ST JAMES

We have designed Year 9 as a transition or gateway year, where students begin building the knowledge for GCSE in their chosen option subjects but continue to have access to as broad a range of subject disciplines as possible through a year-long cross-curricular extended study taught in a carousel. History, Geography, Art, Music and Drama therefore continue to be taught to all students in Year 9 regardless of options choices... Our curriculum vision is underpinned by an understanding of the difference between content (knowledge), skills and concepts. Once students understand the key concepts or big questions that underpin each subject discipline, they are able to contextualise their learning and apply their knowledge in a more sophisticated way, enabling them to become ‘experts' in each subject. Therefore, teachers have worked to design a curriculum which combines all of these features and allows students to layer their knowledge over time, returning to the foundational concepts over..

Primary location: Colindale United Kingdom