The Everest Community Academy Performing Arts curriculum aims to give students a love of learning, the confidence to be creative in a wide variety of settings and an understanding of how to develop important life skills, transferable across the school curriculum and beyond.

We aim to create a curriculum that is aspirational and engaging for all, from the start of key stage 3, right up until the end of key stage 4. In lessons this takes the form of:

-          Top down differentiation

-          Scaffolded learning,

-          Challenge tasks

-          Exemplars from staff and professional works/practitioners

-          Lesson activities related to all elements of the current performing arts industries (e.g. production design, script writing, marketing, etc)

Beyond lessons, the department also offers a wide variety of extra curricular activities such as clubs, workshops with external professionals, a programme for career guidance and advice and trips to see performance work live. These additional opportunities allow pupils to extend their love of learning and understand how their curriculum knowledge can be applied to the real work of creative and performing arts.

Performing Arts Curriculum Overview