Learning Route 1: Engagement

This route is designed for learners who are not yet ready to fully access a traditional academic curriculum. It offers a practical, hands-on approach, with functional skills embedded throughout. Learning is delivered through real-life contexts, vocational activities, and experiential opportunities to promote engagement and independence. The focus is on building motivation, resilience, and the skills needed to move towards more formal learning.

Learning Route 2: Nurture

This route supports learners with complex needs, including those in Acorn House and Nurture provision. The focus is on emotional regulation, communication, and social development, alongside building trust and a sense of safety within the learning environment. Highly personalised approaches, consistent routines, and therapeutic support underpin all experiences. The aim is to develop confidence, resilience, and the core skills needed for students to begin engaging more consistently with learning.

Learning Route 3: Achieve

This route supports learners who are ready to engage with a more academic curriculum, while still benefiting from practical and applied learning. Students develop subject knowledge alongside transferable skills, preparing them for qualifications, further education, or employment. Opportunities for hands-on learning remain an important feature to ensure engagement and relevance.

Overall, these “Learning Routes” provide a flexible, inclusive framework that supports each learner’s academic, social, and emotional development, enabling progression at an appropriate pace while maintaining high expectations and aspiration.

Personalised Learning Routes

Route	Opportunities
Engagement	Our curriculum promotes learning through experience, combining practical, hands-on opportunities with vocational and real-life skills to build independence, confidence and readiness for the future.
Nurture	Our curriculum supports emotional regulation, communication and social development through therapeutic approaches that build confidence, trust and readiness to engage with others and the wider world.
Achieve	Our curriculum combines academic achievement with real-world learning, enabling learners to gain qualifications, apply their knowledge in practical contexts, and develop the skills needed for college, training and employment

Trinity Academy New Bridge Universal Offer

At Trinity Academy New Bridge, we provide a structured and personalised curriculum that develops the knowledge, skills and confidence learners need for education, employment and adult life. Through academic learning, explicit teaching of wellbeing and social skills, and practical, engaging experiences, we help learners overcome barriers, achieve success, and develop the independence needed to thrive in the wider world.

Curriculum Structure

• Learners access 24 lessons per week across KS3 and KS4 with 1 additional enrichment session on Friday afternoons for  all learners
• All lessons are 50 minutes to support engagement and routine
• Learners finish 30 minutes early on a Wednesday to support their well-being.

The curriculum ensures a balanced offer across all 3 strands, enabling learners to access learning, sustain engagement and prepare for their next stage.

Key Stage 3 Curriculum (Years 7–9 – 24 lessons per week + 1 Enrichment session)

At KS3, the curriculum provides breadth and balance, developing foundational knowledge while supporting pupils’ SEMH needs.

Additional KS3 Provision

• Forest School (group provision each term)
• Farm
• Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation
• Bespoke Pastoral support
• Personalised timetables
• Tutor reading
• TLSP academic and emotional intervention
• Careers and IAG

 Key Stage 4 Curriculum (Years 10–11 – 24 lesson per week + 1 Enrichment session)

At KS4, the curriculum is increasingly personalised, enabling pupils to access appropriate academic and vocational pathways.

Qualifications and Pathways

The curriculum supports a range of pathways to ensure all pupils are prepared for their next stage:

Academic Pathways

• GCSE English
• GCSE Maths
• GCSE Science
• Functional Skills
• Digital Functional Skills

Vocational and Alternative Pathways

• PE
• Duke of Edinburgh Award
• Art GCSE
• Food / Home Cooking BTEC Level 1 and 2
• Health and Social Care
• Careers and IAG

Enrichment and Cultural Capital

The curriculum is enhanced through planned opportunities beyond the classroom:

Enrichment Days (examples)

• Health and wellbeing
• Relationships and RSE
• Cultural awareness
• Careers and next steps
• National Numeracy Day
• Anti-Bullying Week
• World Book Day

Cultural Capital Opportunities

• Educational visits
• Local and national experiences

 Measuring the Curriculum’s Success (Impact)  

As Trinity Academy New Bridge’s curriculum is designed to achieve a range of academic, personal and aspirational outcomes, its impact is evaluated through multiple measures. Learner progress and knowledge acquisition are assessed through a range of assessments, qualifications and curriculum outcomes. The effectiveness of preparation for the next stage of education, training or employment is measured through destination data and learner progression routes. Engagement with learning is evaluated through learner and parent voice, alongside attendance and behaviour data. The quality of education is evidenced through lesson observations, learning walks, work scrutiny and wider quality assurance activities, demonstrating the consistency of effective teaching and learning. Personal development is assessed through progress towards individual EHCP outcomes and personalised targets, ensuring that learners develop the skills, confidence and independence needed to thrive both in school and beyond.