The Forum School’s Core Vision

At The Forum School, we believe that education is a powerful gift and is ours to give.  We are committed to delivering inspirational teaching that develops independent and responsible individuals who aspire to achieve their full potential. Throughout the School, we respect and value each young person. 

Providing a safe, secure and engaging learning environment, we will ensure that our young people gain a wealth of learning opportunities and life experiences as they move on their pathway to adulthood.

The Forum School's Five Year Curriculum Vision

Over the next five years The Forum school will evaluate and redesign its curriculum to provide our young people with an engaging, exciting and empowering curriculum that equips them for today and tomorrow. 

The one singular core aim is to:

‘Explicitly continue to develop our curriculum so that it provides our young people with the best chance of succeeding into the future in a world of an ever changing educational landscape and fulfils the school’s core vision’.

In order to achieve this aim, the school will conduct an environmental scan over the Autumn term 2024 to ensure that future curriculum development continues to provide a curriculum conducive to the specific and individual needs of our children.

For the purpose of this document, the Forum School will define an ‘environmental scan’ as: an evaluation of the practice and resources the school uses to provide learning needs and provision for our children so that all learners learn.

The school believes that its educational provision should stand out from other schools and is seen that:

• We don’t ‘copy’ what others do
• We carry out continuous action research to provide a Forum context for our young people
• We are what it says on the tin…what is inside is transparent
• Our Learning Values of Respect, Kindness and Creativity are clear and embedded in all that we do
• Building cultural capital is right for our young people (the essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for their future success).  The school wants our young people to have unique experiences that are built in to growing minds so that they can draw on cultural awareness, giving them the best possible start to their education

 Moving forward

The School will select  Key Point Indicators (KPIs) to systematically examine ourselves and our practices within the ‘immediate and longer term picture’.  These will include:

• Termly curriculum monitoring and subject development
• Focused half termly learning walks – are we actually teaching what we have set out to teach?
• School Deep Dives
• Reflection and review points to measure impact –
• Annual external reviews
• Code of Conduct and Behaviour Policy evaluation and reviews

From these KPIs, the school will ensure that goals and actions are implemented into the academic year and provide:

• A shared community of what a great curriculum looks – articulating this to all stakeholders and the wider community
• Developing actions for the School’s School Improvement Plan (SIP) with clear processes and implementation – developing and putting into practice what has been planned
• A strong coherence of what is being taught
• Curriculum intent at the heart of planning
• A good sequenced curriculum that provides layered knowledge for children to build on year on year, and progression of skills – are we ensuring there is working memory for the long term memory (building on INSET training)?
• Continuous CPD for staff – providing personalised support for all staff
• A school who explores research and case studies to improve curriculum and build depth – are there possibilities to become part of a or part of an Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF) study?
• A school who invests time into building teachers of the future (Apprentices/ ECT)
• Strong behaviour and attitudes amongst children – modelled and consistently embedded by adults
• Challenge and support for all children and staff
• Known staff resilience/wellbeing and built into the core ethos and culture of the school, and known amongst the wider community – factors that support the journey and may possibly change it
• A strong sense of shared practice – Taking aspects learnt from the pandemic and lockdown.

Read The Forum School full 5 Year Curriculum Vision Strategic Plan here