Doubletrees School Curriculum - What is our curriculum design and why?

Our curriculum is designed to ensure our learners achieve their full potential, are able to communicate their needs, knowledge, choices and aspirations and enjoy their school experience. We value each learner highly as individuals and aim to personalise all their learning experiences as much as possible. We do this by using both their EHCPs and the National curriculum, which is adapted as necessary to enable the learners to access it, whatever their needs.

Our learners broadly follow three different curriculum pathways:

• Engagement -  Our pre-formal learning pathway
• Exploration – our semi-formal learning pathway
• Discovery – Our formal learning pathway.

Further details of the learning pathways are available in the Learning Pathways document.

How will we teach it?

Our ethos and values continue to underpin our curriculum. We take a mastery approach to all learning, first teaching discrete skills, then offering increasing opportunities to rehearse and embed these across different contexts so that the learning becomes generalised and lifelong, before we move on to the next steps.

Our learners progress through the following phases of school, each of which is accompanied by a long term rolling scheme of work:

Within each phase, there are classes that follow one of our three learning pathways.

The long-term schemes of work are included below. Where relevant, the National Curriculum outcomes are included. This is to give focus to the purpose of learning and offer aspirational endpoints. Though most of our learners work below age-related expectations, their learning may be ‘spikey’ and these are included as our learners may access and achieve in the areas they may excel at . It enables us to offer a broad and balanced curriculum where we aim to use termly themes to inspire and enthuse our learners in their learning.

More information on our personalised learning approaches are contained in our curriculum overview document, which explains how we adapt to suit various learning styles, cohorts and needs.

Doubletrees School welcomes the opportunity to work with parents, members of the local community and other agencies. We endeavour to provide all pupils with appropriate extended enrichment opportunities and encouragement to participate, achieve and enjoy their learning.

Please click on the green box to your right, to gain more details on our subject-based curriculum designs and rationales.

What do we aim to achieve?

As our learners continue on their journey through school, we increase the focus on developing life skills and independence, enriching the learning with real life, contextual experiences as we prepare our learners to be able to access the wider world and achieve their full potential.  Accreditations and qualifications are offered to all learners at key stages 4 and 5.

Our Classes;

Lower School - 

Oak class and Juniper class - are in our EYFS Pathway

Holly class – Learners in this class follow our Exploration pathway

Cedar class - Learners in this class follow our Discovery pathway

Rowan class – Learners in this class follow our Engagement pathway

Hazel class – Learners in this class follow our Exploration pathway

Middle School - 

Willow class -  Learners in this class follow our Exploration pathway

Maple class - Learners in this class follow our Discovery pathway

Apple class -  Learners in this class follow our Engagement pathway

Sycamore class – Learners in this class follow our Exploration pathway

Upper School - 

Elm class -  Learners in this class follow our Exploration pathway

Redwood class - Learners in this class follow our Engagement pathway

Cherry - Learners in this class follow our Discovery pathway

Do you want more information on our curriculum?

Please do not hesitate to contact the school and ask to speak to a member of our senior leadership team who will be happy to answer any further queries you may have, or email enquiries@doubletrees.org.uk.