Target Setting and Action Planning
The school attaches great importance to supporting students and encouraging individuals to achieve their full potential. Student target setting and action planning emphasises the importance of setting sights high.
Students sit Cognitive Abilities Tests during their first term at the school. The results are not given to parents but are used, together with Key Stage 2 results and Entrance Test scores, to provide an indication of an individual’s current attainment in a range of areas against which her progress can be measured. At the end of Year 8 students complete the National Tests in Mathematics and in Year 9 English and Science, together with the school’s internal tests and assessments. These provide the base line for assessing potential and setting challenging but realistic targets for GCSE.
From Year 7 onwards staff work with students and support them in reviewing progress, identifying targets for development and planning how to achieve them.
In Year 12 and Year 13 students work closely with their subject tutors, their form tutors and the Director of Sixth Form to set targets, review progress and develop action plans. They are encouraged to work independently and to aim high in their ambitions for the future.
Curriculum Structure
KS3
Students study a broad range of subjects in Year 7-9.
Art |
Geography |
Music |
Study Skills (Year 7) |
Biology |
History |
PE |
RS |
Chemistry |
ICT |
Physics |
Technology |
English |
Mathematics |
PSE |
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In Year 7 they study French. In Year 8 they start a second language, German or Italian.
The Mathematics KS3 National Curriculum Test is taken in Year 8 to extend the opportunities in KS4 in Mathematics.
KS4
Core Studies
English & English Literature |
2 full GCSEs |
Mathematics |
1 full GCSE and additional higher level study (e.g. 0GCSE/FSMQ) |
Science: Biology
Chemistry
Physics |
2 full GCSEs
(all students study all 3 sciences leading to a double award certificate) |
Religious Studies |
1 GCSE (started in Year 9) |
Personal and Social Education |
not certificated |
Physical Education |
not certificated and available as a GCSE option |
ICT |
BCS Level 2 Certification and available as a GCSE option |
Students choose four options subjects, of which at least one must be a language, from the list given below, to make up their complement of 10 GCSE subjects. All the option subjects are full GCSEs. The arrangement of the subjects into blocks varies from year to year, depending on the needs of each year group.
Art
Food Technology
French
Geography
German
History
ICT Italian Music PE Product Design
Systems and Control
Textiles |