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Chase Learning

Chase Learning is a competence based curriculum designed to provide our students with a programme of study that allows them to take control of their learning by selecting the tasks they complete, choosing the people they work with and taking responsibility for their own learning success.

Chase Learning is delivered 8 times a week in year 7 through the subject areas of Geography, History, ICT, RE, English and Science with each subject contributing specialist tasks to a central theme or topic. During the year students study five topics:

  • My Town
  • Britain and Me
  • Go Global
  • CSI
  • Sporting Life

Each theme provides students with a menu of tasks that allow them to choose who they work with, how they work, what types of task they focus on and what type of learning style to use.

In addition to the work completed in Chase Learning, students also participate in a 15 week course in Learn to Learn delivered during the autumn term through Citizenship lessons. In these lessons students learn about how their brain works, about how to work in a group, they identify where their learning strengths and weaknesses are and how to self and peer assess.

The aim of both the Learn to Learn programme and Chase Learning is to allow students to become more confident, independent learners. More importantly they are given the opportunity to achieve through experiential learning – learning by doing, giving them the chance to try new ideas, to succeed and to fail and to feel secure and confident in developing these new skills.

Students' progress and achievement is measured against criteria of skills and competences rather than a progression toward a certain level or grade. Students are encouraged to reflect on their progress throughout the topic.