In school, we deliver a broad and balanced curriculum alongside personal development activities, to enhance their educational experience and promote a love of learning.
Our aim is to provide support and encouragement to all our learners enabling them to have a positive approach to life and gain the following skills to become determined, lifelong learners and successful citizens. We approach this through our four core values;
At The Kassia we believe in instilling a core value of High Standards in everything we do. Our learners deserve the best. Our innovative and personalised curriculum, with engaging and exciting lessons, aims to get buy in and commitment from our young people. Our trauma informed environments provide comfortable and calming learning spaces and social areas in which they can learn and interact with one another. Our learners are constantly encouraged to take pride in everything they do and as a result produce beautiful learning which is celebrated. It is important to us that our young people feel we have high expectations of them and that they are in no way disadvantaged through attending our alternative provision academy.
Developing Empathy amongst our young people is vital in supporting them to become successful citizens and enabling them to build relationships with one another. Through careful coaching, pastoral care and an innovative Personal Development Curriculum our learners are encouraged to support one another through challenging situations, taking into account their difference in perspectives.
Developing Resilience is paramount to our approach. Our aim is to equip our learners with the skills they need to be able to cope with life’s challenges. More than just ‘bouncing back’ when knocked down, we focus on teaching our young people how to adapt to difficult situations and provide them with a range of coping strategies that they can draw on to be able to manage challenging situations they may face both in and out of school.
Supporting our learners in understanding their emotions forms the basis of our pastoral care and is key to enabling their success. We understand that many of our young people have experienced trauma at some point in their lives. Our aim, through a package of therapeutic support, is to enable our learners to understand and manage their emotions and develop a range of coping strategies which they can draw from.
At The Kassia Academy, we actively promote positive, inclusive values.
These include democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect for and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs. We believe British values are those values expected of anyone living in Britain, regardless of their nationality, culture or religious belief.
We place great emphasis on building positive relationships in school, amongst the students themselves and between staff and students. We strongly believe students should not merely be taught such values but that they are embedded into school life.
The Kassia Academy promotes British values through our broad and balanced curriculum. We are committed to serving our community and recognise the multi-cultural, multi-faith and ever changing nature of the United Kingdom. We also understand the vital role we have in ensuring that groups or individuals within the school are not subjected to intimidation or radicalisation by those wishing to unduly, or illegally, influence them.
The Government has outlined its expectations in terms of British Values, stating that students should:
At The Kassia Academy, through our broad and balanced curriculum we:
At Kassia, we promote and reinforce five key British values. These are promoted in a variety of ways in and out of the classroom.
British Values have been defined as:
We believe and actively support the view that all students should be protected from radicalisation and extremism. Our approach to this is in line with the Government’s CONTEST (the counter terrorist strategy) and PREVENT (stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism) strategies. We support and adhere to the latest guidance from the Department for Education which requires school o actively promote fundamental British Values and to ensure that students are encouraged to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance.
We are committed to educating students with regard to their engagement with and acceptance of the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We aim to support our students in developing and demonstrating skills and attitudes that will allow them to participate fully in and contribute positively to life in modern Britain.
