Departments
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. In addition we will have an Arts Option for Year 8 to immerse pupils in their favourite Arts subject and promote deep learning, alongside our Rugby and Netball Academies where we foster our young people in a competitive and high achieving sports environment.
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.
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, business languages 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.
For further information about our curriculum please contact the Assistant Head teacher
(Mr Ian Aindow) with responsibility for 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 |
KS3 – Year 7
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | French | Geography | History |
| Maths | Microsoft Studies | PE | RE |
| Resilience | Science | ||
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Creative Options, 2 from: |
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| Art | Computer Science | Cooking | Dance |
| Design | Drama | Media and Film | Music |
KS3 – Year 8
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | French | Geography | History |
| Maths | Media in Context | PE | RE |
| Science | |||
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Creative Options, 2 from: |
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| Art | Computer Science | Cooking | Dance |
| Design | Drama | Media and Film | Music |
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Applied Resilience Options*, 1 from: |
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| 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 |
| Pre-Options, 3 from: | ||||
| Art | Business Studies | Child Development | Computer Science | |
| Crewing | Dance | Design Technology | Drama | |
| Film Studies | Food and Nutrition | Spanish | Geography | |
| Health and Social Care | History | 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
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | Maths | PE | Science |
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GCSE Options, 4 from: |
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| Art | Business Studies | Child Development | Computer Science |
| Crewing | Dance | Drama | Film Studies |
| Food technology | French | Geography | Graphics |
| Health and Social Care | History | Media Studies | Music |
| Photography | Physical Education | Religious Education | Resistant Materials |
| Sociology | Spanish | Textiles | |
KS4 – Year 11
| All pupils study: | |||
| English | Maths | Science | |
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GCSE Options, 4 from: |
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| Art | Business Studies | Child Development | Computer Science |
| Crewing | Drama | Economics | Food technology |
| Geography | Graphics | Health and Social Care | History |
| Media Studies | Music | Photography | Physical Education |
| Religious Education | Resistant Materials | Sociology | Textiles |
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 |