Our curriculum is one of the key drivers we use to realise our Design Principles. Our relentless focus is to ensure that our students grow their character, create beautiful work and achieve academic success, therefore, we develop our curriculum so that learning is relevant, purposeful and authentic.
When reflecting on the purpose of our curriculum, this manifests into a number of key strands that we use as a focus for realising our design principles through our curriculum.
Our three rich seams at XP are:
Protecting Our Planet – this is an existential threat so this is an imperative part of our curriculum. If we want our students to change the world, they need to save it first and they need the skills to lead this action. Our students make the knowledge they acquire around this seam powerful by actively making a differenc
Standing for Social Justice – the world is filled with inequity and this is sustained by systems, structures and governance that protects the interests of the few and neglects the many. We uncover, confront and challenge inequities of race, gender, identity and class through our work and use the knowledge we acquire to affect social and cultural change. We want our students to be leaders of this change.
Cultivating Diversity and Belonging – at XP we understand the power of Crew and we know our community is stronger because of our differences. This is, therefore, a key strand that runs through many of our expeditions and case studies allowing our students to deepen their empathy and understanding of the value of difference and non-conformity. We strive for equality at XP by promoting equity so this is reflected in our curriculum design.