Curriculum
Our unique 
curriculum has been carefully written to meet the needs of our students.
Overall Curriculum Intent:
Our curriculum is ambitious - it is coherently planned and sequenced, and carefully designed to meet the holistic needs of all our students. It allows all students to recognise their skills, qualities, aspirations and goals. It supports engagement with the arts and embraces digital technologies to support learning in the modern world. It is broad and balanced and EMPOWERs our students to become increasingly INDEPENDENT; to be more EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS; and to have EMOTIONAL WELLBEING – so that they are prepared to meet the world beyond Lampard.
We have identified these as our Phase Intents:
Lower School: To lay the foundations for learning and success
Middle School: To consolidate the strong foundations of learning and to apply skills with greater independence
Upper School: To demonstrate the skills and knowledge gained in functional contexts and prepare students for life beyond Lampard.
Real-life contexts underpin everything we do. We have developed a strong approach to Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) – in fact, we have achieved the Gold Mark for this – and give students targeted, planned-for opportunities to develop and practise their skills in the real world every week. This includes visiting our onsite Farm School, Forest School, Allotments and Wilderness areas and accessing all our outdoor learning zones. We track these activities under the Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) framework and have developed our 'Future Fridays' programme to focus on applying these skills in each of the four PfA areas: Education and Employment, Independent Living, Community Inclusion and Health.
To find out more about any aspect of our curriculum, please contact your child's Class Tutor or their Phase Coordinator in the first instance, or use the admin email address.
In developing the curriculum, we have taken into account many contextual factors - our location, the areas in which our students live, the facilities available in these areas, the post-16 options, the economic situations of our families and the North Devon area in general, as well as the local jobs market and the outcomes set out in the EHCPs of our current cohort of students. Using the National Curriculum as our starting point, we have identified key skills and concepts to focus on in each curriculum area, and adapted these to each age and stage, to deliver a curriculum that will allow our students to have the most successful and fulfilled lives in the future as valued members of society.
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A special note about RE:
Our school aims to ensure that RE is taught in an inclusive and respectful way, exploring a range of beliefs and worldviews to promote understanding and tolerance in our society.
Religious Education (RE) is determined locally, not nationally. We follow the SACRE Agreed Syllabus for Devon and Torbay as required by law. When planning the syllabus, it is adapted for the learning needs of our students to ensure a child-centred approach is applied.
Special schools, such as ours, are required to ensure that every student receives RE following the agreed syllabus ‘as far as is practical’ so that they can make connections between religious and non-religious beliefs, concepts, practises, and ideas studied. Parents and carers do have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of Religious Education (RE) lessons if they wish. If you are considering this, please contact the class teacher to discuss your request and any alternative arrangements that may be made.
Key Stage 4 Options
OPTIONAL SUBJECTS
Upper School is a very exciting time for our students - you are able to make some choices about what you want to learn and select some of your lessons. At Lampard Community School we offer a wide range of subjects, so we know there will be something to interest you all!
Our KS4 Options curriculum allows students to make choices about which subjects they want to study in Year 10 and 11. Students have the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills, and to experience a range of chosen subject areas. Students work towards accreditation within a broad range of academic, creative and vocational subjects. Students will be supported to pick subjects that are linked to their interests, skills and aspirations for the future. Credits from these subjects are used to gain accreditation from either WJEC, NCFE or AQA examining boards, depending on the subjects chosen.
Students are only required to commit to optional subjects for one year at a time. If they study a subject in Year 10, they can continue with it in Year 11 or choose something different.
We are currently offering students 4 optional subjects: 2 double (2 x lessons per week, in the afternoon) and 2 single (1 x lesson per week, in the morning). Further information about all of these can be found on the presentation, which is uploaded as an attachment at the bottom of this page.
Making Choices:
Choosing options can be tricky for some students but there is lots of support available to help them with their choices.
The KS4 Options event in March each year, is designed to give students and their families the information they need about each subject. Teachers, aided by current Upper School students, run stalls for each subject and display some of the work they have produced. They are there to answer your questions. Ms Winter gives a presentation at this event to talk through how the options work.
Parents / carers are sent details of the Options event along with an information booklet, a week or two prior to the event. In the meantime, please watch the 202 Options presentation below;
What's Next?
Once you have had a good look at the options available, spoken to adults in school and with your family, and watched the Upper School Presentation- it is time to make your choices!
Think about subjects that you are interested in. Subjects that you enjoy. Subjects that are linked to jobs you would like to do.
