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Curriculum Statement

The Glossopdale School Curriculum from Year 7 to Year 13 aims to:

  • Deliberately, precisely and robustly address social disadvantage while ensuring meaningful, connected and long-term learning for all students.

  • Widen all students’ access to, knowledge, understanding and experience of cultural capital.

  • Develop the essential values needed to support academic progress, cultivate personal integrity and foster motivation to learn.

  • Improve and develop standards of written and oral literacy.

  • Accelerating the progress of Y7 students who arrive below the expected level.

  • Provide a wide variety of engaging, transformational extra-curricular activities that allow students to contribute, collaborate and lead within and beyond the school community.

  • Provide an education beyond the academic that improves students’ personal knowledge to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships and to build their self-efficacy.

  • Ensure all of our students are fully prepared for the next stage of their education or employment.

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Curriculum Aims

Glossopdale School & Sixth Form

Glossopdale School, Newshaw Ln, Hadfield, Glossop SK13 2DA