Ashgate Croft School

Curriculum Policy

Curriculum Content

You can view and download our other curriculum documents here

Remote Learning Information for Parents

SEND Policy

SEND Information Report

Pupil Premium Documents

Y7 Catch Up

School Sports Premium Documents

Our School Outcomes

Our school’s latest progress and attainment figures can be found on the Department for Education’s website. 

Encounters with Employers

Encounters with Experiences of Workplaces

Encoutners with Further and Higher Eduction

World of Work

Careers 

Decisionz – Your local careers & advice magazine 

For the Derbyshire Spring 2021 edition of the above magazine, please click here. 

For the Derbyshire Autumn 2020 edition of the above magazine, please click here. 

Aims & Vision of Careers Education at Ashgate Croft School 

Careers at Ashgate Croft is defined as ‘Any activity which furthers the knowledge, understanding, skill or experience with the purpose of leading to life enhancing outcome, including improving the possibility & probability of working in a range of settings.’ 

We aim to ensure a high quality of vocational and careers education for all our students, to be delivered in a meaningful and appropriate way for their needs and circumstances. 

Through person centred planning with the Education, Health & Care (EHCP) plans at the centre, we support all our students to articulate their aspirations for adult life, including community inclusion, independence, their aspiration to work and promoting their physical and mental health. This also includes adults around our students, knowing the individual and their needs. 

Our school vision is for all our students to become as independent as they can be and to be prepared for adulthood. We aim to give them every opportunity to reach their full potential whether that is to continue in further education, employment, or independent living. 

Parent/Carer Involvement 

We work in partnership with parents/carers and other agencies to ensure that students are supported holistically in their development. We do this by the use of home-school books, newsletters, parent/carer evenings, coffee mornings, school website, and whole school events, we share information, open days and careers fairs to help inform the decision-making process. 

We inform parent/carers of opportunities which will enrich, enhance and add to the curriculum offered at Ashgate Croft, including open days, activities and events. We remind our parents/carers that with the right support, many young people with SEND can find paid work and be supported to live independently and participate in leading a full and active role in their community. 

• Ashgate Croft School Careers lead and work experience co-ordinator – Richard Windle 

acsrwindle@learnerstrust.org 

• Member of Leadership Team responsible for Careers – Georgia Middlebrook (Assistant Head – Upper School) 

acsgmiddlebrook@learnerstrust.org 

• Ashgate Croft independent careers adviser – Laura Wilkins (Senior SEND Officer 14-25) 

Chesterfield College Information Evening 

On Tuesday 23rd February 2021, Chesterfield College held a virtual careers information event for families. This was hosted by Helen Davie who is one of the Foundation Studies tutors at Chesterfield College. 

Family Careers Information Evening – Year 10 and Year 11 

On Tuesday 26th January 2021, Richard Windle and Laura Wilkins hosted a virtual careers evening for families of Year 10 and Year 11 students. This was a great opportunity for families to watch a presentation from Laura on information about choices for Post-16 education and the chance to ask questions about the next steps. 

Due to the success of this evening, we will be organising more information evenings in the future. 

RRSA – Rights Respecting School 

Ashgate Croft School has successfully been awarded Gold by Unicef “Rights Respecting School” (December 2019). 

Unicef is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school. Gold is the highest accolade given by Unicef UK and shows a deep and thorough commitment to children’s rights at all levels of school life. 

The Award recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s planning, policies and practice. A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. 

The Unicef UK Rights Respecting Schools iniative is aimed at schools across the UK, including those in an early years setting. This year the programme has received additional support from The People’s Postcode Lottery. This vital funding is helping UNICEF UK continue its work with over 4500 primary schools, secondary schools, schools for children and young people with special educational needs and pupil referral units across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Schools have reported a positive impact on pupil behaviour, relationships and well-being by enhancing pupil’s self-esteem, leading to less truancy and bullying, better learning and improved academic standards. 

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School Council 

School council representatives are elected from each department. The school council meet on a termly basis to discuss key issues in school and make decisions about events taking place in school. 

To view the minutes of meetings, please see here.