Through the My World curriculum we ensure all Year 7 students have access to a rigorous and challenging curriculum that builds upon their prior knowledge to provide them with best possible start both academically and socially whilst instilling our culture of excellence.

AIMS OF THE CURRICULUM AREA

• Personal Best - High aspirations for all. Re-drafting is considered paramount in aiding students understanding they can achieve improved outcomes through hard work and effort.

• Leadership - Foster and embed the development of positive learning behaviours across the curriculum, to enable each student to confidently lead and engage in exhibitions of excellence.

• Learning - Provide all students with ambitious, rigorous project themes that nurture academic excellence, independence and confidence whilst providing a diverse range of learning opportunities.

• Opportunity - Enrich and stretch students within a broad curriculum whilst fostering a joy of discovery, creativity, independence and personal decision-making.

• Community - Enable students to feel a strong sense of belonging through positive relationships with staff and peers and use the curriculum to increase awareness and engagement in local, national and international community issues.

Year 7 spend 6 hours a week in My World taught by a single teacher in their own classroom to build strong relationships with fewer teachers, facilitate the time necessary for students to produce work to an excellent standard and reduce their timetable down to 10 subjects to make it more manageable. ‘My World’ is formed from a contextual backdrop of the Humanities, PDE and ICT that Jack Hunt Academy have now been delivering for 5 years. The curriculum is characterised by thematic learning through carefully crafted projects working towards a high quality final piece of work that is exhibited to parents and our local community. The curriculum is underpinned by literacy development through explicit teaching of key vocabulary, weekly guided reading and the construction of at least one high quality sentence every lesson. There is a strong emphasis on editing and re-drafting work to familiarise students with this process and to ensure that their final project outcomes are to exhibition standard.

RESOURCES

Every scheme and lesson has been designed by the Jack Hunt My World staff team, with the support of subject departments, to ensure they best suit the needs of our students and our desired outcomes. Bespoke resource booklets, that feature maps, timelines, lesson slides and key vocabulary, are distributed to every child every lesson so they can work at their own pace when appropriate and refer back to previous content and lessons. The books also feature an ‘out of classroom’ workbook that is utilised when a child is on school site but for safety or well-being reasons, isn’t in the classroom

We begin the year with a 4 week introduction block which includes, both library and ICT inductions as well as baseline testing, an indepth introduction to Jack Hunt’s expected learning behaviours and the My World culture of excellence through a weekly Year 7 assembly. We then study the following:

• Remembrance – why do we remember World War 1?

• Peterborough through time – how did Peterborough become the city it is today and what will it be like in the future?

• Sustainability – why is sustainability so difficult?

• Medieval Powers – who was the most influencial Medieval global power?

• Being a Jack Hunter – this is a student led project with students selecting their own focus. Project overviews, that break down the core content lesson by lesson, are available for parents to access via the school website and enable staff, students and our wider school community to have a thorough understanding of what we are studying in My World and when.

Students spend between 5-9 weeks on our meticulously planned schemes of learning to develop their understanding of a number of core skills and concepts that we have worked with subject Curriculum Area Leaders to establish, to ensure they will build upon these in Year 8 and beyond. Statutory Personal Development content is delivered in a consolidated one week block during the academic year.

AFTER YEAR 7

Students start studying subjects discretely from Year 8 building upon the key concepts that have been covered within Year 7. Students also have the opportunity to join the My World Ambassador team who act as advocates for our unique curriclum offer,