At SUA we aim to give our students the greatest teaching and learning experience. Lessons are planned to be thought-provoking and generate curiosity and inspiration. Students are taught to achieve the highest level of knowledge and skills and are encouraged to demonstrate this to a sophisticated level. Our curriculum planning, which is carefully sequenced over a seven-year journey, is concept-led ensuring that all learners can apply their prior knowledge to new contexts, thus enhancing their ability to retrieve their learning and secure it into their long-term memory. We are relentlessly focused on making our students lifelong learners.
All lessons will have a clearly identified sequence that includes the use of memory retrieval strategies, clearly modelled examples and opportunities for students to develop their independence. Teachers will use a variety of assessment for learning techniques to gain continuous learner feedback followed by the use of a range of adaptive teaching strategies to help support deeper learning of content.
At key stage 4 and key stage 5 students enter the qualifications phase of their learning. Throughout this time, they are given opportunities to deepen their thinking with a series of application tasks and challenging activities to match the rigour required of them for their exams. Exam practice and analysis of high grade responses will be a key feature of these lessons, to enable learners to reflect upon and improve their own responses, to secure the best outcomes in their final exams.
