As well as offering breadth and balance, the curriculum in the secondary department is sufficiently differentiated to give all pupils the opportunity to achieve external accreditation at the end of Key Stage 4.

For some pupils this means the new entry level qualifications (certificate of Achievement), and for others the opportunity to pass a range of GCSEs in the following subjects:

English Language
Mathematics
Single and Dual Award Science
Art
D & T Resistant Materials
D & T Food
I.C.T.
R.S
Drama
Humanities

The secondary department has pupil cohorts grouped on ability and pupil progression routes can best be appreciated by looking at the chart below.

School Year	Key Stage	Mainstream cohort	Hybrid curriculum	Additional special needs
After school		University / further education / work	Continuing education-GNVQ,NVQ, / work based training	Entry awards, diploma’s / work based programmes.
13	5	A levels, AS, Advanced GNVQs, diplomas	Range of vocational qualifications / GCSEs	Vocational qualifications, diploma’s, world of work taster courses
12	5 (post 16)
Post 16 options		college places/work based training/work
11	4	GCSE course s/ work experience	Entry level awards / some GCSEs / work experience	Entry/pre entry awards ASDAN lifeskills
10	4
Options
9	3 (transition)	SAT tests	Teacher Assessments
8	3	Broad and balanced national curriculum	Broad and balanced well differentiated curriculum	Specialised SEN Curriculum
7	3

There are either 2 or 3 classes in each year which follow 1 of 2 or 3 curriculum pathways.

The Mainstream and hybrid curricula are very much like that of a high school and pupils follow the National Curriculum with the exception of a modern foreign language which is replaced by reading in the timetable. Pupils are assessed throughout the Key Stage and appropriate individual pupil targets are set.

The Special Educational Needs Curriculum

Some of our secondary pupils have additional and complex needs and need a personalised curriculum to help them progress. This pupil cohort is taught by teachers of the deaf with additional qualifications in a range of special needs. Visits outside of school are used as a stimulus for theme based learning and as a way of promoting social and emotional development as well as linguistic and cognitive development.

GCSE Results 2009	Grades
Maths			3D	2E	2F
Science	3B	3C	3D
ICT	3B	2C
English		1C	4D
Art		4C
D&T Resistant Materials		3C
D&T Food		1C	1D	2E
RS		1C		2E	1F
Drama		1C	2D