King James's School
Ambition and Faculties
Faculties will support the Ambition Curriculum in four different ways:
- Audit of subject provision
- Extra-curricular opportunities and extended curriculum
- Competitions and challenges
- Our House system
- Audit of subject provision
Each subject area will complete an audit identifying where they deliver the Ambition agenda within the 5 ACE themes in class work and homework, for example:
| AMBITION: Greatness / Aspiration / Innovation | In History, students learn about Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists and how they fought against inequality and segregation. |
| CHARACTER: Resilience / Determination | In gymnastics in PE, students are encouraged to learn new skills and practice them even when it is challenging. |
| CHARACTER: Inclusion / Tolerance | In RE, students will learn about the different faiths and beliefs that people have in the UK. |
| CHARACTER: Kindness / Compassion / Nurture | Language Leaders will support students who attend the weekly Blooket Club to help them to improve their understanding and skills using language. |
| EXCELLENCE | In all subject areas: rewarding student work and celebrating student achievements regularly. |
- Extra-curricular opportunities and extended curriculum
Faculty clubs, groups, activities, visits and visitors are central to enrichment and provision outside the classroom and staff are encouraged to source different experiences for students. The aim is to help improve the life chances of children and young people from all backgrounds, including disadvantaged backgrounds by providing additional opportunities that they wouldn’t normally have.
This includes:
- Lunchtime or after school groups
- Homework clubs
- Visitors speaking to groups of students
- Visits to places of interest
- Competitions and challenges
All subjects and faculties will identify at least one competition or challenge for students to take part in every academic year, for example, in 2023 – 2024, the following competitions will run in the first half term. They may be aimed at different students and year groups:
|
W/B |
WEEK |
Department / subject |
Ambition Curriculum competitions |
|
4-Sep-23 |
1 |
Performance Geography |
Launch Performance extra-curricular cards (All years) What is Geography? poster |
|
11-Sep-23 |
2 |
English |
Launch 'The Solstice Prize 2023' A nature themed creative writing competition for all years. |
|
18-Sep-23 |
1 |
Maths |
National Coding Week |
|
25-Sep-23 |
2 |
Languages |
European day of Languages - MFL |
|
16-Oct-23 |
1 |
Maths |
TTRS Year 7 Battle of the forms |
|
23-Oct-23 |
2 |
History |
Black History around school Famous face 'treasure' hunt |
- Our House system
Our Performance Faculty currently supports and promotes our traditional House system based on the four Houses of Dartmouth, Fenay, Jessop and Siddon. They do this through inter-house sporting competitions.
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