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Scholar’s Guides
The Scholar’s Curriculum breaks the year into 3 cycles of 12 weeks. Each cycle is made up of:
- 10 weeks of teaching
- An assessment week for all students in week 11
- Super Teaching Week in week 12 where we focus on key areas identified from the assessments to strengthen knowledge and close any gaps in knowledge
Each student has their own copy of the Scholar’s Guide which they take to and use in all lessons. This sets out:
- The knowledge they will need to know each week in each subject
- How they will apply this knowledge
- The key Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary they will need for each subject
In the Scholar’s Guides learning is clearly set out for students outlining the key vocabulary in each guide. Learning new vocabulary is a key strategy that is used for all students and particularly those who have additional needs.
In line with our curriculum guiding principles, the Scholar’s Guides:
- Set out the curriculum for pupils so that they understand what has, what is and what will be taught.
- Help students them make important connections across the curriculum.
- Allow students to quickly identify the key knowledge learnt, and the purpose of them learning this ('so that I can...')
- Identify the most important knowledge for each week/lesson — this can be used to recap learning, for retrieval tasks and revision retrieval tasks and revision retrieval tasks and revision
