquire skills, and be able to choose and apply these in relevant situations. These include subject-specific skills and the Darrick Wood School Life Learning Skills
• Support students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
• Support students’ development of an awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion
• Support students’ physical development and responsibility for their own health, and enable them to be active
• Promote a positive attitude towards learning
• Ensure equal access to learning for all students, with high expectations for every student and appropriate levels of challenge and support
• Have a high academic, vocational and/or technical ambition for all students
• Equip students with the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life
• Provide subject choices that support students’ learning and progression, and enable them to work towards achieving their goals
• Provide a broad curriculum prioritising a strong academic core of subjects, such as those offered in the EBacc
• Develop students’ Life Learning Skills, to equip them for further/higher education and employment

In achieving these aims the curriculum should provide appropriate challenges for all students in ways which satisfy the diversity of their needs (including those in the Deaf Centre, those in Support and Highly Achieving Students), so that opportunities for their inclusion in mainstream lessons are maximised.