The KS3 Curriculum Intent and Implementation
Our Key Stage 3 curriculum is intended to exceed the KS3 National Curriculum, whilst providing a smooth transition between the knowledge and skills covered in KS2 with those required at KS4.
We want our curriculum to be academically aspirational, implemented in an environment that inspires enjoyment and commitment to learning as well as developing students’ confidence to learn and resilience to overcome challenges and setbacks. Our curriculum provides our students with access to STEM subjects and extra-curricular activities that empowers them to be confident to succeed. Lessons in Drama, Music, Art and PE complement classroom-based subjects and provide Key Stage 3 students with a varied diet of learning experiences. As some of our students come to us not having yet met national standards at KS2, and others having exceeded expectations, our curriculum is also focused on identifying and closing gaps in knowledge of some students from KS2 whilst deepening others’ knowledge and passion for each subject, old and new.
We also appreciate the value of becoming literate and numerate citizens, so our curriculum also aims to develop a high level of literacy and numeracy, for all of our students, through a culture of reading for pleasure and inspiring maths lessons.
Subjects at KS3 are allocated the following curriculum time:
| Allocated curriculum Time (Hours a Fortnight) | |||
| Subject |
Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
| English |
8 |
8 |
8 |
| Maths
|
7 |
7 |
7 |
| Science |
6 |
6 |
6 |
| PE |
4 |
4 |
4 |
| DT |
4 |
4 |
4 |
| Art |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Music |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Drama |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| MFL |
4 |
4 |
4 |
| History |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| Geography |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| RE |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Computing |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| PSHE |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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Click here for Subject Curriculum Booklets.
Click here for PSCHE at Ansford.