At North Kesteven Academy we encourage high ambition in a supportive and stimulating environment. By celebrating individuals’ achievements, we enable everyone to be happy, responsible, respectful, creative and confident.

Intent

Values and Ethos

At North Kesteven Academy we encourage high ambition in a supportive and stimulating environment. By celebrating individuals’ achievements, we enable everyone to be happy, responsible, respectful, creative and confident.

Our Mission at North Kesteven Academy

Our mission is to ensure that all of our students:

  • develop a love for learning, which they carry with them throughout their lives.
  • develop ambition to become experts in a broad range of subjects by challenging themselves to be excellent and to creatively think about how to overcome barriers.
  • are prepared for the world of work; they are equipped with the qualifications and skills they need; have choices about their further education and employment and are successful in any work environment.
  • become determined, resilient, confident and kind people, who show compassion and act with integrity.

Our curriculum is:

Balanced

Develops knowledge across a generous breadth of academic, practical and creative subjects to develop students’ curiosity, spark and broaden their interests and to encourage a brave and enquiring mind in order to amaze us, and themselves. 

Vertically-integrated

Knowledge sticks to knowledge.  Our curriculum must ensure that no learner is left behind and has the requisite knowledge for the next step, combatting cumulative dysfluency; it must also ensure that the steps are very carefully sequenced in order to aid progression. 

The right narrative and the right questions unlock learning.  We are fundamentally structuring our curriculum around very carefully sequenced ‘big questions’ that are a part of a clear overriding narrative that gives our curriculum a sense of purpose and direction. 

Focused 

Our curriculum takes its time on the deep learning that makes a difference and knows what matters.  It gives us the precise data and information that we require so that we can be responsive to the needs of our learners.

We have thought carefully about what to leave out and about the key questions that need to be asked and answered in order to develop expertise.

Coherent 

We find opportunities for subjects to complement each other in order to present a coherent approach to shared concepts and vocabulary. 

Rigorous 

Our curriculum gives students the opportunity to learn about the very best that has been thought and said from all over the world.  We give students a rich vault of subject-specific knowledge & vocabulary – both inter-disciplinary (tier 2) and discipline-specific (tier 3). 

Our curriculum explicitly values and develops vocabulary and places it at the heart of learning. 

Authentic 

We are developing a curriculum that feels relevant and authentic for learners and helps them to make connections and equips them with the skills required for the future labour market.  We make it clear why what they are doing is relevant and expose them to a world beyond their world.