Curriculum Overview

 Connex Curriculum Model

At Connex we believe that every learner possesses the potential to excel. It is our responsibility to identify and nurture each young person’s strengths. empowering them to achieve more than they ever imagined.

Many young people and children enter Connex already disconnected from learning, often questioning the value of education. Our mission is to reverse this trend by eliminating barriers and providing every learner with the support, skills and experiences needed to succeed and reach their full potential.  Our curriculum takes into account the knowledge the learners already have and builds upon this, ensuring that they know more, remember more and understand more.

The Connex curriculum follows the UK Early Years Foundation Stage, Primary and Secondary National Curriculums, although content is adapted to meet our learner’s needs and difficulties.  Stripping the curriculum down to the key knowledge that we believe each learner should access enables them to achieve good educational attainment on par with their mainstream peers.  It is our belief that all learners must receive a good education, regardless of their circumstances or the settings in which they find themselves.

Our curriculum is split into four strands:

• Core
• Knowledge and Understanding of the World
• Life Skills and Independence
• Communication

All learners work on the Core curriculum.  Learners access the other curriculum offers based upon their placement targets and EHCP outcomes – this is discussed and agreed at the start of each placement and regularly reviewed to ensure that it is still relevant for the learner.