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Curriculum for Life
Learning Journeys
Learning Journeys are constantly reviewed and updated in order to respond to local issues and areas of concern within our school community.
Further details of topics covered can be found in the Learning Journey for each year group.
Should you require further information regarding the CfL programme, please contact Joanne Robertshaw, CfL Programme Leader robertshawj@ca.rklt.co.uk
Curriculum for Life (CfL) equips Crawshaw students to lead a safe, informed, and successful life whilst embracing Crawshaw’s core aims of excellence, purpose and ambition. It promotes community mindedness, tolerance, a sense of responsibility and enables pupils to identify their own aspirations for the future.
We do this by the delivery of PSHE (physical, social, health and economic) education at Crawshaw Academy. It is divided into four areas: Personal Wellbeing and Mental Health, Sex and Relationship Education, Social Education and Physical Health and Wellbeing. Through quality first teaching and resources students are provided with the skills they need to navigate life after school and keep themselves safe. Students will be encouraged to explore issues relevance to our community and have the chance to discuss their understanding of topics including budgeting, healthy relationships and the effects of drugs. The knowledge and skills gained will enable pupils to make informed decisions and recognise risks in different situations they encounter. These skills will support our pupils to pursue a wide range of careers and destinations.
The Curriculum is constantly reviewed and adapted to meet the needs of Crawshaw students.
This is achieved by monitoring issues in the local area, student surveys and working closely with the Safeguarding Team. As a result, the emphasis within the curriculum regularly changes. The impact of the lessons is assessed through questioning and homework.
Resilience provides Crawshaw pupils with strategies to approach life’s challenges and overcome them.
Following the lockdowns a gap has been identified in the emotional and social development of pupils, particularly in KS3, and their ability to show resilience in response to challenge. Resilience lessons have been introduced in 2023-24 to address this gap and enhance the curriculum. The lessons are designed to allow pupils to explore expected and unexpected changes and the challenges that these bring. They move on to the understanding and development of resilience in order that pupils can effectively express how they feel, control their emotions and move forwards. Different coping strategies are taught so that the pupils can apply these throughout life enabling them to be resilient.
The curriculum then moves on to promote success and raise achievements of our pupils by giving them an understanding as to how memory works and how this can be used to maximise the effectiveness of revision. The pupils will be taught how to get the most out of their time by improving organisation and applying strategies around revision and building confidence.
To promote well-being and intrinsic motivation Resilience incorporates the British Values and how these form the basis of citizenship, as well as the importance of employability skills and how to develop these.
How does the curriculum teach children about risk?
The CfL curriculum is a spiral curriculum, which continuously reviewed and adapted to respond to the issues for our pupils at any one time.
In order to address the new challenges of attending secondary school pupils learn about road safety in the first few weeks of year 7. They go onto look at coercive relationships, exploring what these might look like. This idea is revisited in year 8 where they look at positive relationships, consent, contraception and STIs. Further personal risks are introduced such as smoking, vaping alcohol and drugs. Pupils are educated about self-esteem and the impact that the media can have on mental health.
These ideas are built upon in year 9 where pupils explore mental health, anxiety, depression and self-harm. Smoking and vapour are reviewed and the dangerous of drug use introduced. The pupils also look at pregnancy and abortion, building on topics of contraception from year 8.
In year 10 these foundations are deepened by looking at drug addiction, forced marriages, honour-based violence and acceptable behaviours.
This moves onto the study of harmful sexual behaviours, bodily autonomy and relationships and the law in year 11.
The order of lessons is adapted to respond to pupil need. For example online safety is currently being introduced in each year group following an assembly on the topic. This has always been taught but has been brought forward in response to information form the DSL. Serious and organised crime was added in 2023 due to local issues. To enrich the teaching of this, external speakers from St Giles are coming into school to talk to KS3 about weapon awareness and county lines.
We do this by the delivery of PSHE (physical, social, health and economic) education at Crawshaw Academy.
It is divided into four areas: Personal Wellbeing and Mental Health, Sex and Relationship Education, Social Education and Physical Health and Wellbeing. Through quality first teaching and resources students are provided with the skills they need to navigate life after school and keep themselves safe. Students will be encouraged to explore issues relevance to our community and have the chance to discuss their understanding of topics including budgeting, healthy relationships and the effects of drugs. The knowledge and skills gained will enable pupils to make informed decisions and recognise risks in different situations they encounter. These skills will support our pupils to pursue a wide range of careers and destinations.
The Curriculum is constantly reviewed and adapted to meet the needs of Crawshaw students. This is achieved by monitoring issues in the local area, student surveys and working closely with the Safeguarding Team. As a result the emphasis within the curriculum regularly changes. The impact of the lessons is assessed through questioning and homework.
Students in years 7, 8 and 11 receive 1 hour CfL per fortnight delivered as a form group by their form tutor.
Students in years 9 and 10 will receive 1 hour per fortnight core CfL delivered by their form tutor in their form, and an additional hour per fortnight taught as a mixed year group class.
Resilience has been introduced in years 7 and 8, as an additional hour per fortnight.
As a secondary academy school, we must provide Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) to all students as per section 34 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017. The new statutory RSE curriculum will be compulsory from September 2020 and at Crawshaw we have been delivering RSE in line with statutory guidance.
Further details of the delivery of RSE can be found in the Relationship and Sex Education Policy under Our Policies.
- Learning at Crawshaw
- The Crawshaw Curriculum
- Personal Development
- Subjects
- Homework/Independent learning
- Remote learning
- Exams Information
- Learning Resource Centre
- Post 16 Provision
- Future Ready/CEIAG
