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Our Curriculum
We constantly seek new and engaging innovations for our curriculum, the curriculum includes our high impact Resilience Curriculum, where we challenge our Year 7 to be the most resilient learners they can be. alongside our Rugby and Netball Academies where we foster our young people in a competitive and high achieving sports environment.
The Aspire curriculum will have one period a week in Year 7 and Year 9 for the delivery of to build on work already done in Key Stage 3 with the Resilience and Contextual Curriculums. It will encourage students to explore the possibilities available to them in terms of careers, life experiences and teach them about how they can contribute to their communities as well as influence the world they live in, and that future generations will live in.
Aspiration is the ability to dream and set goals for the future while being inspired in the present to reach those dreams.
In Year 8 and 9, our Applied Resilience Curriculum offer includes Skiing, Computer Design and Fashion Design amongst others; all subjects delivered in school time and offered by our dedicated teaching staff, who have a passion for something beyond the normal curriculum.
Year 9 pupils have the opportunity to study pre-options with the aim of engaging, inspiring and up-skilling students so that they are enthusiastic about their option choices and prepared for success.
In Year 10 and 11, pupils focus on the core, but choose from the widest range of options subjects that we can give them, thus giving them a broad base of experiences on which to make informed choices for post 16. Students will sit one of their option subjects in Year 10 and then re-opt for another subject in Year 11.
We are also developing our Sixth Form Curriculum to include tangible pathways into both academic and vocational degree subjects, the world of work or higher level apprenticeships. Our vocational pathways will include relevant work related learning opportunities such as sports leadership and child care, whilst our more academic pathways will benefit from our developing links with high quality Russell Group Universities.
Our curriculum is highly innovative and aspires to meet the demands of learners in the 21st Century; as such we need engaging, inspirational, motivated individuals to meet the demands of our curriculum.
 Art and Design Textiles |
 Modern Foreign Languages |
 History |
 Geography |
 Religious Studies |
 Art and Design |
 Business Studies |
 Food Preparation and Nutrition |
 Graphic Design |
 Resistant Materials |
 Sociology |
 English |
 Health & Social Care |
 ICT & Computing |
 Mathematics |
 Drama |
 Dance |
 Music |
 Physical Education |
 Science |
 Media |
Year 9 into 10 Options Booklet 2020/2021
Year 1o into 11 Options Booklet 2020/2021
KS3 – Year 7
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | French | Geography | History |
| Maths | Science | PE | RE |
| Resilience | Art | Computer Science | Design and Technology rotation |
| Dance, Drama
and Music rotation |
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KS3 – Year 8
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | French | Geography | History |
| Maths | Media in Context | PE | RE |
| Science | |||
| Art | Performing Arts Rotation | Cooking | Design and Technology Rotation |
| Applied Resilience Options*, 1 from: | |||
| Biking | Boxing | Cake Decorating | Cooking |
| Costume and Makeup Design | Fashion Illustration | Graphical Design | Horse Riding |
| Netball | Painting and Drawing | Performance Company | Photoshop and Photography |
| Piano Lessons | Pixar Animation | Rock Band | Rock Climbing |
| Rugby | Skiing | Video Game Design | Water Sports |
*Applied resilience options are subject to change and depend on pupil interest/ staff availability
KS3 – Year 9
| All pupils study: | ||||
| English | Maths | PE | Science | French |
| Geography | History | |||
| Pre-Options | ||||
| Art | Business Studies | Child Development | Computer Science | |
| Performing Arts | Dance | Design Technology | Drama | |
| Film Studies | Food and Nutrition | Media Studies | Music | |
| Physical Education | Religious Education | Sociology | ||
| Applied Resilience Options*, 1 from: | ||||
| Biking | Boxing | Cake Decorating | Cooking | |
| Costume and Makeup Design | Fashion Illustration | Graphical Design | Horse Riding | |
| Netball | Painting and Drawing | Performance Company | Photoshop and Photography | |
| Piano Lessons | Pixar Animation | Rock Band | Rock Climbing | |
| Rugby | Skiing | Video Game Design | Water Sports | |
*Applied resilience options are subject to change and depend on pupil interest/ staff availability
KS4 – Year 10 and 11
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | Maths | PE | Science |
| Either | History | Or | Geography |
| GCSE Options: | |||
| Art | Business Studies | Child Development | Computer Science |
| IT | Dance | Drama | |
| Food technology | French | Geography | Graphics |
| Health and Social Care | History | Media Studies | Music |
| Photography | Physical Education | Religious Education | Resistant Materials |
| Sociology | Spanish | Textiles | |
Students take one Option at the end of Year 10 and one Option at the end of Year 11
GCSE List
AQA
| Art & Design | Child Development | English Language | English Literature | Home Economics, Food and Nutrition |
| History | MFL (Spanish and French) | Music | D&T Textiles | D&T Food |
| D&T Resistant Materials | D&T Graphics | Science (Applied) | Science Additional | Science Triple |
| Science Core | Sociology | Business Studies | Health and Social Care | Maths |
| Religious Studies | Computing | Drama | ICT | Geography |
| Health and Social Care | History | Physical Education | Food Preparation and Nutrition | Film Studies |