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Examples
Ashdown Technology College
| School Name
| Ashdown Technology College
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| DCSF number
| 113867
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| Town/City
| Poole
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| County
| Dorset
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| Government region
| South West
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| Number on roll
| 754
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| Age range
| 12-18
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| Specialist status
| Technology
|
| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| %
|
| Maths
| %
|
| Science
| %
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| %
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| %
|
| Keywords
|
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Description
Resources
ASHT 01: BEHAVIOUR PROTOCOL
ASHT 02: PROTOCOLS
ASHT 03: STUDENT AGREEMENT
ASHT 04: VARIOUS PROTOCOL DOCUMENTS
Links
School web site http://www.school-portal.co.uk/Grouphomepage.asp?GroupId=46627
Latest inspection http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxcare_providers/urn_search?urn=113867&type=2&submit=Go
City Academy Bristol
| School Name
| City Academy Bristol
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| DCSF number
| 801/6905
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| Town/City
| Bristol
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| County
| Gloucestershire
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| Government region
| South West
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| Number on roll
| 1250
|
| Age range
| 11-18
|
| Specialist status
| Academies
|
| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| 53%
|
| Maths
| 57%
|
| Science
| 52%
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| 21%
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| 11.4%
|
| Keywords
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Description
The City Academy, Bristol, opened in September 2003 and is based in inner city Bristol, serving some of the most deprived wards in the country.
Unemployment remains substancially above the national average and some 51% of students attending the school are in receipt of free school meals. Some 55% are deemed to be in the context of child poverty.
The academy is located in a New Deal for Communities area and is also located in one of the five highest street crime areas of the UK.
The City Academy has just over 1300 learners of which 68% are drawn from ethnic minority groups, as well as about 1 in 10 being asylum seekers or refugees. The academy is
an inclusive learning community, with students with physical disabilities and other learning difficulties. There are 122 statmented students (68 with EBD) with over 400 identified on the code of practice.
There are 20% of academy learners below level 2 on entry, with about 60% of year 7 at level 3 or below. Furthermore, there are 38% of students who speak English as an additional language. The academy intake in 2006 was 2205th in terms of entry levels from 2209 specialist schools and academies.
Resources
CB01: Curriculum description
CB02: Curriculum model
CB03: Curriculum presentation
CB04: Blocking diagram
CB05: KS4 booklet
CB06: Regional workshop presentation pt1
CB07: Regional workshop presentation pt2
CB07: Timetable samples
CB08: Year seven sample timetable
CB09: Year ten sample timetable
CB10: City Academy, Bristol fact sheet
Links
School web site http://www.cityacademybristol.org/
Latest inspection http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/display/(id)/104793
Gordano School
| School Name
| Gordano School
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| DCSF number
| 802/4135
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| Town/City
| Portishead
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| County
| Bristol
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| Government region
| South West
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| Number on roll
| 1757
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| Age range
| 11-18
|
| Specialist status
| Sports
|
| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| 90%
|
| Maths
| 86%
|
| Science
| 85%
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| 66%
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| 1.8%
|
| Keywords
|
|
Description
Resources
GO01: Gordano Curriculum Innovation
Links
School web site http://www.gordano.n-somerset.sch.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=37
Latest inspection http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/display/(id)/85556
John Cabot Academy
| School Name
| John Cabot Academy
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| DCSF number
| 803/6906
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| Town/City
| Kingswood
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| County
| Bristol
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| Government region
| South West
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| Number on roll
| 1036
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| Age range
| 11-19
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| Specialist status
| Academies
|
| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| 79%
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| Maths
| 86%
|
| Science
| 85%
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| 73%
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| 15.8%
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| Keywords
| Curriculum design, accelerated ks3, competency curriculum, condensed ks3, contextual curriculum, deep learning, dialogue with staff, flexible lesson length, flexible use of time, high attainment on entry, ks2 to ks3, learning to learn, nurture key stage model, PBL, personal learning and thinking skills, PLTS, project based learning, reconfiguration 3 (flexible and permeable age cohorts), reconfiguration 5 (flexible time schedules), reconfiguration 7 (competence-based trans-disciplinary curriculum), reconfiguration 7 (competence-based, short ks3, study skills, support, thematic approach, time for guidance, time for mentoring, transition, transition, two-year ks3, vulnerable students, year 7, Cabot Competency Curriculum
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Description
Our curriculum has undergone considerable change in recent years. We have suspended National Curriculum in Year 7 in favour of a personal learning and thinking skills based curriculum called the Cabot Competency Curriculum (CCC). Students spend 2 days per week engaged in largely project based learning and use the other 3 days for Literacy and Numeracy, ICT, Science and Technology, Euro Time and the Arts.
In Year 8 and 9, students follow the National Curriculum and take their SATS in Year 9. Homework in Years 8 and 9 is being replaced by an Extension programme, where students choose from a range of assignments, a project that they particularly want to study. This is communicated to teachers through the website and marking and feedback to students is returned in the same way.
At the start of Year 9, all students start their first GCSE option from a range of BTEC and GCSE courses. This is then completed at the end of Year 10 when AS courses, additional English and Maths, or vocational programmes are introduced into Year 11.
