Our Curriculum
‘Bringing Learning To Life: No Limits. No Barriers.’
Please click here to see our curriculum planning overview:
Curriculum Overview
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For further details on specific learning per year group, please refer to our learning journey maps page.
At Ocean Academy, our inclusive curriculum will challenge and nurture each child to develop a strong sense of self through a purposeful, engaging and authentic learning journey; preparing resilient and confident learners who have the knowledge, skills and cultural awareness to embrace an ever-changing world.
Our curriculum ensures the development of the knowledge, skills and qualifications required for success by ensuring that all children at Ocean Academy learn in a challenging and supportive environment through a well-developed, progressive curriculum which encourages creativity, celebrates diversity and utilises knowledge, skills and cultural experiences to become active citizens in modern Britain.
Our curriculum has been designed to:
- Be broad, balanced and inclusive
- Be reflective and adaptable to meet the needs of our learners
- Be purposeful, authentic and guided by the needs of our community
- Be highly engaging through challenge and purpose
- Develop and nurture the whole child and value each area of the curriculum equally
- Be progressive and construct strong schemas of knowledge; built on solid foundations of prior learning and understanding
- Give children the opportunity to apply their understanding to real-life, purposeful situations and scenarios
- Encourage pupil voice so that learners can have ownership, seek to improve and make connections
Ocean Academy, as part of the Aspirations Academies Trust, shares a common philosophy and a distinctive approach to education. There are three guiding principles that all Aspirations Academies adhere to and are central to the curriculum:
- Self-worth
- Engagement
- Purpose