Key stage 3
Key Stage Three Curriculum
At Brownedge St Mary’s, our pupils in Key Stage Three experience a broad and balanced curriculum allowing them to extend their knowledge and understanding, as well as skills, in a range of academic, artistic, creative and sporting subjects and activities. Through offering a diverse subject offer, pupils make substantial and sustained progress where they are engaged, challenged and inspired to learn as they move through their school life.
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To ensure a smooth transition between Key Stages 3 and 4, and to support our children in their academic pathways, we have developed a bespoke Pathways process. Pupils choose ONE of their GCSE option choices in Year 8 and a further TWO options choices in Year 9. As a result of their choice in Year 8, pupils study a Key Stage three curriculum across all subjects in Year 9 with one GCSE subject. This ensures that pupils continue to experience a broad and rich curriculum across a variety of subjects whilst allowing them to build a strong foundation and experience to make more informed choices in the future. The decision to follow this hybrid model occurred as a result of a consultation process to move the time our pupils enter their GCSE years from Year 8 to Year 9 and extend their Key Stage 3 curriculum. In order to ensure parity between options chosen, all option choices will have the same numbers of hours allocated to them over their study.
| Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Education | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| English | 3.5 | 4 | 4 |
| Maths | 3.5 | 3 | 4 |
| Science | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Computing | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Expressive Arts (Art, Music, Drama) | 2.5 | 2 | 1 |
| Geography | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| History | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| Modern Foreign Languages (French & German) | 2 | 3 | 1.5 |
| Physical Education | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Technology (Design & Food) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| GCSE Option 1 | 2 |
Learning for Life (including Citizenship) - Each year group has 20 hours a year
