Curriculum
Bassingbourn Village College is committed to ensuring our students unlock their full potential and achieve high academic grades. Our personalised curriculum offers breadth and depth, with our teachers proving an environment where students can develop a love of learning and to have high aspirations.
Our curriculum aims to:
- Provide all students with the opportunity to fulfil their academic potential
- Encourage the pursuit of excellence and to take pride in their performance
- Foster a love of learning and develop intellectual curiosity and confidence as preparation for lifelong academic development
- Enable students to understand the science of how they learn (metacognition), as well instil the importance of what they are leaning
- Support students to achieve the best possible qualifications and skills for entry to higher education or the workplace
- Cater for the individual through personalised curriculum
- Offer sufficient flexibility for extra support or stretch where needed, while ensuring equal access and opportunity for all
- Equip students with effective life and learning skills for success in the modern world– literacy, reading, oracy, debating, numeracy, and coding.
- Develop an understanding of the world of work and the careers available to them
- Prepare students to be global citizens and to respect others and the environment around them
- Develop healthy, happy, young people who know how to keep themselves and others safe through our Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural (SMSC) and PSHE provision