Primary Phase
LCA+ Curriculum Intent
The LCA+ curriculum aims to create:
- learners who know more and remember more than the national curriculum and the examination and testing content and specification require;
- engaged learners who are developing better moral, physical, spiritual, emotional and social habits and dispositions;
- fluent and confident writers and readers;
- purposeful learners able to use numeracy and critical thinking skills to ask questions and solve problems;
- passionate learners who know how they learn and who love to learn.
Curriculum Overview
LCA Curriculum overview - 2023-24 Academic year
Chapter Learning Journeys
Click on the links below to read the half term learning journeys for each Chapter (year group).
| Year Group | Michaelmas Term 2023 | Lent Term 2024 | Summer Term 2024 | |||
| Reception | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
| Chapter 1 | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
| Chapter 2 | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
| Chapter 3 | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
| Chapter 4 | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
| Chapter 5 | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
| Chapter 6 | One | Two | One | Two | One | Two |
subject overviews
Click on the links below to access information about the curriculum in each subject.
| LCA Strand | Curriculum Implementation Summary | 'Subject on a Page' |
| English | English | English, Phonics and Reading |
| Expressive Arts | Art | Art |
| Music | Music | |
| Humanities | Geography | Geography |
| History | History | |
| RE | RE | |
| Languages | MFL | MFL |
| Maths | Maths | Maths |
| Science | Science | Science |
| Technology, Enterprise & Sport | Computing | Computing |
| DT | DT | |
| PE | PE |
Phonics and Reading Scheme
We use a system called Read Write Inc to develop pupils' phonological skills.
We use the Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books, supplemented by many well-known reading resources to develop reading skills.
Primary Phase Writing Non-Negotiables
Click here to download the writing non-negotiables for each Chapter (year group).
LC+ Curriculum Overview - 2023-24 Academic year
Click on the links below to read the LC+ curriculum overview for each Chapter.
PSHE Curriculum
Learn more about the PSHE LC+ strand by clicking on the links - PSHE Curriculum Implementation Summary and PSHE 'Subject on a Page'
English Non-negotiables (Primary Phase)
If you would like to find out more about the curriculum please look at our Curriculum Policy or contact the school with your query using the Contact Us page.
Attendance
Liverpool College is committed to supporting all its pupils to attend school.
Research has shown conclusively that attendance is the essential ingredient of consistent and good progress.
The College takes seriously its duty to do all it can to ensure excellent attendance across every phase of the school.
Please download and read our Attendance Poster that sets out why attendance is so important.
Absence
We expect parents and carers to notify the school promptly is absence is unavoidable, usually through illness, and to give an accurate and honest explanation of the reason for the absence, and to provide the address where the pupils will be if they are ill.
NHS Guidance - Is my child too sick for school? - the NHS has produced some guidance to help parents understand when their child can and cannot attend school which you may find useful.
Parents should seek authorisation from school before undertaking any activity which means an absence from school for their child. Without this written request, absence will be unauthorised.
Pupils and parents should expect the College or its representative to visit their homes in the event of illness absence. This is intended to support a pupil who may be ill and to work towards the quickest possible reintegration of the pupil into school.
Pupils whose attendance falls below 93% will not be permitted to participate in school trips or events which further reduce their attendance except those trips or events directly related to national curriculum subjects.
Parents should expect to be fined if their child has 10 or more unauthorised absence sessions (there are two session per school day) in a term.
If a pupil has attended a doctor’s surgery or appointment, they should bring a copy of their appointment note to school.
NHS Guidance - Is my child too ill for school?
Rewards and Recognitions
The College recognises the excellent attendance of individuals, classes and Houses through a series of rewards. These are designed to encourage high attendance.
Further Information
Click here to access further information on attendance and absence in our Attendance and Registration Policy.
Careers
Careers Information and Guidance
Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance is a vital part of the education of our pupils here at Liverpool College. It fills a large strand within our LC+ Curriculum. We are committed to delivering a full Careers Programme to fulfil the 2018 Government’s Careers Strategy and we work towards fulfilling all the criteria within the Gatsby Benchmarks and the Careers Development Institute Framework for Careers, Employer and Enterprise Education. We work in partnership with the Careers and Enterprise Company and achieved the national Careers Quality Standard Award in October 2019 and we will be working towards this award again in late 2023.
