Key Stage 4

Dream Big.   Through aspirational and inspirational teaching, learners will attain outcomes which empower and enable their future pathways.

Work Hard.  We’re supporting learners to develop self-discipline and courage, enabling them to grow as individuals, now and in the future.

Be Kind.  We treat every member of the community with kindness and respect.  Quality relationships and restorative approaches are at the heart of what we do.

 

Our KS4 curriculum is ambitious meaning that it provides challenge to all learners as follows:

  • It covers the National Curriculum for our subject area

  • It progresses from the KS3 National Curriculum (as appropriate) and deepens understanding of any learning that we revisit to avoid repetition of content

  • It provides support in literacy and numeracy development across all subject areas

  • It outlines how we weave the little examples, the stories, the illustrations and the richness of the topic into our lessons

  • It uses high quality resources (e.g. texts, artefacts, examples, textbooks) 

The number of hours allocated to the teaching of a wide range of GCSE subjects can be seen below: 

 

Key Stage 4



 

Our Key Stage 4 curriculum is broad including all the subjects shown below.  For each curriculum area at Key Stage 4, click on the faculty or subject name to find out what students learn, when and what Age Related Knowledge and Skills they acquire:

 

Faculty Subject Exam Board
Art Fine Art AQA
  Photography AQA
Business, Computing & Economics Business Enterprise BTEC Pearson/Edexcel
  Business GCSE Pearson/Edexcel
  Digital ICT BTEC Pearson/Edexcel
  Computing GCSE Pearson/Edexcel
Drama Drama WJEC/Eduqas
DT Food GCSE AQA
  Hospitality and Catering (WJEC Level 1 or 2) WJEC/Eduqas
  Product Design AQA
  Textiles GCSE AQA
English English Language AQA
  English Literature AQA
Humanities Geography Pearson/Edexcel
  History Pearson/Edexcel
  R.E AQA
  Sociology AQA
  Psychology AQA
Maths Entryl Level AQA
  Further Maths (Level 2) AQA
  GCSE Maths AQA
MFL French AQA
  Spanish AQA
PE Sport and Fitness BTEC Pearson/Edexcel
  PE Core (all students) No specification as this is not an examined subject
  PE GCSE Pearson/Edexcel
  Personal Development No specification as this is not an examined subject
Psychology Psychology AQA
Science Biology GCSE AQA
  Chemistry GCSE AQA
  Combined Science Trilogy GCSE AQA
  Physics GCSE AQA