Curriculum

Dixons City Academy is committed to providing a curriculum that will prepare students for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life and meet the aims of the academy value statement.

The aims of our curriculum are to:

• maximise student progress in all areas, regardless of ability, disability, gender or race
• foster successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
• encourage confidence in our students so that they are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
• ensure that our students become responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society
• ensure that students develop the essential skills for learning, life and employment by incorporating personal, learning and thinking and functional skills into their curriculum offer
• encourage students to develop the skills needed for employment by including opportunities for business challenges and applied learning in real contexts
• ensure students have high aspirations and self-esteem and accept responsibility for their learning
• offer students the opportunity for moral and spiritual reflection in order to promote positive emotional health and confidence.

We do this by offering a curriculum that is personalised, which is broad, balanced and coherent.

Please note that parents have a right to withdraw their child from part or all of Religious Education (RE) and part of or all of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE/RSHE), please contact the academy via email should you wish to discuss this or if you wish to find out more information about the curriculum for any of our subjects.

If parents would like to find out more or discuss our curriculum offer in more detail, please contact your child's Head of Year in the first instance.

Alternatively, you can contact Jo Orton, Senior Vice Principal at: jorton@dixonsca.com