Our aim is for our year 11 students to emerge from their period of  compulsory education as confident young adults; individuals with the self confidence borne of academic success and personal achievement and an awareness of self, strengths and weaknesses, together with the tools and work ethic to achieve their ambitions.

Students remain within their established forms for years 10 - 11. Setting is used for most subjects, depending on whether students are following higher or lower tier specifications. Form Tutors will encourage them to maintain their involvement in, or become involved with, extra-curricular activities in the interest of personal development and with a view to developing their cv for further education.

GCSE Options

Subject choices have to be made in the spring term of year 9 to allow for resource planning and timetabling. Most students will take 9 subjects  at GCSE. Our general advice is to continue with as broad a range as possible. Even those rare students who have a specific career in mind should be wary of over specialisation. Parents and students attend an ‘options evening' and form tutors, subject staff and the Careers Advisor are all available for advice and counselling. Firm choices must be in place by the commencement of the summer term.

There are 5 core subjects, which all students must take and 4 option blocks from which 4 further subjects are chosen. In addition all students follow an RE short course (half GCSE), which is examined in the summer of year10. This can be ‘converted' into a full GCSE following a further year of study and additional examination but this second year is not compulsory.

In addition to the year 7 - 9 curriculum subjects the following additional subjects are offered:-

Business Studies, Drama, German, P.E. and Media studies. Welsh is an extra-curricular, additional cost option.

Students follow modular GCSE courses for each of the sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) which allows for them to sit  one module from each of these in the summer of year 10.

Overseas students will take IGCSE in their own language and in English as an additional language.