General
Our Curriculum Intent
At Bromley Trust Academy Midfield we offer a language rich curriculum that is inclusive, ambitious, purposeful, appropriately challenging, and responsive to children’s needs and interests.
Teaching and Learning permeates every facet of school life. All our pupils experience quality first teaching. Teachers foster an enjoyment and curiosity for learning and facilitate progress for all through engaging learning experiences. We want to create the optimum learning environment for all pupils, regardless of their ability, individual starting points, or previous educational experiences.
We aim to engage all pupils in education so that they see themselves as learners who can make progress, be successful and aim for excellence. Our subject areas are coherently and cumulatively planned and sequenced to equip pupils with the knowledge and key, transferable skills which allow them to flourish in life beyond BTA and to support a transition on to the right provision for every pupil.
Our curriculum is built upon children’s past, current and shared learning experiences, and interests. We regularly collect the thoughts and feelings of pupils through pupil voice and use these views to review and enhance our curriculum to ensure it is inspiring, purposeful, reflective of our school community and engaging to all.
We prioritise and develop children’s spiritual, moral, social, cultural and emotional development and their mental health and well-being throughout the curriculum. Our curriculum is underpinned by our Core Values of DECIDE: Discovery, Endeavour, Community, Independence, Decision and Everyday. These values play a key role and are woven throughout our learning experiences for all.
When planning the curriculum, we utilise the schools’ grounds well, including Scadbury Park Nature Reserve (which is used for our Forest School sessions) to provide a rich environment for enquiry-based learning. The vast experiences children are provided with reflect the diverse local and wider community we live in. We are mindful that the local community to our school may not be reflective of the local community to where our pupils live, as many may travel into school from some distance. Because of this, we extend our local community far beyond just our local Library, Woods and High Street and we ensure pupils are provided with experiences further afield; for example, trips to the Science Museum in London, experiencing Margate Beach at the end of the summer term, Danson Park boating etc.
Community and beyond experiences ensure that pupils develop a rich and contextualised understanding of the key learning and how to be an effective member of a community that contributes to society. These experiences also provide opportunities for the structured and contextualised development of social skills and collaboration, which are vital for the development of pupils at BTAM. Through this teaching, pupils reinforce the British Values of mutual respect and tolerance, and individual liberty.
Our curriculum is designed to ensure that children leave BTAM as confident, independent and thoughtful learners who communicate effectively, demonstrate self-regulation, resilience and empathy for others.
Class Curriculum Maps
Our Curriculum Subjects:
Early Years and Foundation Stage
PSHE
Community and Life Skills
STEAM
All schools within London South East Academies Trust have a Designated Safeguarding Lead who has overall responsibility for safeguarding and child protection within their school and can be contacted directly in order to discuss any concerns.
Each Safeguarding Lead is supported in their role by the Head of School (if not the safeguarding lead)/ Executive Headteacher to ensure we maintain every students safety and welfare. Regular and robust training is delivered to all staff within the Trust with the support of Bromley Safeguarding Childrens Board, Local Authority Designated Officer and using the Ofsted criteria. This includes the delivery of annual and when required, specific staff training relating to Child Sexual Exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation, Children Missing Education, Prevent and British Values in addition to a clear structured support for staff to address challenging and complex safeguarding concerns.
Our Designated Safeguarding Trustee regularly participates and monitors our Policy and practice across the Trust Schools, which will be updated and adapted in line with Local and National changes in legislation outside of the regular annual review.
All London South East Academies Trust schools will endeavour to support the welfare and safety of all students through:
- Promoting and maintaining a whole school culture of safeguarding awareness and proactive response to concerns.
- Ensuring student welfare is the paramount concern and responsibility of all staff to identify children who may be in need of extra help or who are likely to suffer significant harm.
- Providing appropriate support and guidance to students to enable them to have a range of appropriate adults whom they feel confident to approach if they are in difficulty.
- Ensuring the curriculum contains social and emotional aspects of learning.
- Ensuring that safeguarding is included in the curriculum to enable students to stay safe, recognise when they don’t feel safe and identify who they might/can talk to help them.
- Promoting a positive and supportive environment where students can develop a sense of being valued and heard in their own right.
- Ensuring all steps are taken to maintain the school site security and students physical safety.
- Working and communicating regularly with parents to build an understanding of the school’s responsibility to ensure the welfare of all students including the need for external agencies when it is deemed necessary.
- Regular whole safeguarding training creating a measured, generic approach to identifying and addressing concerns raised.
- Ensuring all staff are able to recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and are aware of the schools procedures, lines of communication in order to take appropriate action.
- Monitoring students who have been identified as having welfare or safeguarding concerns;
- Keeping confidential records which are stored securely and shared appropriately with other professionals.
- Developing and maintaining effective and supportive partnership working with external agencies in order to promote student wellbeing.
Designated Leads:
- Beth Moore - Group Executive Director of Student Experience and Safeguarding - has overall responsibility for safeguarding within the Trust, with accountability shared through the Headteachers, Welfare Officers and Behaviour Leads in each School.
Safeguarding Leads:
- BTA Midfield – Paul Bailey DSL and Debbie Blake Deputy DSL
- BTA Hayes – Myra Brown DSL
Please note all staff including Agency staff, are all carefully vetted to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students.
At Midfield Campus, teaching and learning extends beyond the classroom. Class teachers set individually tailored homework tasks to meet the needs of each pupil; homework is specifically aimed at consolidating, reinforcing and extending the class-based learning which takes place every day.
Children are placed in ability sets for Literacy and Numeracy and homework is set to ensure that it is in line with their learning for that week. Every child is set an appropriate number of homework tasks, these are sent home on Monday and returned to school on the Friday of every week. Numeracy homework is set via the learning platform Education City (www.educationcity.com). Reading eggs (www.readingeggs.com) is also available for the children to extend their reading skills and each child will be given their own login to access these sites.
Homework tasks may include a maths activity based on the current or previous weeks learning, spelling words with a spelling pattern or phoneme focus, writing tasks or a creative activity which further explores any topic or celebration being covered in class at that time.
Bromley Trust Academy supports all aspects of children's learning, including homework, and encourages children to develop responsibility, confidence and independence.
Our SEMH Support Service for Schools team works in partnership with the Local Authority and with schools. The expert team helps to address the complex challenges presented by students with SEMH while in their mainstream settings.
Together, we seek to ensure that the needs of these students are identified and understood by all of those around them.
Key contacts:
Claire Muccio - Head of Service - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Marcia White - Senior Outreach Advisor - Secondary -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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