Curriculum Overview

Furness Academy’s curriculum takes students from the secure and close-knit feel that characterises good primary schooling to high levels of independent learning over the five years of their secondary education.

All students have an individual learning plan. along with the support of staff, this will allow students to plan their individual curriculum pathways within the Academy as well as progression routes beyond.

The curriculum is be structured around three Learning Zones:
- Science and Technology
- Creativity and Performance
- Community, Culture and Communications

Throughout their five years at Furness Academy, students study and achieve qualifications within the Learning Zones in the following areas:
- English and Literacy
- Maths and Numeracy
- Physical Education and Sport Science
- Technology
- PSD (Personal and Social Development)
- Modern Foreign Languages
- Humanities
- RE (Religious and Moral Education)

 

Principal

Principal

Our Summer term is now well underway and I am very pleased with the dedication our students have been showing towards their studies and the energy which they have been putting into the wider activities at the Academy.