Curriculum

Ellesmere College aims to provide a curriculum for all pupils to gain experience in the areas of linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technological, human and social, physical and aesthetic and creative education, appropriate for their ages and aptitudes. The school provides a fulltime supervised education for pupils of compulsory school age and has a Sixth Form. The College embraces much of the National Curriculum although it does not adhere to it entirely.

The following principles of teaching and learning at Ellesmere College underpin the shape of the curriculum:

• The curriculum is broad and balanced and pupil choices are encouraged to embrace breadth.
• The curriculum will promote a healthy lifestyle
• The curriculum will inspire pupils to commit to lifelong learning
• Pupils will develop the essential literacy and numeracy skills
• Teachers have high expectations of pupils. Pupils are encouraged to have high expectations in themselves
• Learning experiences are intellectually challenging for pupils of all abilities
• Teachers use a variety of teaching strategies
• Resources are used that differentiate in order to progress pupils with learning difficulties and challenge those with particular strengths in a subject
• Opportunities exist both in and out of the classroom to develop individual pupil interests
• Assessment supports the learning process
• Continuous monitoring and reporting enables tracking of progress with specific measures used as a bench mark