Key Stage 3 Curriculum
Each of key stage 3’s concepts arch over each their half-term enquiries. Each enquiry has a question which students work towards answering in as much detail demonstrating their knowledge and understanding of what has been taught during the half term enquiry. Key Stage 3’s enquiry questions are:
- How do we know about the people we live with?
- How are people’s rights effected by illness?
- How do countries depend on each other to make change?
- How have people been treated unfairly?
- How can we look after our planet?
- How has Britain been influenced by conflict?
These have been chosen carefully as they will offer our students the opportunity to think deeply about their place and role both in their local community and the wider world.
Key Stage 3’s 6 chosen concepts are:
- Identity & Diversity
- Human Rights
- Globalisation and Interdependence
- Social Justice and equity
- Sustainable development
- Peace and development
These concepts were taken from Oxfam’s Global Curriculum.
Our half-termly enquiries are cross-curricular and have reading at the heart of their enquiry, with a focused text. We ensure that our students have relevant, broad, balanced and rich experience to gain knowledge and skills to make them lifelong learners (concepts and enquiries are mapped out to ensure that a range of KS3 National Curriculum objectives are being covered).
Through our enrichment offer, we plan for a number of these days to be linked to our enquiry and/or concept alongside providing experiences and activities which our students may not have had before. Through Key Stage 3’s enrichment offer they will develop their determination, pride and ambition.
Curriculum Journey
Key Stage 3 Text Books
People Around Us
Fight Back inspires young readers to find their own voice and to have the courage to be true to themselves and to speak out.
Slave Trade
Born in what is now Nigeria in 1745, Olaudah Equiano’s peaceful childhood was brought to an abrupt end when he was captured and enslaved aged 11. He spent much of the next eight years of his life at sea, seeing action in the Seven Years’ War.
Black Death
A historical novel set at the time of the Plague in 1966, based on a survival story of three children in Yorkshire.
Our Planet
Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge.
Africa
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid.
World War I
A gripping story about life back home after world war one. Thirteen-year-old Joe Henry tricked his way into the army to bring his father home, but fighting in the Great War has been tougher than he could have ever imagined.
Curriculum Celebration
