Curriculum

We teach the full National Curriculum at Westfield, with a clear focus on the essential skills of literacy and numeracy. All of our pupils have found learning difficult: our challenge is to offer them teaching that challenges them and that supports them to make excellent progress, but is presented to them in ways that they can manage. This may be through adjustments in the speed at which subjects are covered or it may be through careful selection of the elements of a programme of study that are of most importance to our pupils.

At all times an emphasis is placed on experiential, hands on learning, such as the work our pupils undertake in practical subjects, on the allotment or in the local community.  The purpose of our curriculum is to provide the knowledge, skills and experiences that our pupils will need to take their place as confident and contributing members of society in the world beyond Westfield. For many of them the goal for adult life is meaningful employment and a strong emphasis on vocational education and preparation for adulthood is developed as pupils move through KS4 and Post 16 phases of the school.

Our Curriculum Policy describes the opportunities and pathways presented to learners at Westfield, and our core offer of ‘Broadening Horizons’ for all of our pupils.