Curriculum

Intent

Bloxham Grove Academy is dedicated to offering a comprehensive and well-rounded curriculum centred around personal development opportunities and preparation for adulthood.  The curriculum comprises a thematic, cyclical approach to National Curriculum coverage to provide a meaningful context, allowing students to cultivate functional skills, social and emotional awareness, resilience, independence and skills for the workplace.

Our curriculum aims to foster the social, moral, spiritual and cultural growth of our students, along with their intellectual, emotional and physical development.  We strive to make our curriculum engaging; encouraging students to become active decision makers in their education and in their lives.

Implementation

We believe that a thoughtfully planned and structured curriculum is essential for fostering excellent learning and development.  Our curriculum is based on a thematic approach which is designed and implemented to build on prior knowledge and prepare students for the next stage of their education.  Lessons are engaging, inspiring and appropriately individualised, enabling students to achieve or even exceed their potential.

Teachers engage in data-led planning so the learning in the classroom is informed by prior attainment and individual strengths which allows students to embed and recall knowledge.  This builds firm foundations for progression to the next stage of their learning.

Bloxham Grove Academy: Fundamentals

To ensure our students have a rich and purposeful learning experiences, three fundamentals run through our provision:

  1. Cultural Capital: we aim for our students to be exposed to the best that has been thought, said and created.  As such we aim for culture to be brought into the school as well as planning rich experiences to learn outside of the classroom
  1. Personal Development: we aim to give our students lots of opportunities to foster independence and to have workplace readiness including having effective social interactions and confident life skills
  1. Being Active and Healthy: we aim for our students to learn how to be active and healthy young people who are given lots of opportunities to learn in the outdoors

Subject Weightings

To ensure we have a good coverage of subjects to enable our curriculum to be broad and balanced, we have carefully considered the subject weighting for each Gallery.  Our careful timetabling aims for all students to have ample time to explore their interests including art, cooking, PE and computing as well as ensuring we focus on the functional skills of English and maths.  We also place great emphasis on students having opportunities to Learn Outside the Classroom, including visiting the farm at Warriner School, using our new on-site Outdoor Classroom and having many occasions to go on educational trips and visits throughout the school year.

Impact

We measure our success in a number of ways.  First and foremost we use our students’ EHCPs and their outcomes to put together measurable and realistic targets for their Termly Outcomes Plans (TOPs).  This ensures their individual SEND remains central to their curriculum offer and our progress tracking. 

From May 2025 we are introducing a new system called Earwig to ‘capture, record, assess, track and report’ student progress and to support our target setting. We also measure success via assessments for Emotional and Social Growth, Nessy reading and Maths for Life.

We use our attendance data to measure our success with students’ engagement with their curriculum offer.  We also use destination data to measure the overall impact of students’ achievements and whether our curriculum has been helpful in ensuring students reach their next educational stage.