Curriculum and Exams
The curriculum at CVEA dovetails in to the ethos and vision of the Academy. A carefully planned and considered curriculum is the foundation upon which excellent learning and development is built. At CVEA, we believe our curriculum has the attributes to deliver this. The curriculum is broad and balanced and carefully planned to ensure that content is thoroughly revisited so that learning is consolidated and sustained.
Intent
Whilst it undoubtedly prepares students for external examinations, there is a strong emphasis through the various elements on developing:
- Respect: debating, listening and respecting viewpoint
the emotional intelligence required to be a productive member of the workforce
- Responsibility: an understanding of 'British Values' and the implications for life in modern day Britain; students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural learning
- Ambition: an understanding, through the careers programme, of the opportunities available to students once they leave school; good health and well being.
- ·Determination: students to achieve their personal best; resilience, confidence and character.
Implementation
Our curriculum is constructed on the following principles to support the above; namely that:
- acquiring subject specific knowledge is key for students to be able to solve complex problems
- the students need to practise the knowledge and skills they have learnt in lessons so that they can use them when they need
- there are many opportunities built into lessons to secure the need to recall and retrieve previous learning, so that it can be embedded. This enables students to apply knowledge with increasing confidence
- lessons are sequenced to develop knowledge concepts and skills over time
- students encounter broad and balanced curriculum, adaptive teaching will be at the core of what we provide. Courses will be offered that allow full accessibility to our students and they will have a bespoke package of subjects to suit their individual needs
- teachers will use “thinking hard” techniques during lessons to help pedagogy and meta cognition
- a large proportion of our cohorts will be entered for the English Baccalaureate - as this provides an academically broad and balanced curriculum
- care is taken to ensure that students encounter the prior knowledge needed to access the curriculum before it is needed in class. This is achieved through careful curriculum planning and through the pastoral programme which develops the language and wider knowledge needed to then access more formal learning
- development of vocabulary is the remit of all subjects
- all students should experience a careers education based on the Gatsby benchmarks that underpin a world class careers education
- the British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect of those with different faiths and beliefs are taught explicitly and reinforced in the way in which the school operates
- SMSC is embedded into pastoral and curriculum programmes
Impact
Outcomes
- Grade 4 or more in English and Maths: 57%, up from 55% in 2023 ·
- Grade 5 or more in English and Maths: 39%, up from 37% in 2023 ·
- Progress 8: -0.18 up from -0.88 in 2023 (same as 2024 as no KS2 data) ·
- Attainment 8: 41.82 up from 40.34 in 2023.
-Ebacc APS: 3.85, up from 3.69 in 2023.
-Percentage of pupils achieving the strong pass for English Baccalaureate: 18.4%, up from 14% in 2023.
There were some excellent subject results.
- Mathematics: achieved above national average for grades 9-7 and 9-5.
- Biology: 57% 9-7 and 100% 9-5%.
-Physics: achieved 43% 9-7 and 100% 9-5%.
-Art: achieved 26% 9-7, 62% 9-5 and 83% 9-4 ·
-Business, Child Development, Health and Social, and Performing Arts courses also achieved outstanding results, significantly above national averages
Please also look at the personal development pages for further impact.
Curriculum model
We operate a 3:2 curriculum model with three years assigned for the delivery of our Year 7, 8 and 9 programmes of study. These programmes of study have been carefully crafted and sequenced to ensure they meet all the requirements as set out in the National Curriculum.
At the end of Year 9, students opt for the subjects that they will study in Years 10 and 11 and they complete those subjects by the end of Year 11. Our highly flexible two year curriculum delivered in Years 10 and 11 allows us to create personalised guided pathways for our students.
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