We aim to ensure that our curriculum:
Teachers and Middle Leaders work with our colleagues in The Cam Academy Trust to share good practice through:
Please use the submenu on this page to find more details about the curriculum subjects for each year group through the handbook aimed at parents and carers.
If you require any further information that is not available to you on the website, please contact our Head of School, Niki Smith, at nsmith@melbournvc.org or by ringing the school reception.
We use a tracking system called Go4Schools. Parents are given log in details to the website go4schools.com so they can monitor their child’s progress. The system also allows parents access to their child's timetable, homework set and any behaviour events recorded, both positive and negative.
Supporting your Child
There are three main ways to support your child through Secondary School:
Firstly, to ensure that your child attends school at every available opportunity. Reduced attendance has been demonstrated to reduce academic outcomes.
Secondly, encourage your child to read. Reading widely has an enormous positive impact on a student's progress in all areas of the curriculum. Encourage your child to read anything and everything! The following websites are useful places to go for book recommendations:
Thirdly, ensure your child completes all homework by viewing the tasks set for your child as homework weekly and helping, checking, testing as much as you can.
At Melbourn Village College, we are fully aware of our duty to meet the requirements set out in Section 78 of the Education Act 2002 and promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development of our students. Through ensuring our students’ SMSC development, we can actively promote fundamental British values.
We have weekly Key Stage assemblies to establish a strong school ethos, supported by effective year group support throughout the school. We also provide extra activities beyond the classroom to ensure students’ SMSC development. PSHE is also covered in the Social Studies curriculum.
We encourage our students to treat all people with protected charateristics covered by the Equality Act 2010 with respect and tolerance.
MVC expects students to understand that, while different people may hold different views about what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, all people living in England are subject to its law. Our ethos and teaching supports the rule of English civil and criminal law and we do not teach anything that undermines it. Within our teaching of Religious Education, particular care is taken to explore the relationship and differences between state and religious law.
We work hard to ensure that our new students transfer successfully to us from their primary school. Transition activities include: