Key Stage 4 Programme (Years 9 to 11)

Academic

The programme itself targets two aspects, the first being academic needs, which focus on core GCSEs needed for the future, these being:

• AQA English Language
• AQA English Literature (An inspector Calls, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, Power and Conflict Anthology)
• AQA Mathematics
• AQA Biology

Wellbeing

The second aspect focuses on welfare, wellbeing and building soft skills needed for success in the future. Dedicated lessons such as: Art; Team building; Self & Others; Warm up, all help to install confidence, self esteem, and confidence, which are fundamental components to health and wellbeing. Students will also focus on an ‘area’ each term with relation to how certain conditions impact their ability to perform: how does their breathing change if put on the spot; do they notice muscle tension when answering questions they are not sure of? By doing this students are opened up to themselves and can start to understand and deal with obstacles in different situations.

Our Classes

Our classes are small to cater for the needs of our students and help maximise success, both teachers and teaching assistants are available and we practise a soft, caring environment away from the large classroom environment where some students can be lost or become left behind in. Being a small scale provision, we cannot afford disruption and chaos, which is why this programme is not for your typical ‘naughty’ students who don’t want to learn, or go out of their way to gain attention.

Counselling

As part of this programme, we have a mandatory 5 sessions of counselling when students start to make sure that everything is where it should be emotionally, after the mandatory sessions, there may be an option to continue if nessessary. Irrespective of the counselling, we can still offer somebody experienced for students to talk to if needed throughout the course, and we have a trained counsellor as one of our teachers.