The curriculum at Co-op Academy Walkden supports the aims, ethos and values of the school by:

• Providing equity of opportunity for all students to learn and to succeed together;
• Promoting students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and preparing all students for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life;
• Ensuring that equality of opportunity in access to the curriculum is an entitlement;
• Ensuring that extra-curricular activities play an important part in school life;
• Providing students with every opportunity to be happy and successful learners and show they care;
• Building on students’ strengths, interests and experiences both inside and outside school;
• Helping students to develop their knowledge within and across subject disciplines;
• Ensuring that important skills are embedded in the curriculum for all subjects, using a wide range of practical, theoretical and creative learning opportunities.

Objectives relating to the curriculum aims of Co-op Academy Walkden are that:

• Students will develop their abilities to their maximum potential
• Students will be aware of the needs of the communities of which they are a part, and be prepared to contribute fully to the life of those communities;
• All students will be offered a curriculum that has breadth and depth and is tailored to the differing needs of students; 

Students who leave Co-op Academy Walkden will:

• Be confident in their dealings with adults and peers;
• Be resilient in the face of challenge;
• Be able to develop good working relationships with others;
• Have knowledge of a wide range of cultures and through this come to respect the rights and needs of others;
• Be able to make sound judgements;
• Have developed a love of learning that will last for the rest of their lives;
• Be adaptable enough to react to the needs of a fast changing world; 
• Be articulate, literate and numerate and have lively, enquiring, independent minds.