New Curriculum Vision
All young people will follow a broad and balanced curriculum, which will prepare them for the four purposes of the 2022 Welsh Curriculum. New Horizons aim to support our children and young people to be:
- Ambitious, capable learners, ready to learn throughout their lives.
- Enterprising, creative contributors, ready to play a full part in life and work.
- Ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world.
- Healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.
Many of our children and young people attending New Horizons have missed significant aspects of learning and have a broad range of special educational needs that all act as barriers to learning. Discrete lessons and intervention programmes are delivered that focus on pupil progression with the cross-curricular skills of literacy and numeracy. Key skills relating to literacy and numeracy are mapped across each topic on a half-termly basis.
2020 – 2021 Literacy framework skills:
- Autumn term
- Spring term
- Summer term
2020 – 2021 Numeracy framework skills:
- Autumn term
- Spring term
- Summer term
Statutory learning in relation to the cross-curricular skills, Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) and the Health and Well-being Area of Learning and Experience will form the core basis of our curriculum. Regard will be made to all other areas of learning and experience that are appropriate to the needs of individual children and young people.
We provide all children with Individual Education Plans; supported through baseline assessments, that develop pupil progression relating to their individual special educational needs. Pupil Centred Plans are integral to this process and ‘Pupil Passports’ ensure these are ‘live’ and referenced both on site and in off-site learning environments.
At New Horizons we have invested in resources and are working towards embedding a cross curricular digital competence within our young people that will facilitate them to develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes that enable the confident, creative and critical use of technologies and systems to be successful in today’s society.
The service aims to support transition appropriate to each individual child, whether it is to a mainstream school, special school setting or key stage 4 leaner pathway with New Horizons.