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.
Parent Pay
As of January 2021 we no longer accept cash in school and are now accepting payments online for items such as dinner money and school trips. Using a secure website called ParentPay you will be able to pay online using your credit / debit card or continue to make cash payments at PayPoint stores. ParentPay will be our preferred method of making payments to school.
What are the benefits to our school?
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You can help us reduce workloads for all staff as no more counting cash, chasing debt and stop cash collection services
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Creates more time to lend to educational support and the smooth running of the school
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Improves school security
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Using ParentPay also ensures that all financial transactions are safe and secure - helping us to remove costs associated with us having to manage cash securely on the school premises
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The more parents that use ParentPay, the greater the benefit is to our school.
What are the benefits to parents & pupils?
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ParentPay is easy-to-use and will offer you the freedom to make online payments whenever and wherever you like, 24/7
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The technology used is of the highest internet security available ensuring that your money will reach school safely – offering you peace of mind
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Payments can be made by credit/debit card or also through PayPoint
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Full payment histories, balance alerts and statements are available to you securely online at anytime
How to get started with ParentPay?
We will send you your account activation details. Once you receive these:
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Enter your Activation username and password in the Account Login section of the homepage NB. These are for one-time use only, please choose your own username and password for future access during the activation process
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Provide all the necessary information and choose your new username and password for your account - registering your email address will enable us to send you receipts and reminders
If you have any questions, please contact 01902 558420. For more information, visit www.parentpay.com/parents/
