Staff List

• Babrul Matin (BMA)
• Miss Afolabi (RAF)
• Jessica Jackson (JJA)
• Julie Forrester (JFO)
• Ian Walsh (IWA)
• Erica McArthur (EMR)
• Natasha Goldson (NGO)
• Monica Mehera (MME)

PGCE Trainee Teachers

• Pauline Blackstock (PBL)
• David Tsan (DTS)

Key Stage 3

Year 7

In the early stages of year 7, the curriculum is specifically geared to welcoming our students to the Academy. The ‘New Surroundings’ module is developed in conjunction with the Competency framework to better integrate our students to their new surroundings in the Academy. In order to maintain a safe standard in school, they are trained with health and safety issues. The students are then introduced to the idea of community and democracy before concluding the year with an Active Citizenship campaign – embedding the three Cs of Citizenship (Community, Cooperation & Change).

Year 8

Students are made aware of local community issues in the first term of year 8. They research about the different groups and gangs in the surrounding communities. Students are then taught how to make a change within their communities by relating to the infrastructure of how local and central government operate (government & politics). In the final term students are encouraged to reflect on their roles as global Citizenship by studying global trade and then taking part in a global Active Citizenship campaign – sending my friend to school project.

Year 9

As students experience the heights of adolescence through year 9, we begin the year with units of study on families and relationships. Our partners then help us to deliver a unit of work on homelessness. Building on the work in year 8, students are then taken through the structure of European Union and the influence of media before concluding the year with an Active Citizenship campaign – the youth philanprathy initiative.

Key Stage 4

Year 10

All year 10 students studying the ASDAN COPE programme – please refer to the relevant section of the website.

Year 11

The year 11 curriculum is very much geared towards equipping our students for the world of work and employment (focusing ahead). Students begin the year by reflecting on their work experience at the end of year 10, they then focus on individual career pathways by preparing their CVs and exploring job and college applications. Students are then encouraged to become financially independent and prepare for the wider world by studying consumerism, globalisation and the credit crunch. Students are taken to the job centre and host motivational guest speakers and are encouraged to work independently with our external partners.