Bradley Stoke Community School

 KS3 Curriculum

 

Throughout KS3 we aim to ensure our students meet the highest expectations by training students to develop the cognitive tools to be able to think like geographers, mathematicians, artists, scientists, and historians etc… We cover the National Curriculum across Key Stage 3.

Currently, all Y9 students study English, maths, science, religious studies, P.E and PSHE. In addition to these subjects, they study four additional subjects (at least one of which is EBacc) which were chosen at the end of Year 8. Please see the Pathways page for more information.

From experience we know that students do best when they enjoy their learning and follow their passions. Based on this we have developed our GCSE pathways process to enable students to have free choice and study the subjects that are of most interest to them. Students study at least one EBacc subject.

Although current Y9 students are in GCSE option groups, the focus of the Y9 curriculum is to act as a foundation year to explore and embed disciplinary knowledge and skills to enable them to thrive in KS4. No explicit GCSE content is taught until Easter.

After a review of our curriculum offer and to align to the Olympus curriculum guidelines in order to share best practice and assessment, we are moving to a three year model, which will be fully in place for all students by September 2024.

 

Subject

Time allocations per fortnight

Curriculum Information

English

6 hours

English Info

Maths

6 hours

Maths info

Science

5 hours

Science info

Geography

3 hours

Geography info

History

3 hours

History info

Religious Studies

3 hours

CRS info

Product Design (all forms)

3 hours

PD info

Food info

Computing

3 hours

Computing info

Art

3 hours

Art info

Drama

3 hours

Drama Info

Music

3 hours

Music info

Physical Education

4 hours

PE info

Languages

4 hours

German info

French info

Personal, Social and Health Education

1 hour

PSHE info

Enrichment

2 hours

Enrichment info

Tutorial and Assembly

2 hours and 20 minutes

T and A info