Teaching and learning is driven at The Brier School through an Ambitious, Inclusive and Meaningful curriculum (A.I.M. High). It has been designed with the aim of developing the knowledge, skills and abilities of pupils allowing increasing fluency and independent application of what they know and can do. The curriculum delivers a creative and practical approach to teaching and learning that challenges the more able further in their learning and appropriately supports children who find aspects of their learning more difficult. This enables success to be experienced by all. The Brier School uses Twinkl Phonics throughout the whole school as a DFE validated scheme.

In order to comply with our duties outlined by the Equality Act 2010 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 we aim to: 

• Ensure that the school’s curriculum is modified according to national requirements and is not detrimental to anyone regardless of race, gender, religion, disability, sexuality, gender realignment or beliefs.  
• Maintain accessibility to the curriculum for everyone 

In doing so, we keep each curriculum subject or area under review to ensure that teaching and learning reflect the following principles set out in our Public Sector Equality Duty:  

• All learners are of equal value  
• We recognise and respect difference  
• We foster positive attitudes and relationships, and a shared sense of cohesion and belonging  
• We aim to reduce and remove inequalities and barriers that already exist

Use the links below to find out about each curriculum area at The Brier School.

School Music Development Plan

All schools should have a music development plan, as set out in the national plan for music education.

The Brier School is to publish a summary of their music development plan on the website. We will then update the summary before the start of each new academic year.

This summary will help us to:

• raise awareness of our music development plan
• promote the school music offer to parents and prospective parents
• give greater opportunity for schools and music hubs to work together

Religious Education - The Right to Withdraw

Right of Withdrawal – Dudley syllabus 2022

Parents have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of Religious Education and from Collective Worship. This was affirmed in the 1944 Education Act and has been reaffirmed in later Educational Legislation (HMSO, 1988; 1996) and in the guidance document “Religious education in English schools: Non-statutory guidance 2010” (DCSF 2010)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/religious-education-guidance-in-english-schools-non-statutory-guidance-2010

The use of the right of withdrawal should be at the instigation of parents or of students themselves if they are aged 18 or over and should be in writing. It should be made clear whether withdrawal is from the whole of the subject or specific parts of it. Withdrawal from RE should be made in writing to The Head Teacher.

Parents/carers are then invited in to discuss alternative arrangements with the Head Teacher and RE lead teacher.

For more information about The Brier School curriculum please contact:

Mrs B Landon - Associate Headteacher

Responsibilities:

Teaching & Learning & Curriculum, Line Management of: Maths, English, Phonics. 

Please make contact via the school office: 

Tel: 01384 816000

Email: contact@brier.dudley.sch.uk