Curriculum intent for Lotus learners:
- Prepare students for life
- Embed basic literacy & numeracy
- Build social & emotional skills and develop mental wellbeing
- Provide access to the National Curriculum so that all students can access qualifications at some point in their education
- Tailor learning to students’ baseline & build from there
Every subject within the curriculum will:
- Include National Curriculum objectives tailored to Lotus student needs
- Work towards a qualification
- Be sequenced to build knowledge and skill over time
- Repeat, revisit, and recall knowledge and skills regularly so that students deeply embed and remember
- Teach reading, writing & numeracy
- Teach skills to support & develop SEMH
- Build in complexity each year so that students revisit knowledge & skills at a harder level
- Assess progress meaningfully and regularly