Our Venture view, in line with the OAT view, of curriculum is that

• It extends between the ages of 11-16 at Venture, within a wider coherent curriculum from ages 2-19.

• It includes both the formal timetabled curriculum and all the informal learning and development that occurs outside the timetable.

• It is a plan or strategy for progression for our pupils: how we move them from a state where they have not acquired specific knowledge, skills, experience and dispositions, to a state where they have acquired these.

• It encompasses everything that pupils acquire: what they know, what they can do, what experiences they have had and how they are likely to behave.

• It involves a deliberate choice to select, from all the possible knowledge, skills, experiences and dispositions, those which we believe pupils should acquire.

• It responds to well-designed assessment which tells us whether pupils have acquired what was intended.

In Venture the purpose of the curriculum is aligned with our purpose as a Trust:

TEACH – the curriculum sets out the knowledge and skills pupils are entitled to

DEVELOP – the curriculum sets out how pupils will develop socially and emotionally

CHANGE – the curriculum should be designed so that any pupil can excel, so that no one is disadvantaged, barriers are removed and there is equal opportunity for all

We have worked with all members of the Venture community to develop our Curriculum Statement which underpins our beliefs and vision for our curriculum.