Key Stage 3 covers Years 7 to 9 when students are aged from 11 to 14 years-old. The Key Stage 3 Curriculum provided by schools must ensure a smooth transition from primary school and provide a firm foundation for education after the age of 14.
There are a number of subjects which provide a framework for ensuring that students have access to a diverse, ambitious and creative curriculum.
The curriculum should be taught in ways that enable all children to experience the satisfaction that comes through successfully meeting a challenge.
The programmes of study can be modified by teachers to ensure the provision of an inclusive curriculum for all their students.
Flexibility can be provided by:
- reviewing the balance of curriculum time allocations to different areas of learning in light of pupils' needs
- tailoring the content of lessons to pupils' learning styles and needs throughout the Key Stage
- creating different pathways within a Year or across the Key Stage to meet the needs of different groups of pupils.
Subjects
- Art
- design and Technology
- Drama
- English
- French
- Geography
- History
- ICT
- Mathematics
- Modern Foreign Languages
- Music
- Physical Education
- Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship
- Religious Education
- Science
- Work-related Learning and Careers Education
Key Skills
Subject knowledge is used to:
- Communicate effectively through speaking, listening, reading, writing, through visual and numerical information and through the arts
- Create texts, presentations, compositions, artwork, products and solutions to problems
- Understand and think critically about information, whether numerical, statistical, graphic, written, spoken or expressed physically or through the arts
- Reason and evaluate, process information efficiently and critically, ask questions, think creatively, with appreciation of the provisional nature of truth claims
- Participate in meaningful physical and cultural activities
- Develop understanding and respect for the diversity of human experience
Digital technology should be used in the service of these aims when appropriate, in ways that are safe, effective and efficient.
Key dispositions and attitudes
- Willingness to work hard to improve own learning and performance
- Ability to work both in a team and independently
- Desire to think critically and to search after truth, seeking awareness of both one's own biases and those of others in a spirit of intellectual humility, curiosity and constructive criticism
- Positive mindset and engagement with learning and physical activity, both within and beyond the classroom
- Respect, tolerance, empathy and compassion towards others
