Curriculum Design

Our schools design their own curricula to meet the needs of the children in their school.  The Trust supports this through significant training and support.

English and Maths

In English and Maths we have Trust Improvement Leads (TILs) who are subject specialists and chair subject lead groups. 

In English this has involved extensive training of all staff in ‘Mastering English’ which focuses on high quality modelling by teachers; developing whole school spelling and grammar approaches and working with the local English Hub to ensure each school has a high-quality well resourced synthetic phonics programme. We continue to prioritise reading and to keep developing the love of reading at the centre of our Trust work.

In Maths all our schools are on the journey to become Math Mastery schools.  For each school this can look different (many use Power Maths, others do not) but all work with our TIL to ensure staff training is of the highest standard.  Recently a range of professional development opportunities have been delivered for Subject Leaders, Teachers and Teaching Assistants.  Our schools also all work with the Angles Maths Hub (Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form in Norwich) in work which is co-ordinated by our TIL.

Foundation Subjects

Each school designs and delivers a curriculum that is right for the children in their school.  The Trust has worked with external organisations (e.g. ARK) and with our founding schools to develop more than one strong curriculum offer.  Where new schools have joined the Trust and had significant gaps in their existing curriculum work we have used our existing models to support rapid improvement.  We provide subject leaders with training and guidance on how to lead their subject effectively and how to develop assessment systems that allow them to refine their curriculum to best meet the needs of children in their school.