Our Pathways programme in year 10 and 11 is largely responsible for the raised attainment in KS4. (63% 5 A-C grades in 2004 to 83% in 2007) Students follow a core programme around English, Maths, Science and Technology and then a range of choices through our Personalised Learning Pathways.
In the VI Form, there is genuine cohesion between courses taught in KS4 and the continuity to post-16. AS Critical Thinking is taught in KS4 for able students to give them an experience of post-16 learning styles. Students make a choice from 5 option columns, (with scope for a 5 AS course “fast track”) where we have a balance of traditional academic courses aligned with courses from the BTEC suite as well as applied inspired A Level courses such as Photography and Forensic Science which compliment our specialism. Students may return in Year 14 to complete the Foundation course leading to degree status in Art and Design, that in 2007-8 we took over from the University of West England (UWE).
Resources
JC01: Description of curriculum design
JC02: Curriculum policy
JC03: Case Study
JC04: Options information
JC05: Options diagram
JC06: Options blocking
JC07: Example of year 10 timetable
JC08: School floorplan
JC09: Questionnaire feedback
JC10: Ofsted report 2007
JC11: John Cabot
Links
School web site http://www.cabot.ac.uk/
Latest inspection http://www.cabot.ac.uk/DL.php?SOURCE=File&FILE=OFSTED_John_Cabot_2007
St John's School & Community College
| School Name
| St John's School and Community College
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| DCSF number
| 865/5405
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| Town/City
| Marlborough
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| County
| Wiltshire
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| Government region
| South West
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| Number on roll
| 1475
|
| Age range
| 11-18
|
| Specialist status
| Technology and Languages
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| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| 74%
|
| Maths
| 81%
|
| Science
| 82%
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| 65%
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| 2.1%
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| Keywords
|
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Description
Resources
STJO01: St John's School and Community College
Links
School web site http://www.stjohns.wilts.sch.uk/
Latest inspectionhttp://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/display/(id)/104709
South Dartmoor Community College
| School Name
| South Dartmoor Community College
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| DCSF number
| 878/4108
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| Town/City
| Newton Abbot
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| County
| Devon
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| Government region
| South West
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| Number on roll
| 1607
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| Age range
| 11-18
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| Specialist status
| Sports
|
| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| 87%
|
| Maths
| 80%
|
| Science
| 81%
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| 53%
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| 5.0%
|
| Keywords
|
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Description
South Dartmoor Community College is a trust school with specialist sports college. The college is an 11-18, co-educational comprehensive school with 1650 on roll and situated within the national park.
The South Dartmoor Community College curriculum is organised in traditional subjects but with a focus on PLTS through building learning power for all students, fostered by peer support and mentoring by older students of younger students.
There are subject based student learning councils accompanied by an increased rate of progress in Maths, where 20% of students take early SATS in year 8.
The college is trialling early entry to GCSE french in Y9 for some students and there are carousels in technology, humanities, arts and PE subjects throughout KS3.
Resources
SD01: South Dartmoor year 10 timetable structure
SD02: South Dartmoor Community college
SD03: South Dartmoor curriculum policy
SD04: South Dartmoor description of curriculum design
SD05: South Dartmoor example student timetables
SD06: South Dartmoor governers presentations
SD07: South Dartmoor KS4 handbook
SD08: South Dartmoor KS4 options
SD09: South Dartmoor KS4 options 08 draft
SD10: South Dartmoor parents presentation
SD11: South Dartmoor KS5 options 07
SD12: South Dartmoor KS5 options 08
SD13: South Dartmoor KS5 options
West Exe Technology College
| School Name
| West Exe Technology College
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| DCSF number
| 878/4014
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| Town/City
| Exeter
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| County
| Devon
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| Government region
| South West
|
| Number on roll
| 1283
|
| Age range
| 11-16
|
| Specialist status
| Technology, Applied Learning
|
| Key stage 3 results
|
| Level 5 and above, 2007 SATS
|
| English
| 71%
|
| Maths
| 68%
|
| Science
| 71%
|
| 5 A* to C at GCSE including English and Maths, 2007
| 39%
|
| % Special Educational Needs
| 4.4%
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| Keywords
|
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Description
The West Exe curriculum includes the following significant points:
Within a two week timetable, most lessons are 100 minutes long
Students at KS4 follow core subjects three days a week and options subjects two days a week
KS3 is currently traditional in organisation but about to be radically overhauled
KS4 is much more innovative and varied with a great deal of flexibility
Students are able to follow a mix of GCSEs, BTECs and AS levels in combination with specialist vocationally based courses in sport, catering & motor vehicle, according to interest
These courses incorporate work place links and placements; there are plans to expand the range of courses available in 2008-9.
Resources
WE01: Curriculum Description
WE02: Prospectus
WE03: School timetable
WE04: Year nine options
WE05: KS4 options booklet
WE06: Options form
WE07: Options student numbers
WE08: Options offer letter
WE09: West Exe fact sheet
Links
School web site http://www.westexetc.devon.sch.uk/
Latest inspection http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/download/(id)/108924/(as)/113505_325829.pdf
Examples from Futures Vision
City Academy Bristol
Estover Community College
Penryn College
St Johns Language College
West Exe Technology College