Curriculum
The best for everyone, the best from everyone
Mission
At South Shore Academy we believe that all students should learn to be the best version of themselves, so that they leave school after five years as happy, caring and knowledgeable young people ready to contribute as global citizens. This is a school designed to support develop it’s local community and driven by our three values of respect, ambition and resilience.
Overarching principles
Education is the entitlement to powerful knowledge that takes students beyond their experiences. The curriculum at South Shore Academy is designed to enable students to acquire knowledge, understanding, skills and behaviours that take them beyond their context. This is knowledge that our students may not have had access to before.
Social and cultural mobility are the keys to securing high quality, lifelong, positive academic outcomes for our students and allow them to be the best versions of themselves.
Our non-academic curriculum teaches students how to behave, present themselves and represent their community.
Running throughout this is a relentless desire to support the wellbeing of our students. We believe in challenge with compassion: every student will be given the opportunity to achieve academic success in a supportive and creative environment.
Enrichment
Equally important to our taught curriculum is the portfolio of experiences to enable personal and social development, develop citizenship and community work and present challenge.
These include, work experience at Key Stage 4, trips, a wide range of well attended extra-curricular clubs, including D of E, fundraising events, supporting others, mentoring and representing the school across a range of activities. All have the aim of helping our student to develop their identity, so they are ready and equipped to fully engage with life beyond school.