At Conquest School, our curriculum vision is shaped by shared values that all pupils have a right to experience education in a safe and caring environment.  It considers pupils’ Education, Health and Care plans (EHCPs) and places their social, emotional and personal development alongside their academic potential with the same importance.  We believe passionately that when children are placed in an environment that nurtures confidence, self-esteem and has high expectations of learning, they begin to flourish. 

Lessons at Conquest School motivate, engage, and excite our pupils. Clear routes of progression and development within curriculum planning result in coherence and continuity throughout the school.  

With the complex learning and behaviour needs of our pupils we acknowledge that the needs of each individual are central and that the provision offered should be sufficiently flexible to enable pupils to be placed at an appropriately challenging point on the continuum at any time during their school career.  

Our school works in partnership with parents/ carers and the views of parents/ carers and pupils are taken into account in achieving the appropriate balance between pupils’ rights to curriculum access and the need for some to access other experiences such as alternative curriculum, mainstream inclusion, therapeutic interventions or intensive tuition to enhance or consolidate core skills and talents. Curriculum development in conjunction with the needs of the individual, strives to ensure maximum progress for all pupils. Our curriculum aims to:  

• Ensure that all pupils have access to broad, balanced, challenging curriculum based on National Curriculum.
• Ensure quality curriculum content through systematic curriculum planning, monitoring and reviewing procedures.
• Ensure that all pupils have access to an appropriately differentiated curriculum.
• Ensure that pupils cover Programmes of Study and develop learning strategies needed to transfer between special school and mainstream provision.
• Provide pupils with access to accredited courses at Key Stage 4.

Research demonstrates that pupils learn best when learning is connected, practical, cross curricular and linked to reality. At each stage of our curriculum our intent is to equip our pupils with skills for their next stage of education and ultimately for life.