Our academy curriculum helps pupils to achieve high standards and make excellent progress. At KS3, the curriculum is broad and pupils learn essential knowledge built around a ‘learning journey’ and ‘Big Ideas’ to ensure they have a deep understanding across a range of subjects. There are many opportunities built into lessons to secure the need to recall and retrieve previous learning so that knowledge is fully embedded. Our curriculum aims to ensure that this does not happen in isolation – this is achieved through a commitment to our core skills of knowledge, application, analysis and evaluation. We believe that in order to be successful, all of our pupils must develop these skills, regardless of what subject they are studying. It is this belief that ties together individual subject curricula into one, cohesive, curriculum.