Curriculum Intent

Our curriculum - which includes the taught subject timetable as well as spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development, our co-curricular provision, and the ethos and ‘hidden curriculum’ of the school - is intended to spark curiosity and to nourish both the head and the heart.

Christine Counsell describes curriculum as 'content structured as narrative over time'. As a school, we can ensure that all our students experience a broad and ambitious curriculum that builds over time - week by week, term by term and year by year. In doing so, children bring their own experience into a shared story that enables them to leave our care with confidence and curiosity.

PSHCE is delivered to all students in dedicated calendared lessons each week and is enhanced by the tutor and assembly programmes that promote a knowledge of cultural capital and diversity. High quality careers advice and education is provided by specialist staff, and work-related learning is embedded within different subjects at various stages of a student’s education. Our careers programme helps to prepare students for further education, apprenticeships, and the workplace by providing a clear understanding of the world of work including the routes to jobs and careers that they might find engaging and rewarding. It supports them to acquire the self-development and career management skills they need to achieve positive employment destinations. This helps students to choose their pathways, improve their life opportunities and contribute to a productive and successful economy.

In addition to core subjects, we offer a broad range of subjects in line with the National Curriculum including History, Geography, Religious Studies, Computer Science, Modern Foreign Languages, Art, Drama, Music, Design Technology, Food Technology to all students in Key Stage 3. This is to ensure our ambitious curriculum remains broad and balanced for as long as possible, with an emphasis on the power of knowledge.

A Campion School Key Stage 3 student should be numerate and literate, in order to access the GCSE curriculum in all the subjects they will study at Key Stage 4. Our students take enjoyment from reading and will have been exposed to a variety of texts which challenge and inspire them.
By the end of Key Stage 3, students will be supported to make sensible, yet ambitious subject choices based on demonstrated strengths; supported by high expectations from the staff. They will have developed sufficient independence to take effective notes during their GCSE years and be able to organise their skills and knowledge from the start of their GCSE to optimise outcomes at Key Stage 4 and beyond.

The curriculum aims to promote valuable learning experiences in a range of subjects and is broad and balanced. Students can select up to four guided choice subjects to study alongside the core subjects of English Language, English Literature, Maths, double award Science (or separate Science) and PE. This broad and balanced two-year curriculum, with its emphasis on the power of knowledge and education with character prepares our students well for their GCSE exams and beyond.

A Campion School Key Stage 4 student will have developed the independence, resilience and character traits required to prepare them for a brilliant future. They will develop expertise in a range of subject specialisms which will enable them to make informed decisions as to what to study beyond Key Stage 4.

Campion School Sixth Form offers a broad post-16 curriculum. Our post-16 courses provide routes for students to achieve the desired grades/ subject content for Russell Group Universities.

A Campion School Key Stage 5 student can study independently and organise their own time effectively. They have the skills, resilience and character traits required to successfully achieve their ambitions at the best universities; colleges; in apprenticeships or work. They are proud to call themselves Campion School students and are leaders and role models within the school community. They develop a range of expertise through their subjects that enable them to excel at degree level.