Our Curriculum Vision

Our Curriculum aims to equip all our learners with the knowledge and resilience to engage learning, have confidence in their knowledge and have the skills to access and advocate for themselves when they step into the wider world.

Our Curriculum Intent

At Belmont Park School we offer a broad and balanced curriculum for students starting at Year 7, through to Year 11. We understand that the needs of our young people mean that the adaptations in class must be paired with a therapeutic offer.

Our staff use knowledge based strategies to ensure that the adaptations equip students with emotional literacy and strategies to understand their own needs alongside the academic breadth and challenge for students to grow in confidence and actively engage with learning. 

Core skills are developed through our reading programme and independent sessions where students access interventions from qualified staff to build skills.

The school’s therapeutic offer begins with the ethos of the school. We use a trauma sensitive approach  and we use the Thrive model of Emotional Development to support practice. Alongside this we have an on site counsellor, CAMHs practitioner and input from the Educational Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapist to support engagement in learning through specialist advice.  

Our curriculum offers our students structured opportunities to develop skills which prepare them for the real world. This includes working with the local community through our work with the local market, working with site staff and with the School Office, as well as through our outdoor offer and the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

We implement the curriculum through quality first teaching, small group intervention and 1:1 intervention, whilst addressing anxiety around learning through a personalised approach. We recognise that a base of strong knowledge, built over time, is key to their academic progress. 

Through this approach, we aim for all of our students to become independent and secure young adults with agency - who are capable of advocating for their needs in meaningful ways throughout their entire lives.