Curriculum

Parent Guide

We have created a document for parents to refer to which focuses on curriculum and other areas of school life that your child may experience. Please see the document on the link below:

Parent Quality of Education Booklet

Curriculum Principles

Our curriculum principles are very clear. We want to ensure that:

  • There is clear student progress over the 7 year curriculum plan
  • There is a focus on depth before breadth, with learning time maximised in all subjects
  • There is targeted support and additional challenge to ensure all students make at least national rates of progress
  • There is support for all Year 7 students as they begin their time at secondary school

Curriculum Structure

  • The curriculum is planned in a coherent manner ensuring it meets legal requirements and embraces cross-curricular themes and cross-curricular skills, in particular, those of literacy and numeracy
  • The development of students’ personal and social skills and their spiritual, moral and cultural development are addressed specifically through discrete lessons once every half term, retreat days for each year group, residential trips, Acts of Worship, CAIG as well as permeating the whole curriculum. Students in Year 7 and 8 have Personal Development lessons within their two -week timetable.

We have a very broad KS3 Curriculum which meets all of the national curriculum requirements. This is taught over a two-week timetable with 25 lessons a week. The table below shows how those hours are distributed:

English6History3Drama3
Maths6Geography3Music3
Science5MFL4PE4
RE5Art3Technology / ICT4
Personal Devt1

a) In Years 9-11, students study a broad range of core of subjects including R.E., English Language, English Literature, Maths, Science (this is studied as three individual subjects), Personal Development, P.E and I.T. All of these subjects, excluding P.E, Personal Development and I.T, are studied at GCSE level.

b) Students are also able to express a preference for further subjects via the Options Program, as this allows them to support their individual interests and aspirations.

c) The Option Pathways are put together to ensure that students are offered access to the 4 areas of entitlement (the arts, design and technology, humanities and modern foreign languages). The English Baccalaureate subjects are encouraged as a broad experience but it is acknowledged that they are not suitable for all students.

d) In response to a student’s individual needs, during KS4, our school may also:

  • allow a student to participate in extended work-related learning;
  • allow a student with exceptional interest/ability to take more than one subject from a curriculum area
  • allow a student making significantly less progress than other students of his/her age to consolidate his/her learning and progress across the curriculum.

(Decisions about any of the above will only be made after discussion with the student and the parent/carer).

This is taught over a two week timetable with 25 lessons a week. The table below shows how those hours are distributed across each year group:

EnglishMathsScienceICTREPEOption AOption BOption COption DPersonal Devt
Year 977915444441
Year 1088915244441
Year 1188915244441

In Years 12-13, students are able to select from a range of Level 3 subjects which are taught at Christ the King.  Each subject is allocated 9 taught hours and an additional 5 hours of Directed Independent Study.

The qualifications delivered are designed to allow students the maximum possible opportunity to progress towards Higher Education, Level 4 Apprenticeships or paid employment.

Students follow a general Religious Education program and engage in a variety of enrichment activities. They also follow a Personal Development programme which they undertake on a fortnightly basis.