The Co-op Belle Vue English curriculum aims to be a curriculum that explores and utilises the best of what is already known to our students, but also takes them beyond their lived experience; a curriculum that gives all pupils the chance to read, understand and question great literary texts in their diverse forms; a curriculum that gives them the linguistic and expressive tools to read, question and respond to the world around them. Our curriculum covers the National Curriculum in full. 

The English curriculum at Co-op Academy Belle Vue aims to:

• Offer a broad, knowledge-rich, and intellectually challenging curriculum that gives students a solid grounding in the debates surrounding the ‘best of what has been thought and said’ (Gove, from Arnold, 1869) but also gives them the texts, tools and skills to identify, question and challenge the gaps in the canons. 

• Teach texts which are diverse, inclusive and anti-racist alongside the more traditional canonical texts to provide our students with a broad experience of English

• Teach students the substantive and conceptual knowledge required to understand the literary periods that they study. By doing this, we create confident and knowledgeable students, regardless of their starting points 

• To ensure knowledge is sequenced by our subject experts to ensure the substantive and conceptual knowledge they acquire is returned to and built upon to form strong foundations for their future learning 

• To ensure the most important concepts, vocabulary and substantive knowledge are interleaved throughout the curriculum so that students develop strong, long term memories of our ambitious and intellectually challenging curriculum, preparing them for their next steps.