Our Curriculum

Intent

The Intent of the University of Lincoln Academy Trust Curriculum is to empower our pupils to flourish academically, socially, linguistically, morally and spiritually. Our Curriculum is the single best opportunity that we have to help our pupils flourish and improve their life choices.

The UoLAT Curriculum is the embodiment of the mission statement of the Trust ‘To transform the lives of our pupils and our communities by creating opportunities and experiences that enhance life choices, enabling them to be known and to flourish’. It is rooted in the Trust’s values of ambition, inclusion and integrity in the firm belief that all our pupils deserve an excellent, inclusive education. It is expertly designed, carefully curated and precisely sequenced by expert teachers working in collaboration with colleagues across the Trust and incorporating best practice from across the sector.

Design

Our curriculum is carefully designed, curated and sequenced to provide the breadth and depth of knowledge which covers in full the content of the National Curriculum and goes significantly further adding breadth, depth challenge and wonder. Our pupils learn powerful substantive and disciplinary knowledge which is carefully sequenced and systematically revisited across all key stages to ensure retention and increase depth over time, developing secure schemas of knowledge.

Cornerstones

Our curriculum is designed and continuously developed within these agreed Curriculum Cornerstones:

The Curriculum is POWERFUL
Pupils acquire and retain knowledge that takes them beyond their own experiences

The curriculum is CONNECTED
Creating schema within and across subjects, with careers and personal development

The curriculum is SEQUENCED
Knowledge is thoughtfully sequenced and deliberately mapped

The curriculum is INFORMED
Embracing research and evidence of how children learn and remember

The curriculum is CONTEXTUAL
Using local values, expertise and experiences to bring the curriculum to life

Framework

The Macro Curriculum – the model of timetabling, including decisions about the subjects taught and the configuration of allocated time. These decisions are made at a Trust level to ensure equitable experiences and enable the sharing of subject-expert schemes and resources.
The UoLAT Curriculum – the substantive and disciplinary knowledge taught within and across subjects.
The Extended Curriculum – the broader learning experiences which develop pupils’ character, leadership, virtues, resilience and personality beyond the taught curriculum. This involves exposure to cultural capital, spiritual and moral awareness, sporting and creative opportunities and deeper personal enrichment beyond that taught within curriculum subjects. These include, but are not limited to, theatre and museum visits, public-speaking or computer-coding competitions and opportunities to represent the school on a regional or national basis, such as the National Mock Court Trial Competition.