Phase 2 Curriculum

Art

Mathematics

Our curriculum will encourage students to be efficient, resilient problems solvers, able to apply their mathematical skills to any real life context they encounter after leaving the academy. Through learning mathematics, our students will develop the logical thinking skills to break problems in a wide range of contexts into manageable steps. Students will embrace the interconnected nature of the concepts within mathematics and how mathematics can be applied to contexts within everyday life, academia and careers. Their mathematical skills and knowledge will open doors for our students to select whichever future path they choose.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Business, Economics and Finance

Business and Enterprise is an aspiring, rigorous and project based subject. The course is designed for students, to achieve an introduction to business and enterprise, whereby, it includes a vocational and a project-based element. In addition, the course empower students with skills, knowledge and understanding of the applied study of good business and enterprise practices and an understanding of working in the sector.

In addition, the Business and Enterprise activity affects the daily lives of all people, as they work, spend, save, invest and travel. The course therefore, also prepare the students to engage in business activity with confidence and competence, thus understanding how Business and Enterprise function and the role it plays in society. Through the evaluation of the past and present NCFE Business and enterprise, the students will develop specific skill such communication, interpersonal skills, marketing, mathematical and problem solving skills. NCFE Business and Enterprise makes an essential contribution, to the understanding of the world of work and encourages students to think about how and why people start in business.

Computing

Our intention is to equip students to develop their computational thinking skills and creativity to solve a variety of problems. To build an understanding of the workings of digital systems and the importance of online safety and its impact. Our teaching of both Computing and ICT will provide students with the future-proof skills and knowledge of using and creating digital technologies that will prepare and enable them to fully participate in a technology-driven world.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Dance

At Oasis Academy Hadley, we are offering a board range of different styles in Dance including Contemporary, Jazz, Street and many more. We focus on confidence and how to express yourself through movement. We help to seek progress through a range of dynamics and creativity, Dance offers a history insight to famous practitioners who have made Dance what it is today. Engaging in the theory elements of dance, looking at how dance has evolved over the years and how we can create chorography through a stimulus.

Year 10

Year 11

Design and Technology

Purpose of study Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, students design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. Students learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world. High-quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of the nation.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11

Drama

At Oasis Academy Enfield and Hadley the Drama curriculum is designed to allow students to gain a detailed knowledge of Drama and Theatre. We believe that students deserve a broad and ambitious Drama curriculum, rich in skills and knowledge, as well as developing links between Drama and other subjects, including English, Citizenship and History. They will also learn about different aspects of Drama and Theatre with units based around plays, current affair, and theatrical techniques. The curriculum will encourage students to become creative, imaginative, confident and independent thinkers, who will be able to create original work as well as critically analysing professional and non-professional plays and performances. Students will have an appreciation of their own work and that of others, always demonstrating respect and empathy. It also aims to foster a love of Performing Arts as a whole, whilst also using Drama as a tool to enable students to develop key skills that will prepare them for their future.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11

English

Our intent is to deliver the reading and phonetic specific content of the English programmes set out in the National Curriculum so that our students become confident, critical readers and thinkers who engage deeply with a wide range of texts and have a lifelong love of reading. We seek to produce and encourage engagement with the mastery of English Language and Literature to create highly articulate, committed and influential members of society. All students should become literate critical thinkers in society with literacy skills to allow them success in higher education.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Geography

Our intent is to equip students with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As students progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, the formation and use of landscapes and environments, and an awareness of the world around us and the idea of sustainability We aim for our students to become global citizens and show a keen awareness of the geography around them.

Year 8	Year 9	Year 10
Year 11	Year 12

Health and Social Care

Studying Health and Social Care teaches our students about providing physical, emotional and social support to help people live their lives. In this subject students will be academically challenged through the broadness of the curriculum and the wide range of real life scenarios that they will face which prepares students for their life beyond school.

Year 12

Year 13

History

Our curriculum is designed to ensure History sparks every student’s imagination about the past. Our subject inspires them to be curious about the events, beliefs and individuals that have shaped our present and future and to judge their significance. Students will be encouraged to explore a knowledge-rich curriculum, embedded with sources and interpretations. This will help them become analytical thinkers who have the confidence to question the world around them and to evaluate the extent of change/continuity and similarity/difference throughout history, while building a clear historical narrative of the past. Where possible, a diverse and local History will help them understand their own community. Their History vocabulary will be rich, allowing them to make sense of what they hear, read and encounter in the world. As a result they can stand in any circle or career with confidence.

Year 8	Year 9	Year 10
Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Media

The media curriculum upskills students in critical and analytical skills to improve their digital and media literacy. Students become proficient in technical, design and process skills and can project manage a media product throughout the cycle of production. Students develop their cultural capital through exposure to a broad range of media and explore their own creative skills. Students become more informed, critical and shrewd consumers and producers of 21^st century media.

Year 10	Year 11	Year 12
Year 13

Modern Foreign Languages

French

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Spanish

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Turkish

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Music

Our intent is to deliver the Music Curriculum to all students to develop their performing, composing and appraisal skills. We aim to help create well rounded students who thrive in creativity and develop self-confidence through expressing themselves in different forms of Music. We seek to produce and encourage engagement through practical studies of different areas, instruments and ensembles of Music whilst creating performances ready for public audiences. The overall aim – in addition to the knowledge students will gain – is to equip each and every student with skills that they can use in which ever career the choose to follow.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11

Philosophy and Ethics

To nurture active citizens and encourage students to become confident, conscientious participants in the community through Personal, Social Health education and to encourage students to engage with philosophical, moral, ethical and civil debates. We ensure our students get a programme of religious education that increases students’ mutual understanding and empathy and that values diversity and inclusion in our learning communities.

Year 8	Year 9	Year 10
Year 11

Physical Education

At Oasis Academy Hadley, we are offering a broad range of sporting experiences that provide opportunities to develop creativity, resilience and character. Our aim is to ensure that all students develop the fundamental skills that will enable them to enjoy active and healthy lifestyles. In addition, they will develop cultural capital and confidence to travel up the pathway of success towards the abundant job opportunities in the sporting sector.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11

Politics

Psychology

Our curriculum is designed to ensure students gain a deeper understanding of human behaviour and be able to apply their knowledge to real world settings with the use of psychological theory and research. The intent for the Psychology curriculum is to equip students with the necessary scientific knowledge, skills and vocabulary to develop a better understanding of themselves and the wider world. The Psychology curriculum will enable students to value the importance of psychological research and will promote an awe-driven curiosity of the human mind and body. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of viewpoints and different perspectives that have been taken to the study of human behaviour, each of which offers a unique approach. Our aim is for all students to analyse the relative contributions of competing theories in order to discuss their impact on our understanding of human behaviour and society as a whole.

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12 and 13

Science

As Science teachers, it is our intent is to provide a science curriculum, which will develop scientific knowledge, skills and conceptual understanding through the disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Our teaching of science must encourage students to be scientifically literate, think critically about the world, so that in their futures they will recognise the impact of science on their everyday lives.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Year 10	Year 11	Year 12 and 13

Sociology

Sociology students at Oasis Academy Hadley will develop a greater understanding and awareness of key social structures, processes and issues through the study of families, education, crime and deviance, mass media and social stratification.

By studying sociology, students will develop transferable skills including how to:

Investigate facts and make deductions
Develop opinions and new ideas on social issues
Analyse and better understand the social world

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12 and 13

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community