Liverpool College Careers Education, Information and Guidance Policy
Careers’ Staff at College
Mrs J Drew (Careers Lead and Careers Adviser)
email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. telephone: 0151 724 4000 ext 3181
Mrs S Doran (STEM Coordinator and Careers, Wilton Scholars)
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Advisors
Ms K Wyke Enterprise Co-ordinator, LCR Careers Hub
Mr K Quirk Employer Advisor
The Delivery of Careers Education and Guidance
Personal development and Careers
The main vehicle for the delivery of our programme is through our Personal Development and Careers lessons, which take place on a weekly basis for K3/4 and KS5. Our programme is measured and assessed through staff and student reviews and feedback surveys. Teaching staff have access to their year group on OneNote where all lessons and resources are uploaded each half term and pupils, parents and employers can find the careers strand of the programme can be found here
Employer Masterclasses
Our pupils experience many meaningful Employer encounters. A wide variety of Employers are invited to deliver Masterclasses or workshops. Interested pupils are invited to attend these sessions. Pupils are identified from the results of a pupil survey which highlights their areas of interest. We welcome new employers who would like to work with our students and support our careers programme. Any employers who wish to support strategically can also sign up to become an Enterprise Adviser.
CAREERPILOT
Liverpool College has invested in Careerpilot online as we feel the site provides sophisticated testing and profiles to initiate thinking and to form a basis for conversation during individual careers interviews provided by the College.
Careerpilot holds expert careers information and tools for 11-19 yr olds and students will all have their account for life. During Personal Development lessons the students will complete career profiles, a skills profile and have the opportunity to research further education, training and employment. We are now a Careerpilot Superuser School
Careerpilot also provides detailed Labour Market Information (LMI) and an area where pupils can record their progress in school, activities, skills and qualities, volunteering and work experience.
Careerpilot also has a Parent Zone which offers information to parents and carers to help them to support their children in making decisions about their next steps at 14, 16 and 18 years.
careers guidance; the gatsby benchmarks
In 2013, Gatsby commissioned Sir John Holman to set out what career guidance in England would be like if it were good by international standards, resulting in the Good Career Guidance report. The eight benchmarks set out in the report serve as a framework for improvement in careers provision and have been adopted as part of the Government's Careers Strategy and statutory guidance for schools and colleges.
The eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance are:
1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance
In addition, The Careers & Enterprise Company now supports the implementation of the benchmarks in schools and colleges with a national network of support, resources and targeted funding. Through the CEC, and with the shared understanding of what works, we implemented Compass, the online evaluation tool,to self-assess our careers programme and track students improvements in 2019. In 2021 we upgraded to Compass+ which offers the facility to collect student level data. Compass+ helps schools benchmark, manage, track and report on their school’s careers provision. Compass+integrates with a school’s Management Information System and pulls in pupil level data.Schools can then personalise careers interventions to the individual student, with the supporting more targeted careers programme planning and delivery.
Liverpool College is a member of the Liverpool City Region Careers Hub which provides support with our careers programme and also provides network links with local schools, colleges, universities and employers. Click here for more information.
individual careers guidance interviews
Liverpool College students have impartial careers guidance interviews at pivotal points during their time at the College. The interviews start at the beginning of the Michaelmas term when Chapter 11 have their next step interview to discuss their options for post 16. Towards the end of this term Chapter 9 students have a short guidance interview to discuss their option choices and GCSE pathway. Finally our Chapter 12 students are all interviewed in the Lent term to discuss their post 18 options. Careers guidance is not limited to these Chapter groups and any student can request a careers guidance interview by speaking to their House Mentor or Mrs Drew in C13.
