When Cowes Enterprise College set sail with its Maritime Futures Curriculum in 2019, few of us would have anticipated quite how successful it would become.
In the beginning the idea was simple – to weave the Isle of Wight’s maritime heritage into everything we do as a school. It was a conscious decision to maintain traditional curriculum subjects, taking opportunities to deliver core learning through the golden thread of maritime where it fitted.
Now, up to 10% of lessons in key stage 3 are linked to this theme. This has, for example, helped us turn a potentially dry topic, coastal management, into the highlight of the geography year, with students heading out on boats to evaluate local examples of this.
