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As an all-through school, we stand out amongst primary and secondary schools in Bristol because our curriculum runs throughout the primary and secondary years, giving us longer to empower knowledge and confidence in our students. It also means that the specialist staff, equipment and facilities which wouldn’t normally be made available to primary aged children are there for them from day one.
We can assure any parent looking at secondary schools in Bristol for their child in Year 5, that the teaching and learning at Bridge Learning Campus are ‘Good’ (according to OFSTED in 2021). Coming to Bridge Learning Campus will give your child access to a broad range of new opportunities, 9 GCSEs, including a foreign language, fantastic sporting opportunities and countless enriching extra-curricular activities. When they leave us, they’ll be fully prepared to pursue further education or an apprenticeship at other colleges and secondary schools in Bristol.
As children begin their education journey with us at age four or younger, right through to 16, we’re in a unique position to use the latest pedagogical research to offer a tailored curriculum and the expertise of a wide range of education and other professionals.
We appreciate that the young people we work with come from a variety of different backgrounds and may have faced significant challenges throughout their lives. Our curriculum has been designed so that students have a holistic educational programme that focuses on the importance of developing a breadth and depth of knowledge whilst building oracy, literacy skills and cultural capital.
All students will:
– Have an experience tailored to their individual needs.
– Develop a set of core skills and dispositions that will allow them to apply themselves to challenges at any academic level.
– Confidently link ideas and concepts through our mastery curriculum – drawing on prior knowledge and utilising this, in addition to newly acquired information, to apply their understanding to new situations across a wide variety of subjects.
– Be able to study independently, using both class and homework effectively to aid the retrieval and use of information across a broad range of curriculum strands.
– Be able to express their ideas and opinions confidently and articulately, to a wide variety of audiences.
– Be equipped with excellent cultural capital, ensuring that they are able to be socially mobile and putting them on par with people from all academic backgrounds.
Every subject area has identified the unique gifts that they can give to our students, and these have been woven throughout the curriculum as the key skills and dispositions that every subject teaches our children and young people. These core skills and dispositions are interlinked with the knowledge and understanding children will be covering as they work through the carefully designed mastery curriculum. From becoming a passionate reader in English, through analytical thought in humanities, to problem solving in science and maths, significant importance has been placed on using knowledge and skills in the curriculum to make sour our students can adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world
Core Curriculum
Alongside the focus on key skills and dispositions, we cover the National Curriculum content using a mastery approach to learning. There is a clear emphasis on the crucial skills and knowledge relating to reading, writing and oracy as these aspects of the curriculum are vital. Students rely on these cornerstones of their education in a multitude of ways at all key stages.
Primary Curriculum
Our Early Years and Foundation Stage (EYFS) and primary students are taught using an innovative enquiry-based curriculum, called Curious City. This programme is based around big questions, which allow students to explore the interlinking areas of the curriculum, leading them on an exciting journey of discovery. This approach allows us to use a combination of experiential learning which anchors knowledge and skills, so that students have lots of opportunities to apply their understanding to different contexts and situations.
Secondary Curriculum
Our secondary curriculum covers a broad range of subjects, and we offer a wide range of academic and vocational qualifications, which have been selected to allow students to follow their own paths on leaving school. The majority of subjects follow a traditional three-year key stage three programme, which allows students to build a solid foundation for further study in the later key stages.
The only exceptions are English, maths and science, which follow a five-year curriculum and do not require options choices. When students are required to choose their option courses in year nine, we offer a tailored consultation programme, to quality assure this process and enable students to make the best choices for their future.
We continually review the courses on offer, to provide the very best experience for the students.
