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Year 7 – 8 Excellent Futures

The Excellent Futures Curriculum is a learning programme that is centred around 12 core skills each of which have 5 sub-skills:

• Being a Team Member (TM 1-5)
• Problem Solving (PS 1-5)
• Managing Time (MT 1-5)
• Showing Initiative (SI 1-5)
• Taking Risks (TR 1-5)
• Being Creative (BC 1-5)
• Gathering and Managing Resources (GR 1-5)
• Presenting Information (PI 1-5)
• Understanding and Using ICT (IT 1-5)
• Understanding and Using Skills for Writing (WR 1-5)
• Financial Understanding and Numeracy (NU 1-5)
• Social and Emotional Intelligence (SE 1-5)

The students learn the 12 core skills through a curriculum that has 12 Themes, each one being half a term in duration. Each Theme emphasises the key knowledge within one or two lead subject areas but this knowledge, although seen as an essential component of the learning, very much supports the learning of the skills. Each theme has a significant Launch Day and Outcome that the students work towards. In several cases parents and the community are invited to the Outcome Day at the end of each theme in order to celebrate the learning of the students.

The students are taught by mainly one Teacher, who also acts as Tutor, and one Learning Support Assistant. However, where appropriate we utilise parents, other teachers and external experts to lead ‘Masterclasses’ where we think it will maximise the learning of the students.

Core Subjects

Year 7
In year 7 the students study English, Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Languages (French), PE and the Excellent Futures Curriculum. The table below shows the number of periods allocated to each of the subjects. Each period is 50 minutes in duration.

Subject	EN	MA	Sci	MFL	PE	Excellent Futures Curriculum
Periods per week	4	4	4	2	3	12

Year 8
In year 8 the students study English, Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Languages (French), PE, Design and Technology, Art and the Excellent Futures Curriculum. The table below shows the number of periods allocated to each of the subjects. Each period is 50 minutes in duration.

Subject	EN	MA	Sci	MFL	PE	Art	DT	Excellent Futures Curriculum
Periods per week	4	4	4	2	3	1	1	10

In both years 7 and 8 there is a Tutor Activities programme. Also, Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education are taught across all subjects including the Excellent Futures Curriculum and supplemented with occasional curriculum shutdown days and part days.