EDGE Innovation & Digital Curriculum
Our young people are stepping out into a very different, fast changing world 鈥� but education as a whole hasn鈥檛 yet adapted to prepare them.聽Ensuring that our pupils have the skills and knowledge to thrive (alongside top exam grades) in a fast-changing world, is one of our core priorities.
At Caterham, children from First Year to Upper Sixth (and from KS1 in our Prep School) have dedicated Digital and Innovation lessons which builds their technology, problem solving, teamworking, project management, entrepreneurial and self-reflection skills.聽 Our Digital and Innovation Curriculum is called EDGE (Explore, Develop, Grow, Evolve).聽 Our focus on digital and innovation includes a thoughtful and groundbreaking use of of AI in the classroom, and with homework, in the shape of our purpose built AI teaching bot RileyBot. At Caterham tech isn’t about replacing teachers or people 鈥� it鈥檚 about preparing our young people to be discerning users of technology as they move out into the world – not simply consumers of tech.
EDGE enables our pupils to develop skills for today and the future. The skills we focus on are informed by research and by working with organisations across the world, ensuring that we are constantly adapting and developing our work allows our pupils to succeed in whatever they choose to do.
EDGE stands for Explore, Develop, Grow, Evolve. EDGE is built upon three central elements: Learning to Learn, Big Ideas and Practical Problem-Solving. Each year group will experience these elements in different and challenging ways, whether that鈥檚 through the Theory of Knowledge and Critical Thinking (Learning to Learn), the environment and communication (Big Ideas) or the School in a Box and Circular Economy projects (Practical Problem-Solving), the EDGE curriculum builds up a wealth of ideas, knowledge and skills which our pupils can put into action in lessons, in their day-to-day lives and to inspire them to face challenges with the tools to overcome, redesign and rethink any problem they choose to tackle.
罢丑别听EDGE Curriculum begins in the First Year, with a focus on metacognition and developing the ability to conduct effective self-reflection and culminates in the Sixth Form with pupils participating in seminars from world-leading experts in fields as varied as ethics, activism and Artificial Intelligence. Recently First Years undertook their first EDGE project with Sal’s Shoes, see how they go on below.
EDGE enables our pupils to develop skills for today and the future. The skills we focus on are informed by research and by working with organisations across the world, ensuring that we are constantly adapting and developing our work allows our pupils to succeed in whatever they choose to do.
Some of the skills developed through the EDGE curriculum:
