20th September 2024
HEADLINES
By James Saunders
QUALITY OF EDUCATION It feels as though every year we have a new challenge that tries to pull us away from our core purpose. After conquering the RAAC situation last year we look forward to a challenge/crisis free year (fingers crossed). I for one am glad to be able to devote more time and energy to our strategic plans rather than building plans. We enter the year with our efforts fully committed to what we value most - the quality of the education at Honywood. Our capital enhancing curriculum continues to underpin our vision and is just as much about developing what we teach our learners as it is, how we teach them. Building character and achieving success continue to be a part of what we do. Our aim is for learners to leave us happy as well as successful. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of our five capitals (Moral, Social, Cultural, Knowledge and Professional) and highlight our curriculum principles. Please click the icon to view the video.
Moral Capital
Social Capital
Knowledge Capital
Cultural Capital
Professional Capital
HONYWOOD CURRICULUM PRINCIPLES Our capital enhancing curriculum should: 1. Foster a love for learning 2. Be challenging, rigorous and personalised 3. Offer breadth and depth of learning
4. Be knowledge rich and culturally enhancing 5. Recognise the importance of connecting with prior learning 6. Be rich in literacy, numeracy and oracy 7. Require learners to showcase their learning effectively 8. Be transparent and demonstrate progress 9. Allow learners to acquire and develop their knowledge, skills and attributes 10. Model success and aspire for excellence 11. Require learners to build and demonstrate a strong set of shared values 12. Enable learners to leave us resilient, confident and successful so they can embrace their future These curriculum principles can be mapped across our five capitals. It won’t surprise you to know that they are mostly concentrated in the development of knowledge capital. The thing that will make the most difference to success in this area is ensuring we have built a challenging and aspirational learning experience that progresses over the five years learners study with us. And the thing that ensures optimum execution of this curriculum content: great teaching and learning and great teachers. These are the things we will continue to develop into this year. With that in mind I would like to welcome the new teachers who have started with us this year. Mr Mantle has joined the Science department; Miss Strachan joins the English team; Mr Pragnell and Miss Goodchild both join the Maths team; Miss Da-Silva joins the Art team; Ms Soris joins the Computer Science team. They all bring a wealth of experience and expertise in their fields and have made a great start to teaching our learners. If you are unfamiliar with our five capitals here is a quick recap/summary of them: • •
Moral Capital: Day to day all learners and staff live through our core values and promote equity and well being. Social Capital: All learners leave Honywood