Intention

• Provide students with a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes personal development and meets individual needs while supporting equal value and opportunities.
• Foster self-confidence and respect for diverse perspectives within the community.
• Emphasise a structured and coherent wider curriculum to develop student potential and uphold high aspirations.
• Deliver high-quality education that promotes respect, responsibility, and excellence, and offers a wide range of progression routes through a comprehensive Careers Education and Information Advice and Guidance programme.
• Enhance cultural capital through diverse experiences, teach British Values and democracy, and invest in powerful relationships and community engagement opportunities.

We want all Holyhead students to be able to:

• 💡 Solve problems
• 🌍 Apply knowledge to the real world
• 🌱 Adapt to change and be resilient to failure
• 🤔 Be aware of their own thought processes and memory
• 🗣️ Be articulate and express themselves
• 🧠 Think critically

Implementation

At Holyhead School, we deliver our curriculum through the Holyhead 8 Framework, a set of core principles and strategies that guide high-quality teaching across the school. This approach is grounded in cognitive science and shaped by educational research, helping us to create lessons that are both engaging and effective.
The framework ensures that all students (whether they need extra support or greater challenge) are taught in ways that help them learn deeply and remember more. By using consistent, evidence-informed practices, we aim to give every child the best chance to succeed and reach their full potential.

We want all students at Holyhead to be strong in relation to the following CORE character attributes:

• Confidence = A feeling of self-assurance arising from an appreciation of our own abilities or qualities
• Organisation = The quality of being more systematic and efficient
• Resilience = The ability to recover from, or adjust to misfortune or change
• Empathy = This allows us to have compassion for others, relate to those close to us and strangers,
  and see things from the perspective of others.