INDEPENDENT CAREERS ADVICE
Although employed by the College, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.our Careers Adviser, ensures that all guidance is presented in an impartial manner, showing no bias or favouritism towards any particular institution, education or work option. Mrs Drew is a Registered Career Development Professional with the Career Development Institute and abides by their Code of Ethics. Information is shared on a wide range of education or training options, including apprenticeships and technical education routes. Guidance is given to promote the bests interests of the student who recieve it.
STEM
Our pupils experience a vast range of activities and competitions. Click here to view Careers and STEM LC+ overview to see the full range of activities offered.
Special Events
These include a Careers Fair (Chapter 8-13), Mock Interviews (Chapter 11), Alternative Providers Event (Chapter 9) and visits to university and employers throughout the year. We also have school based events for National Careers Week in March each year.
Wilton Scholars
A wide variety of Career related activities are undertaken by our Gifted and Talented pupils. Click here to view the Wilton Scholars Programme.
Work Experience
Chapter 12 pupils carry out a block of 8 days work experience at a work placement of their choice.
All students are encouraged to secure work experience and with the Covid 19 pandemic ,there are more opportunities than ever for our students to complete valuable work experience virtually. The College has built links with Speakers For Schools, Springpod and Uptree to offer our students the best virtual work experience, free of charge.
Liverpool College also has a partnership with InvestIn which offers life changing, immersive careers programmes for students aged 12-18. As a partner school we have 10 bursaries a year to offer to our students who fit the egibility criteria who get to experience as many of these high quality, certificated experiences as they want, within the academic year. Any student can apply and pay for one of InvestIn's careers programmes independently of College and we have a 10% discount code for use. Below is the summer program information availbale to our students
Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.for further information.
Visits
Pupils experience a range of visits throughout the year to various places of employment including Land Rover Jaguar and universities such as the University of Liverpool.
Lessons
We include Career Education, Information and Guidance, within our lessons, linking subject learning to the world of work.
Careers Information and Guidance for Pupils
PROVIDER ACCESS LEGISLATION
The updated provider access legislation (PAL) has now been enacted. It specifies schools must provide at least six encounters with approved providers of apprenticeships and technical education for all their students:
- Two encounters for pupils during the ‘first key phase’ (year 8 or 9) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend
- Two encounters for pupils during the ‘second key phase’ (year 10 or 11) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend
- Two encounters for pupils during the ‘third key phase’ (year 12 or 13) that are mandatory for the school to put on but optional for pupils to attend
This new legislation will become a key mechanism to further help learners understand and take-up, not just apprenticeships, but wider technical education options such as T-Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications.
Please click here for our Provider Access Policy
Entitlement statement:
It is the policy of this College that all pupils should be given the opportunity to:
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Know and understand themselves better and develop their capabilities
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Investigate education, training and career opportunities
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Implement their career plans by making informed choices, in a supportive atmosphere, about their own continuing education and training.
Click here to view our Entitlement Statement
In Chapter 7-13 all pupils are expected to use Careerpilot to carry out career profiling and career research. In addition pupils should use the Log in facility to record skills and qualities, progress and targets, activities undertaken and volunteering and work experience.
The main two websites that are very useful to our pupils are:
Careerpilot Careerpilot
Success at Schools. www.successatschool.org
SKILLSBUILDER
Liverpool College are a Skillsbuilder Partnership School. Skillsbuilder believe that essential skills unlock learning in the classroom, boosting academic outcomes, perseverance and self belief. They halve the likelihood of being out of work, and increase earnings across a lifetime. They even boost wellbeing and life satisfaction.But access to these skills isn’t fair. And where they are missed, it undermines social mobility, productivity and wellbeing.We think everyone, at every stage of their lives, should have the opportunities to build them. Students at Liverpool College work through the Skillsbuilder programme from Chapter 9, completing lessons and tasks during their Personal Development lessons. More information can be found here skillsbuilder 
National Careers Service helpline for students
National Careers Service free helpline – 0800 100 900 - is open from 8am to 10pm every day and you are more than welcome to get in touch with trained advisers, to ask any questions you may have about your child’s education or career opportunities. Callers to the helpline will have direct access to experienced careers advisers who can advise on all the different options available to them, including A levels, GCSEs, BTECs, apprenticeships and other vocational options. Other support will be available on topics such as clearing, university, gap years, moving away from home and re-sits.
