The school’s curriculum has been developed to both help the students overcome the challenges they have experienced in the past and also to focus on their educational, social and personal development.
The aim is to equip them so that when they leave school, either to return to mainstream education or to take up employment, training or further education, they are able to function independently, happily and successfully.
As a school we offer the full range of National Curriculum subjects, taught at the appropriate levels and with regard for the needs of each student. The curriculum of the school encompasses all the opportunities for learning whether these are formal or informal, timetabled or not.
In planning the curriculum the following factors have been taken into consideration:
Schools have a duty to teach British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those of other faiths and beliefs. Teachers are required, in Conduct section of their Standards, to uphold public trust in the profession by not undermining fundamental British values. The Gateway School expects all staff to model and teach these values. If students believe that anyone at the school is undermining these values, they are to report this to the Headteacher.
Please see how we promote British Values across the curriculum.
The school aims to promote racial harmony and to provide equal opportunity for all regardless of race, gender, religion, social or economic standing.
National Curriculum Subjects:
All of these are enhanced by a range of additional activities/subjects both in and out of the classroom and often outside of the school, these include: