Curriculum Maps
At Lee Mount Academy, our curriculum is designed to ignite a lifelong passion for learning, nurture inquisitive minds and promote the holistic development of every child. We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum which recognises the importance of communication, language and reading to successfully access the rest of the curriculum. Rooted in our core values of the ‘4Rs’ (Respect, Resilience, Responsibility and Reflection), our curriculum drivers (CANDO) aims to instill:
- Confident Learning Behaviours: Our curriculum aims to provide our children with a wide range of skills necessary to succeed in modern Britain. We focus not only on academic outcomes but also on fostering critical thinking, creativity, resilience and effective communication.
- ​Aspirations: We prioritise the well-being of our students, nurturing their social, emotional, and mental health. Our curriculum encourages self-reflection, empathy, and a strong sense of self-worth, enabling children to flourish as confident and compassionate individuals.
- Nurture: We hope to empower our pupils to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens. By nurturing their curiosity and resilience, we aim to instil a passion for discovery that extends far beyond their time at Lee Mount.
- Develop Knowledge & Skills: We believe in a coherent curriculum, which connects prior learning, linking learning to real-life experiences and the wider community. Our curriculum aims to encourage collaboration, and community engagement and foster a deeper understanding of the world. Our curriculum places a strong emphasis on celebrating differences. We encourage understanding, appreciate diversity and promote an atmosphere where every perspective is heard and respected.
- Opportunities: Our goal is to establish a meaningful learning environment where children are eager to investigate, inquire and learn. By offering a bespoke personal development programme, we hope to foster a true passion for learning which goes beyond the classroom.
For further information on our curriculum, please contact us.
Geography
Our geography curriculum aims to provide our children with quality first hand experiences whenever possible, creating excitement and wonder through studying the world beyond the classroom. Initially, our focus is on their immediate environment and the local landscape including hills, moors, crags and rivers. During our residentials, children are able to explore the wider environment, in a contrasting locality, to provide them with an opportunity to compare and contrast their understanding of geographical areas, both urban and rural. Through our carefully tailored curriculum, children will develop into explorers. We aim to enthuse children about the possibilities that their world has in store for them to explore. Our children will leave school with a sense of their place in the world, both culturally and physically, and a desire to enquire into the world around them.
History
Our history curriculum aims to provide our children with a sense of time through an understanding of people, places and objects. The children will learn about the experiences of others and of significant events from the past through quality first hand experiences, artefacts, historical texts and other primary and secondary sources. Our children will practise the Lee Mount building blocks of teamwork, relationships and confidence in order to gain a broad and balanced understanding of their local, national and world history. Our children will leave school with a chronological awareness of historical periods, an understanding of people and their impact on the world as we know it today.
Music
We have specialist from Calderdale Music Trust who teach our music lessons and music assemblies once a week. At Lee Mount, we recognise the vital role of music in allowing curiosity, creativity and self –expression to develop alongside resilience, confidence and critical thinking skills.
Computing
Through our computing curriculum we aim to give our pupils the life-skills that will enable them to embrace and utilise new technology in a responsible and safe way to ensure that pupils become digitally literate and digitally resilient. At Lee Mount Academy the safety of our pupils is paramount. We take online safety very seriously and we aim to give children the necessary skills to keep themselves safe online. Children have a right to enjoy childhood online, to access safe online spaces and to benefit from all the opportunities that a connected world can bring them, appropriate to their age and stage. As a school we have Smoothwall Filter that protects students with real-time filtering and blocks harmful content without restricting their freedom to explore and learn. Smoothwall Monitor works in real-time to alert safeguarding teams to risks as they happen.
Art / Design Technology
At Lee Mount Academy our Art curriculum has been designed to expose children to a rich and varied diet of creativity and Art history. We believe that high-quality Art lessons will inspire children to think innovatively and develop creative understanding. The Art curriculum provides children with opportunities to develop their skills using a range of media and materials. Children learn the skills of drawing, painting, printing, collage, textiles and 3D work.
Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils will have the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making.
PSHE
Our responsive PSHE programme is at the centre of the school curriculum, providing opportunities to teach concepts, knowledge, language, strategies and skills that enrich the wider curriculum. Here at Lee Mount Academy, we are preparing our pupils to be able to flourish and thrive with the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life in modern day Britain. We use the SCARF programme from CORAM life education. Our adaptive and inclusive curriculum meets the needs of all our pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) by adapting teaching and learning to suit all children and all abilities. We ensure that our curriculum fosters gender equality and LGBT+ equality by ensuring the quality of an inclusive and diverse curriculum. External visitors are used within our PSHE programme. They are carefully selected and enrich learning, provide expert input and act as role models throughout our PSHE provision.Â
RE
The Lee Mount Academy R.E curriculum recognises the importance of developing our pupil’s as individuals so they can grow up to be responsible citizens. It develops our values, behaviours, knowledge and understanding of religions and beliefs. The Lee Mount Academy RE curriculum is based on the Local Agreed Syllabus for Calderdale, Kirklees and Leeds produced by SACRE for teaching from September 2024.Â
Physical Education
Lee Mount aims to inspire all children to develop a love of physical activity and sport. Through quality physical education, whole school values and a whole child approach, we aim to nurture confident, resilient children who will strive for their personal best. We listen to our children’s wants and needs and provide them with a broad range of active experiences and clubs. We want to aid our children in obtaining the values and skills to celebrate and respect the success of others, as well as celebrating their own successes.
Spanish (MFL)
At Lee Mount, we start to teach Spanish as our modern foreign language in KS2. After speaking to our local secondary schools, we have chosen to deliver Spanish as this was the most common Key Stage 3 language. Children are taught a language to foster their curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world and other cultures. We equip children with knowledge to further learning in KS3 and beyond which will broaden their ability to study and work in other countries.
