The focus of the curriculum is to ensure that the every student is given the skills to succeed in an ever changing world.  It is recognised that our out of lesson learning is equally as important as the time in front of a teacher.

Every student has a mentor who is responsible for ensuring good behaviour and good pastoral development outside of lessons. At break and lunch all members of the Pastoral Care Team are present to be role models, demonstrate how to interact and engage in a variety of situations, discuss and help remove those barriers to progress.

To gain an all-round experience at school, students also follow core subjects and option choices. On Thursday's pupils follow a more vocational timetable giving them more options to choose. On Fridays pupils have the opportunity to develop further through a selection of enrichment activities.

Pupils can also use Thursdays and Fridays to go to work experience placements to help best prepare them for the world of work.

It is the balance of pastoral and academic development which has seen RVC students achieve so much success, which then underpins the strategies to succeed back in their mainstream school and post 16.