Victoria School offers a broad and balanced curriculum that helps prepare all students for increasing involvement in a fulfilling social and cultural life.
All learning pathways aim to provide a curriculum that delivers LIFE: a love of learning, promotion of independence, a focus on the future and high quality enrichment.
After completing the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), students will follow one of three learning pathways:
- Pre-Formal – communication
- Semi-Formal – communication, life skills
- Formal – communication, life skills, active citizenship
These skills are delivered discretely through lessons, but also permeate all aspects of the curriculum. The curriculum will:
- Developing learners’ levels of engagement by finding out what interests and motivates them
- Igniting curiosity
- Equipping and supporting learners to persist through difficulties and setbacks
- Supporting learners to grasp new opportunities
- Providing explicit instructions and sufficient time for learners to repeat, practise, maintain and consolidate skills to develop independence
- Providing the appropriate degree of scaffolding to lead learners to great independence
- Building self-esteem and confidence
- Developing a sense of belonging and importance to support them to contribute to society
- Fostering self-reliance, allowing learners to feel they have control over their life
- Making explicit reference to how learning is relevant to life
- Linking learning to life skills
- Maximising opportunities to experience and interact with the wider community
- Offering a wide range of enrichment opportunities through our LEAP Programme
- A comprehensive expressive arts curriculum offer, delivered by specialist teachers and involving a range of specialist visitors and enrichment visits
- Themed weeks off timetable in sport and creative arts
- A wide range of trips and external visitors to enrich aspects of the taught curriculum
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
Inspire a love of Learning through:
Promote Independence through:
Focus on the Future through:
Provide Enrichment opportunities and experiences through:
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
We plan an exciting and challenging curriculum based on our observation of children’s needs, interests, and stages of development across the EYFS seven areas of learning.
All seven areas of learning and development are important and inter-connected.
The three prime areas are crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive. These three areas are:
Children are also supported through the four specific areas, through which the prime areas are strengthened and applied. The specific areas are:
Formal Learning Pathway
Formal Pathway
Formal Pathway Overview
Semi-Formal Learning Pathway
Semi-Formal Pathway
Semi-Formal Pathway Overview
Pre-Formal Learning Pathway
Pre-Formal Pathway
Pre-Formal Pathway Overview
Teaching & Learning
Every moment is a learning opportunity at Victoria School. We provide lessons which are meaningful, accessible, motivating, contextualised and appropriately challenging to maximise progress for each child.
The teaching team has a thorough understanding of each child’s point of learning; their interests, strengths and barriers, developmental stage and learning level.
Learners are supported to develop attention, self-motivation, a “have a go” attitude and to take risks in their learning. They will be enabled to use their skills in a range of contexts, to become increasingly independent, resourceful and resilient when faced with challenges.
Learning is promoted through well organised classrooms and routines, appropriately paced and motivating activities with assessment for learning firmly embedded across all contexts.
Courses and accreditation
As students progress through the school there is an increasing emphasis on preparing them for life beyond Victoria.
Alongside accreditation in a range of subjects, students can access a wide range of enrichment and vocational opportunities where they can develop their individual interests and skills.
Off-Site Learning and Activities
Learning that takes place away from the classroom is an important part of the curriculum.
Recognising the value of off-site opportunities, we provide a rich programme of activities and events that capture the imagination and provoke a genuine excitement for learning.
All classes have regular opportunities to take part in educational trips and activities and to meet visitors for example they go to the theatre, local farms, other schools, sporting venues, musical events.
Read our Educational Visits Policy