The National Careers Service; Get The Jump is available for anyone aged 13+ providing advice and information on a range of topics including careers, education, employment and training/apprenticeships.
The National Careers website has a range of contact channels which are accessible to all; they offer a free online chat with an adviser, you can send an email, text or arrange a call-back and they also have minicom (for customers who are deaf or have hearing difficulties).
Your child can complete a free Skills Health Check test through our website which will suggest specific job sectors they may be suited to, based on their skills and strengths. They can also research their career ideas using our popular job profile.
Careers Information and Employers
We are very grateful to our Enterprise Co-ordinator from the Liverpool City Region Careers Hub @LCRCareersEnt and our link Employer.
We are also indebted to our Employers who deliver our Masterclasses.
If you are interested in visiting the college and providing Education, Information and Guidance to our pupils please contact Mrs S Doran This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Other Useful Websites
TRANSITION SUPPORT
Local council support for students with SEND
APPRENTICESHIPS
Apprenticeships; what parents need to know
Rate My Apprenticeship Parents Hub
Apprenticeships: support for parents and guardians
Apprenticeship Assessment Centres
Apprenticeship Interview Questions
T-LEVELS
INTERNSHIPS
An internship is a period of work experience, offered by an organisation, lasting for a fixed period of time anywhere between a week and 12 months. They are typically undertaken by students and graduates looking to gain relevant skills.Employers use periods of work experience to assess a student or graduate's capability and often recruit employees from their interns, rather than advertise their vacancies externally.
For more information click here
For more information on supported internships for students with SEND and an EHCP click here
UNIVERSITY AND UCAS ADVICE
The UniTaster Days website is a very useful wesbite for all students, parents and guardians. Here you will find subject guides, information on university events, advice and podcasts UniTasterDays
INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
Clearing for the Confused Parents start here
Degree Courses: Academic v. Vocational
How to Write an Effective UCAS Personal Statement
University and Your Future: Career Planning and Making the Most of Your Degree
DEGREE APPRENTICESHIPS
What is a degree apprenticeship?
Degree apprenticeship information and vacancies
Degree apprenticeship vacancies
CAREERS ADVICE
Student resource: Spring into success careers roadmap
Talking Futures- advice for Parents
USEFUL LINKS FOR PARENTS/GUARDIANS
Protection against extremism
http://educateagainsthate.com/parents/
Department for Education Website
Compare Schools Performance Tables
Local Authority Website
ONLINE SAFETY
http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/hot-topics
http://www.parentalguidance.org.uk/
FURTHER EDUCATION
LOCAL UNIVERSITIES
Liverpool John Moores University
LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION
Liverpool Enterprise Partnership
Parental Guidance
Parental Guidance is another useful website written by members of the Careers Writers Association. The Association consists of highly experienced careers writers of articles, books and web-based materials for the 14-25 age group. Many are also experienced and qualified careers advisers who have worked in schools, colleges and universities in the UK as well as overseas. Do visit the Find a careers writer pages for more details including special writing interests, and the wide range organisations who have commissioned our work.
General Advice
The most important thing you can offer is the knowledge of where to find the right information, so you can do the research into their options together.
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To begin with, it’s important your child knows what are their strengths, their skills and abilities. You will undoubtedly know what they are good at but it’s difficult to recognise your own skills and strengths. You can use the Skills Health Check test on the National Careers website to help your child become more aware of their strengths, weakness and career sectors they may be suited to.
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The Skills Health Check is a great starting point and can help your child with researching specific career sectors and understanding more about themselves as an individual. It’s important to remember that any careers related test you take is purely meant as a guide.
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The career choices which the test may offer up can be researched further on the ‘Job Profile’ pages. The National Careers Service have over 800 different types of career options, from gardener to graphic designer and everything in between! Each one explains which skills and qualifications you need to get into that job. You can also read about what the work would be like, the average salary you could expect and what the career prospects might be.
