What is Our Vision?

• Every child is uniquely important and of equal worth.
• Every child has the right to a world-class education.
• Through education, every child should be able to achieve their potential and ultimately improve their lives and the lives of those around them.

How is our Curriculum Sequenced and Remembered?

Our curriculum and lessons at John Ferneley are designed to be broad, balanced and challenging for all our students, following the statutory guidance of the National Curriculum for England and Wales. Every subject area has a clear subject intent, which you can find on the individual subject pages in this section, along with details about yearly content coverage for each subject area, referred to as the ‘Year on a Page.’

The curriculum is designed to be knowledge-enabling; allowing students to develop, retain and demonstrate through taught skills the content they have encountered and remembered. All subject areas have a clear five-year plan for how they develop students within their subject area with the ultimate goal of helping them to achieve the best possible outcome at the end of year 11.

Individual lessons follow the system we refer to as the ‘JFC Way,’ a clear structure for lessons based on well-known and well-respected pedagogical research. We utilise Rosenshine’s ‘Principles of Instruction’ to help us to shape and structure the stages and parts of each lesson. Ultimately, learning may be defined as, ‘a change in long-term memory’ (Kirschner, Sweller and Clark, 2006) and this underpins all classroom activity, including high-quality teaching and instruction, the opportunity for students to engage in guided and independent practice and clear processes for feedback.