Our curriculum vision
Colton Hills Community School is an inner-city school with a diverse cohort that draws from a wide range of cultures, nationalities and identities. Our curriculum seeks to address the disadvantage that may exist within these different communities by giving our students access to everything that the world can offer.
Our school proudly holds the status of a School of Sanctuary, where students from across the local area – and across the globe, too – can come together to learn harmoniously regardless of their background.
Therefore, the intention of our curriculum is that we will offer our students the access to a broad and varied curriculum that seeks to equip them for modern life. We have designed our curriculum to ensure that students have every opportunity to gain worthwhile employment, attend a top university and have access to the social mobility that can change lives for themselves and their families.
One of the most pivotal aspects is making our students highly literate and numerate, ensuring that they have the fundamental skills necessary to take their place in society. Our skill makes literacy a central aspect of life at Colton Hills and addressing deficiencies in reading – whether due to prior achievement or being new to the language – is something that we attack with all of our energies.
We are aiming for world-class education. We, therefore, intend our curriculum to be knowledge-rich, deep in its explorations of topics, challenging, and with a distinctive, outward-looking, international feel. We want our students to make sure that our students encounter the best of what has been said and written throughout human history, and the chance to read these words is something that we hold dear in our curriculum.
We recognised the importance of grounding our curriculum in its wider contexts to enable us to fill gaps in our students’ knowledge. We are unapologetic in ensuring that our students have every opportunity to engage with as much powerful knowledge as anyone else in the country.
With these school contexts in mind, at Colton Hills we have built our curriculum around a series of thematically based Curricular Concepts that students will see in various subjects, enabling them to draw links and supporting them in making connections that might not always be apparent to them.
The intention of our curriculum at all stages is that we will teach all children at our school that:
Social Justice
Humanity is on an optimistic, positive journey of developing tolerance, enfranchisement and rights for all peoples, and we must all play our part in this.
Extra curricular
At Colton Hills Community School we consist of far more than the lessons students enjoy every day. Clubs and activities make up the extra-curricular programme that plays a very important part in the extra-curricular programme that plays a very important part in the education of young people. Students have access to a wide range of provision which includes subject clubs, debating societies, martial arts and sports activities including competitive matches. We encourage as many students as possible to take part in the programme and to share in the success that these activities provide.
In addition to this, teachers from every subject plan numerous visits to places that will enrich and consolidate valuable learning. Not only do you our students enjoy these experiences, it also shows in their academic achievement.
Inter house activities
Colton Hills offer a range of Inter house competitions which are a fantastic opportunity for students to get involved and compete in a range of activities no matter what their ability. Our aim is for all students to compete in as many competitions as possible to represent their house!
The activities range across all subject areas giving everyone the chance to get involved. Every student that partakes will gain achievement points and are also able to add to their participation tracker! Following this, colours award badges
can be earn which are given out each half term in reward assemblies in recognition of our student's achievements. An individual needs to participate in three events to earn a star badge. Three star badges will earn a bronze cup badge, before then earning their way up to silver and then the ultimate gold cup status! Students can carry these badges throughout their school career, with the aim of taking part in as many clubs and events as possible! Students who have obtained colours awards will stand out when applying to colleges and sixth forms as it evidences their hard work and dedication.
Currie, Kahlo, Tull and Turing houses compete in a wide range of tiered competitions which involve the core values of our house system in Bronze, Silver and Gold challenges. Bronze include weekly numeracy and WOTW tasks along with subject based inter house competitions. Silver include attendance, punctuality, achievement points & behaviour points whilst gold include sports day and enterprise.
Your encouragement and support is incredibly important and could help your child's house claim the Inter House Cup this year!