19th September 2025
HEADLINES
By James Saunders
QUALITY OF EDUCATION 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.
11. Require learners to build and demonstrate a strong set of shared values
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Recognise the importance of connecting with prior learning
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Be rich in literacy, numeracy and oracy
They all bring a range of experience and expertise in their fields and have made a great start to supporting our learners.
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Require learners to showcase their learning If you are unfamiliar with our five capitals here is a quick recap/summary of them: effectively
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Be transparent and demonstrate progress
12. Enable learners to leave us resilient, confident and successful so they can embrace their future
These curriculum principles can be mapped I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of across our five capitals. It won’t surprise you to our five capitals (Moral, Social, Cultural, Knowledge know that they are mostly concentrated in the and Professional) and highlight our curriculum development of knowledge capital. The thing that principles. 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 HONYWOOD CURRICULUM PRINCIPLES continually develop. With that in mind I would Our capital enhancing curriculum should: like to welcome the new teachers who have started with us this year. Ms Webb has joined 1. Foster a love for learning the Geography team; Mr Rassell joins the History team; Ms Felstead joins the Science team and Ms 2. Be challenging, rigorous and personalised Green joins the English team. We also welcome Mrs Hurst to the learner reception and Ms Staley 3. Offer breadth and depth of learning to the LSA team 4. Be knowledge rich and culturally enhancing
• Moral Capital: Day to day all learners and staff live through our core values and promote 9. Allow learners to acquire and develop their equity and well being. knowledge, skills and attributes • Social Capital: All learners leave Honywood 10. Model success and aspire for excellence fully prepared with the resilience, attributes