The presentation video will explain how to tell us your choices. Each student will be sent home an options booklet and choices form. Please return this form to school by the given deadline.
Who can help?
Ahead of the KS4 Options event our CSW Careers Development Consultant Natalie Bray talks to Year 9 and 10 students and can offer further support to students and their families.
During your 1:1 Preparation for Adulthood meetings we will talk about careers aspirations and what subjects can help you with these. You can book extra time to talk to her if you need to. There will also be a Year 9 assembly to talk about options. Ms Winter in the careers lead in school and can be contacted to discuss any questions parents and students may have.
The Year 9 Tutors also work to support you through this in school. They will help you to identify what skills and interests you have and to think about which subjects will help you towards your career aspirations. If you want to talk through subjects with Upper School teachers or students, your tutor can arrange this for you.
If your family is unable to access the website to see the options choices, we have options booklets available. These can be requested through the school office (a letter goes home to tell families about this).
Latest Curriculum Topic Overviews
Please see below the latest curriculum topic overviews for Lower School, Middle School and Upper School, including Upper School Options.
Maths - Money Skills at Home
Our 
curriculum is specifically designed for our SEND learners and is very practical - and you can support learning at home, too!
Please watch this video to show you some things you can do at home to support the money skills we teach at school in our cross-curricular maths lessons.
Reading at Home
Our 
curriculum is specifically designed for our SEND learners and is very practical. You can support learning at home, too!
Please watch this video to show you some things you can do at home to support reading.
Learning Outside the Classroom / Farm School
Through the 
curriculum’s intent and implementation, pupils have appropriate and developmental opportunities to explore the world around them and are encouraged to use their skills and knowledge independently in real-life contexts. A clear rationale to our approach to Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) allows for a measured and robust approach for all pupils to experience regular, targeted enrichment opportunities to broaden their life experiences and increase their cultural capital. This includes making full use of our outdoor spaces, curriculum trips, community engagement, residentials, use of sports facilities and sporting events etc alongside a wide range of invited visitors such as musicians, business people, sports men and women, faith leaders and drama companies (to name but a few).
In September 2024, we were thrilled to be awarded the Silver Learning Outside the Classroom award, in recognition of our whole-school approach, awarded by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.
Farm School
Our onsite Farm School is a fantastic addition to our Outdoor Learning offer. Students have a timetabled lesson each week when they can experience a range of animals in a farm setting. At present we have a Kune Kune pig, four goats, chickens, quails, running ducks, rabbits and guinea pigs. All of our animals have been rehomed. Students are learning how to care for all the different animals, how to hold them correctly, and in KS4 they can gain a recognised Animal Care qualification.
Our 'Future Fridays' Offer
Have you heard about our 'Future Fridays' programme? This is an exciting focus for us each week, as we take part in a planned, progressive series of learning opportunities which focus on our career aspirations and building up our community engagement. Every student gets to try new things, go to new places, learn new skills, and develop interests and skills that they didn't know they had! Mrs White, out Enrichment Leader, oversees this curriculum and it really helps our students to look to the future with confidence and excitement. It sits underneath the Preparation for Adulthood curriculum and is integral to our curriculum offer.
Outdoor Learning
Students also have a weekly Outdoor Learning session, where they develop skills in nature study and horticulture. These are led by their class tutor. Classes look after the planting beds and learn about native plants and flowers that encourage wildlife into our play spaces. Upper School students can choose to take Land Studies and/or Environmental Studies as Options subjects and they continue to develop their knowledge and skills in our outdoor areas, helping to maintain the grounds and develop planting schemes.
Forest School
We also have a dedicated Forest School area. Forest School is an inspirational process, that offers learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees.
Forest School is a specialised learning approach that sits within and compliments the wider context of outdoor and woodland education. We have several Forest School-accredited staff who can lead these activities.
At Forest School all participants are viewed as:
- Equal, unique and valuable
- Competent to explore & discover
- Entitled to experience appropriate risk and challenge
- Entitled to choose, and to initiate and drive their own learning and development
- Entitled to experience regular success
- Entitled to develop positive relationships with themselves and other people
- Entitled to develop a strong, positive relationship with their natural world
- Forest School is a long-term process of regular sessions, rather than a one-off or infrequent visits; the cycle of planning, observation, adaptation and review links each session.
- Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world.
- Forest School uses a range of learner-centred processes to create a community for being, development and learning.
- Forest School aims to promote the holistic development of all those involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners.
- Forest School offers learners the opportunity to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.
- Forest School is run by qualified Forest School practitioners who continuously maintain and develop their professional practise.
