The Crawshaw Curriculum

At Crawshaw Academy, we are committed to providing a curriculum that places ‘success for all’ at the heart of what we provide as part of a broad, balanced and meaningful set of learning experiences and opportunities.  The learning experiences are designed and refined to meet the challenges of an increasingly fast-paced global and local economy, enabling students to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.  

The curriculum is further supported with wider elements of learning, and development, such as: personal, cultural and social capital; SEMH and Fundamental British Values delivered through our Curriculum for Life programme. 

We are determined to ensure all our students, whatever their talents or additional needs, find both support and challenge within our curriculum offer. We aim to inspire and motivate all of them with a varied curriculum so that they can progress successfully to the next stage of their educational journey, becoming confident and resilient young people. We believe our curriculum must be flexible and responsive to meet the needs of each individual, as far as resources allow. A range of academic, practical and vocational courses are offered, and our intervention program is planned to support all students to access learning and get the most from the curriculum.  

We run a 3 Year Key Stage 3 curriculum which follows the National Curriculum. Students in Year 9 opt to study one subject from the applied option block. These courses are aligned with our whole school curriculum intent in supporting students to become work ready, providing students an opportunity to experience ‘new’ subjects such as Business, Media and Photography. This approach to Key Stage 3 means that we can teach a broad curriculum for as long as possible and allow students to specialise and deepen knowledge of a subject that interests them and prepares them for the world of work. 

We reserve the right, under exceptional circumstances, to insist that a student accesses their educational provision in an alternative provision to Crawshaw Academy, that better suits their specific circumstances and/or the needs of the rest of the school population.

We are committed to promoting the welfare and interests of our students with special needs, supporting their families and ensuring we do our best to provide accessibility in terms of curriculum provision, human and physical resources including making reasonable adjustments where necessary. We aim to ensure a successful transition to the next step after Crawshaw.