Our School Curriculum Year 7


The school is preparing to introduce the new curriculum and is committed to ensuring our pupils are:


• Ambitions, capable learners • Enterprising, creative contributors • Ethical, informed citizens • Healthy, confi dent individuals


Year 7 in a secondary school is a particularly important occasion in a pupil’s school life, providing him or her with a new experience but also with fresh opportunities. On the basis of information received from the primary schools, supplemented by the results of standardised tests conducted early in the Michaelmas Term, pupils in each annual Year 7 intake are placed in one of six forms. There is an upper band of 4 forms and a middle band of two forms. This middle band will include any pupils within the intake having particular learning diffi culties. Specialised help in the development of skills in which they are underachieving is provided, in and through the School’s Additional Learning Needs Department and learning support programme.


It is a particular interest of the Assistant Headteacher and the Year 7 learning manager with responsibility for transition to liaise with the Primary Schools from which pupils come and to maintain contact with all forms in Year 7. Particular attention is paid to the progress of pupils in the fi rst term, to ensure proper allocation of pupils to classes, and to monitor progress at this critical stage in the pupils’ school life. Such progress is assessed by classwork, home learning activities and assessments, throughout each school term.


Ethos


The curriculum promotes the spiritual, moral and cultural development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.


Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8 and 9)


The school curriculum aims to provide breadth, balance and relevance for each of our pupils. In Year 7, pupils study Art, English, Modern Foreign Languages, Computer Science & Information Technology, Geography, History, Mathematics, Music, Personal and Social Education, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science, Design Technology and Welsh.


Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)


In Year 10, all pupils begin preparing for external examinations. The General Certifi cate of Secondary Education (G.C.S.E.) is a system of examinations with a scale of Grades A* to G.


At this stage, pupils pursue courses over a two year period, which must always include English Language, English Literature (most pupils), Mathematics, Numeracy, Physical Education, Double Award Science, Religious Education, Welsh and the Welsh Bac. At present the range from which other choices can be made includes Art, Business, Catering, Child Development, Design Technology (Product Design, Engineering), Fashion & Textiles, French, Geography, German, History, Information Technology and Computing,


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