Curriculum Overview

Our Key Stage 4 curriculum offers the expected range of GCSE subjects as detailed below, but with two distinctive features. The first is the wide range of optional subjects that students can choose from. The second is that the bridgestar programme which continues from KS3. At KS4 bridgestar provides opportunities for students to access support to help keep them on track with their studies, by avoiding overload and stress, alongside additional numeracy and literacy support.

Our Key Stage 4 curriculum offers the expected range of GCSE subjects as detailed below, but with two distinctive features. The first is the wide range of optional subjects that students can choose from.  The second is that the bridgestar programme which continues from KS3.  At KS4 bridgestar provides opportunities for students to access support to help keep them on track with their studies, by avoiding overload and stress, alongside additional numeracy and literacy support.

Option subjects are studied for 3 periods per week.

For the 2021 academic year we are exploring the possibility of timetabling bridgestar students as a separate curricular strand at KS4.  This is so that we can ensure that all of our students are as well prepared as possible for the education or training programmes they will engage with once they have completed KS4 with us.  In a small number of cases we already adapt the curriculum offer made to individual students so that it becomes more personalised and is the best possible fit to meet their needs. A new bridgestar strand would extend this personalisation to a group rather than to individual students.