The Key Stage 4 Curriculum is based on four principles, that it should be:

• broad
• balanced
• relevant
• personalised

It is broad so that pupils can experience a range of opportunities across the curriculum; balanced because it is unwise for pupils to narrow down their options before the age of 16; relevant to pupils’ individual needs and to the demands of a rapidly-changing world; and personalised so that the level and type of work are suited to the ability and learning style of each individual pupil. 

Over many years we have developed a curriculum with a clear set of aims. It rightly gives enhanced time to the core subjects of English and Maths, and also, as a Church School, to RE. The PE time recognises the importance of health and fitness in our lives. It is also right that everyone should study Science, and that, in our global community, nearly all pupils have the opportunity to become confident in a foreign language.  Within this framework, which reflects the new government’s plans for an “English Baccalaureate”, pupils can take between six and ten GCSEs according to their abilities.  The curriculum thus offers flexibility and individual choice within a guided structure.