Year 9 Curriculum Personalisation

In Year 8, students have the opportunity to tailor their curriculum of subjects through curriculum personalisation. 

The principles of this process are as follows:

• To ensure our curriculum is tailored and personalised to our students.
• To ensure our students have full exposure to a curriculum based around the KS3 National Curriculum. This is broad and ambitious, giving coverage and depth of as many subjects as possible.
• To ensure our students have the opportunity to personalise their curriculum and gain exposure to possible GCSE option subjects in Year 9.
• Final choices of subjects to study in Years 10 and 11 will take place later in Year 9.

In Year 9, all students will study the Core Curriculum:

English, Maths, Science, History, Geography, Spanish, Religious Studies, PE (non-examined) and Personal Development (non-examined).

In addition to this, students will choose three subjects (in preference order) from the following:

Art, Craft & Design, Business, Drama, Food Preparation and Nutrition, Health & Social Care, Design Technology, Creative iMedia (IT course), Computer Science, Media, Citizenship, Music, Sports Studies.

Finally, students will choose a ‘reserve’ subject to study should it not be possible for them to study one of their original choices.