One of the most popular search methods for the Job profiles is through the ‘Job Families’ list. This groups similar jobs into one area so you can browse all the different jobs within this field. For example, if your child knows they want to work with animals but isn’t sure what jobs are available, you can look through the profiles for a vet, a kennel worker, a Police dog handler, a farm worker or even a beekeeper!
Benefits of Parental Involvement
Children have better self-esteem, are more self-disciplined, and show higher aspirations and motivation toward school. Children tend to achieve more, regardless of ethnic or racial background, socioeconomic status, or parents' education level. Children generally achieve better grades, test scores, and have better attendance. Research indicates that when students feel supported and loved by their parents, they have more confidence in their own ability to research careers and to choose a career that would be interesting and exciting.
Choices after GCSEs
The choices, which your child makes after completing their GCSEs, are dependent on a number of different factors including their own ambitions, the opportunities offered locally (see Local Labour Market Information link below) and the grades they have achieved.
These choices will really allow your child to tailor their own education and study towards subjects they feel passionate about and allow them to gain the knowledge and experience needed to progress onto their desired career path.
When thinking about steps after compulsory education, it’s important to keep in mind that there is no one size fits all style of education and that everyone learns in different ways. There is no right or wrong or better or worse but with the raising of the participation age coming into effect, this now means your child needs to stay in some form of education or training until their 18th birthday.
Education until their 18th birthday isn’t quite what it sounds; in-fact school leavers have a range of choices:
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1. To stay in full time education working towards, A-levels, BTEC, NVQ or an alternative level 1/2/3 qualification at a local college or sixth form.
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2. An apprenticeship.
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3. A traineeship with the idea of progressing onto an apprenticeship or education.
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4. Employment or Volunteering of 20 hours a week whilst working towards an accredited qualification part time with the study hours adding up to 280 guided learning hours over the course of a year.
Links
Apprenticeships - a parents' guide
NCS Parents Guide - Apprenticeships
NCS Parents Guide - University and Finances
Labour Market Information - Liverpool, Cumbria and Lancashire.pdf
This information was reviewed in September 2023. Next date for review is September 2024
Wilton Scholar Programme
Supporting More Able Learners: Wilton Scholar Programme
At Liverpool College we are dedicated to stretching the most academically able to the very highest standards of excellence through a specialist, tailored programme referred to internally as the Wilton Scholar Programme.
Fundamental Aims of the Wilton Scholar programme
- To increase the academic performance and progress of our most able pupils by making their education challenging, motivational and relevant.
- To cultivate a whole school ethos of challenge and high expectation, where excellence is celebrated and academic achievement is aspirational.
- To become a recognised‘Centre of Excellence’for Gifted and Talented provision.
Provision for our Most Able Students includes:
- Effective identification, tracking, monitoring and intervention procedures.
- Developing a culture of challenge which offers consistently ambitious targets and high levels of challenge both within lessons and throughout their school experience.
- A commitment to nurturing scholastic excellence and developing an ethos where academic excellence is championed and students are imbued with confidence and high ambition.
- A targeted, specialist, enrichment programme, utilising both internal and external expertise, to provide the breadth of knowledge, skills and attitudes required to succeed. This is made possible by specific designated funding, kindly donated to our school by the Wilton Trust.
Inclusion and Learning Support
Liverpool College is committed to an educationally inclusive education in which the teaching and learning, the achievements, attitudes and well-being of every young person matter.
Inclusion at Liverpool College promotes equal opportunities for all pupils, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, attainment and background. It pays particular attention to the provision made for, and the achievement of, different groups of pupils within a school and any pupils who are at risk of disaffection and exclusion.
