Curriculum Information
The school week consists of 50 lessons (of 60 minutes each) timetabled over a two week period. In Year 7 these 25 lessons are broken down as below.;
Subject | Periods/two week |
English | 8 |
Maths | 8 |
Science | 6 |
History | 3 |
Geography | 3 |
RE | 2 |
Art | 2 |
Music | 2 |
Drama | 2 |
Dt and Computing | 4 |
PE | 5 |
PSHE | 1 |
French | 2 |
Spanish | 2 |
Design and Technology are taught on a "carousel" with Computing. Students are in groups and rotate during the year from Food Technology to Design Technology to Computing.
PSHE is Personal Social Health Education and is taught by Form Tutors
In Year 7 we also have a small Transition class. They are taught in a small class with a reduced curriculum, focussing on Literacy and Numeracy.
In addition, students will have an assembly and a pastoral program during registration each week.