We aim to provide the highest quality learning experience through exciting, engaging and bespoke teaching and careers focused opportunities.
Emily Wilding Davison School is an inclusive, supportive and positive environment with personal and moral development, and learning at the heart of our core values. It is the means by which we offer and put into practice a curriculum which is broad and balanced, built around the offer of the National Curriculum, intent on providing the best outcomes for our students. We implement this through collaborative work; involving parents, multi-disciplinary professionals and the wider community, in a setting which embeds RESPECT, INTEGRITY, COMPASSION, HONESTY and TRUST within the educational focus in school.
Using the EHCP as the starting point of each student’s education, we provide access to the curriculum through clearly defined pathways – our creative staff differentiate teaching to motivate learners and meet their individual needs; with removal of barriers to learning, communication development and positive mental health support underpinning our curriculum approach.
Utilising EHCP information and baseline assessments a bespoke learning pathway is identified and followed in Key Stage 3, preparing students for their Key Stage 4 choices and beyond. In Key Stage 3 learning is delivered via a creative and broad curriculum, differentiated to meet students differing needs.
Once a learning pathway is established at the end of Key Stage 3, our Key Stage 4 students focus on a curriculum to prepare them for adulthood with knowledge and employability skills.
Reading
Here at EWD reading and literacy are at the heart of our curriculum and promoted through both guided and independent reading. Through a personalised pathway, all of our learners strive to make swift progress in reading. EWD has a varied curriculum that allows us to incorporate reading into every corner of learning. Our extensive work and expertise has led to 89.9% of our learners making rapid reading progress in an academic year, a figure we endeavour to improve year on year.
Our reading programmes include Read, Write Inc (for phonics), Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader to supplement other appraoches to reading; such as sight reading and comprehension focuses. These programs are evidence-informed and highly practical. We use baseline data to create personalised targets making literacy accessible and inclusive for all of or learners with a clear focus on the impact on pupils’ attitudes and attainment in reading.
For further information on our curriculum approaches in school please contact Claire Leeson our Teaching and Learning Lead.