Our objectives within a college culture of inclusion which is promoted and developed as an essential mission of the college are:
- To ensure that the special needs identification, assessment and provision is the responsibility of all members of staff at Liverpool College
- To ensure that SEN students move from dependency to independence
- To develop a positive approach to special needs which recognises and builds on students’ strengths
- To ensure that systems are in place to monitor the individual learning needs of all students and meet their needs accordingly
- To encourage students to monitor and take responsibility for their own learning and behaviour
- To narrow the differences in progress and outcomes between groups of pupils
- Delivering outstanding SEND practice in the classroom based on clear pupil profiles and learning plans, regularly monitored and evaluated, which allows pupils with SEND needs to make the same progress or better than other groups
- Assessing, managing the behaviour of disaffected and disengaged pupils and groups of so that every pupil makes good progress and engages with school
- Effective Safeguarding and protection of vulnerable pupils
- Effective pupil and family support and support directed to pupils and families who are not accessing the curriculum of the school, and are not making progress and may not be attending regularly
- High attendance, particularly in vulnerable, disadvantaged pupil groups
- Effective partnerships with external agencies which drive improvement engagement, progress, attendance and outcomes for disadvantaged, disaffected, and vulnerable pupils and families.
Policy and practice to meet these objectives are determined by the Liverpool College Inclusion Team led by our Assistant Principal, Inclusion and Safeguarding, Mrs K Duffy.
Please click here to download the presentation about Inclusion that Mrs Duffy gave at a Parent Information Evening.
Our SENCO is Mrs K Crook, contactable at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Curriculum Overview
We implement our mission to be a School of Character through our bespoke LCA+ curriculum.
LCA+ is a challenging, broad and engaging curriculum consisting of seven academic and subject strands and seven strands of personal and social education and development.
The strands prepare and equip all pupils with the knowledge, curiosity and personal traits for success in the next phase of their education and life regardless of their background or any disadvantage.
The primary purpose of the curriculum is to develop to the maximum extent the academic and personal potential of each pupil.
Specifically, the LCA+ curriculum aims to create:
- learners who know more and remember more than the national curriculum and the examination and testing content and specification require;
- engaged learners who are developing better moral, physical, spiritual, emotional and social habits and dispositions;
- fluent and confident writers and readers;
- purposeful learners able to use numeracy and critical thinking skills to ask questions and solve problems;
- passionate learners who know how they learn and who love to learn.
Curriculum Intent
Click here to read about the intent of our LCA+ curriculum.
LCA Curriculum
We challenge and support all pupils to engage in a demanding study in core subjects and subject disciplines - LCA. We insist on a place for the arts, design technology and a foreign language within that programme of study.
LCA strands
- English
- Technology, Enterprise and Sport
- Science
- Expressive Arts
- Maths
- Languages
- Humanities
LC+ Curriculum
We also deliver a graduated programme of character education referred to in the College as LC+. The seven strands of this holistic curriculum ensure pupils develop their character and resilience, giving them the confidence and skills to succeed at university and in the world of work.
LC+ strands
- Artistic Expression
- Awe & Wonder
- Leadership Education
- Life Skills
- Physical Fitness
- PSHE
- Service & Community
To find out more about the development and design of the LC+ curriculum, please click here. You can also access the information about the LC+ curriculum in each part of the school on the individual curriculum pages for Primary (Reception-Chapter 6), Senior (Chapter 7-11) and Sixth Form (Chapter 12-13).
The Chapter Diploma Award
The Chapter Diploma Award seeks to reward pupils for their increasing understanding and commitment to their own wellbeing and that of others around them throughout their time in each Chapter. It is effectively the means of assessing and recognising success within the LC+ curriculum.
By recognising how each pupil strives for independence and self regulation, how they demonstrate respect both for themselves and for others, and a sense of citizenship within Liverpool College we seek to reward the unique education that we offer beyond their important academic achievements.
Each Chapter’s diploma operates within the same framework of Bronze, Silver and Gold with age appropriate and increasingly challenging expectations as children progress on their journey through Liverpool College.
Click here to download the award criteria at Gold, Silver and Bronze level.
These Diploma Awards are awarded in a Chapter awards ceremony at the end of each academic year. For details of the awards in 2022-23 academic year, please click here.
Find out more about our curriculum
If you would like to find out more about our curriculum please look at the individual curriculum pages for Primary (Reception- Chapter 6), Senior (Chapter 7-11) and Sixth Form (Chapter 12-13); our Curriculum Policy or contact the school with your query using the Contact Us page.
