Curriculum

CURRICULUM INTENT
• Provide a broad and balanced education for all students.
• Enable studentsto develop knowledge and acquire skills which build and support them during their journey through school and beyond.
• Provide meaningful assessment and feedback for students, enabling them to make progress.
• Support students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development; as well as their understanding of British Values.
• Support students’ physical and mental health and wellbeing.
• Promote a positive learning culture.
• Ensure equal access to learning, with high expectations for every student and appropriate levels of challenge and support.
• Provide flexibility in subject choice at KS4 & KS5 that maximise students’ love of learning, personal aspirations and progression.
• Develop students equipped to progress to higher education or employment, and thrive outside of the school environment.
• Enhance and enrich students’ academic qualifications with a wide range of extra-curricular and timetabled opportunities.
• Enable studentsto develop the Parkstone values of courage, commitment and compassion.
• To support pupils’ development in ways which will foster security, confidence and independence.

Years 7, 8 and 9

A broad curriculum which supports students in all areas of development, encourages engagement both in and beyond the classroom, challenges them academically and builds a diverse bank of knowledge for their next steps. (DECK)

Years 10 and 11

A flexible choice of options to maximise students’ love of learning as they start to develop a deeper knowledge and build on skills from Key Stage 3; alongside opportunities and support to prepare them to succeed in the 21st Century.

Years 12 and 13

Outstanding academic delivery paired with a wide range of opportunities to enhance and enrich students’ school experience, enabling them to excel in their journey beyond Parkstone.