Bradley Stoke Community School

 KS3 Curriculum

 

Throughout KS3 we aim to ensure our students meet the highest expectations by training students to develop the cognitive tools to be able to think like geographers, mathematicians, artists, scientists, and historians etc… We cover the National Curriculum across Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9). After a review of our curriculum offer and to align to the Olympus curriculum guidelines in order to share best practice and assessment, we moved to a three year model for Key Stage 3 which came into effect for all students in September 2024. 

Y9 students will choose their Key Stage 4 options with advice and guidance across the year. Please see the Pathways page for more information. From experience we know that students do best when they enjoy their learning and follow their passions. Based on this we have developed our GCSE pathways process to enable students to have free choice and study the subjects that are of most interest to them. Students study at least one EBacc subject. 

Subject

Time allocations per fortnight

Curriculum Information

English

6 hours

English

Maths

7 hours

Maths

Science

5 hours

Science

Geography

3 hours

Geography

History

3 hours

History

Religious Studies

3 hours

CRS

Product Design (all forms)

3 hours

PD 

Food

Computing

3 hours

Computing

Art

3 hours

Art

Drama

3 hours

Drama

Music

3 hours

Music

Physical Education

4 hours

PE

Languages

4 hours

German

French

Personal, Social and Health Education

1 hour

PSHE info

Enrichment

2 hours

Enrichment

Tutorial and Assembly

2 hours and 20 minutes

Tutor and Assembly