At Heathcote School, no one is left behind. We encourage, challenge, and stretch each pupil through a broad and balanced curriculum, outstanding resources, and high-quality learning experiences ensuring everyone develops resilience leading to success in the classroom and beyond. We include everybody in our vision and support staff and pupils in being self-aware, self-motivated, and independent and create an all-around safe and comfortable experience allowing self-confidence to thrive. This thirst to succeed will ensure learners have bright futures and are ready to meet the demands of the 21st century.
We will do this by:
- Raising standards of achievement for all our pupils.
- Developing and sharing expertise and resources with local schools and the wider community to foster a spirit of academic partnership in Waltham Forest that is scientific, technological, and vocational.
- Developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning that will provide models of excellence within the school and wider community.
- Providing young people with the skills needed to progress into employment, further training, or higher education according to their abilities, aptitudes, and ambitions.
This has been a short-term but one packed with achievements throughout the school. We are very proud of so many of our pupils and the positive progress they are making across their subjects and out of the classroom. Just two examples are four of our Year 10 pupils, Tahilah, Joseph, Jessica, and Hussain, who shared their Maths knowledge at an event at Norlington School scoring full marks in one round. The Year 7 and 9 girls’ sports teams have also done amazingly well this term in football and netball.
The curriculum is due for review during the year 2017-18 and stakeholders will be consulted. This is to establish a broad and balanced curriculum and to ensure maximum progress for all pupils. Heathcote School offers a broad and balanced curriculum, with clear progression routes for pupils of all abilities through Key Stages 3 to 5.
The curriculum over time has evolved to meet the changing demands and needs of our pupils, for example, increased intervention for literacy for identified pupils in Year 7, Study Support for targeted pupils at KS4, and demand-led curriculum at KS4 and KS5. At Heathcote, we personalize and extend our curriculum to meet the needs of individuals and groups of pupils as they progress through the school. Our pupils succeed because we ensure:
- All pupils have access to a curriculum that supports learning.
- A strong core means that basic skills are embedded at an early stage so that pupils can access the wider curriculum.
- We use our specialisms to influence learning opportunities and raise aspirations.
- The curriculum is inclusive and meets the needs of individual pupils at every Key Stage.
- ICT is used to enhance teaching and learning.
- Our pupils have opportunities to develop their spiritual, moral, social, and cultural skills through tutorials and citizenship programs.
- Healthy lifestyles are promoted.
- An extended curriculum ensures all pupils have access to catch-up, extension, and enrichment.
