“Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good."
Ofsted Inspection Nov 2007
Key Stages
The National Curriculum is divided into four Key Stages.
Key Stages 3 and 4 relate to secondary schools.
Key Stage 3 covers lower secondary school: children aged 11 – 14; in Year 7-9.
Key Stage 4 covers upper secondary school: children aged 14–16; in Years 10-11.
Tanbridge House School follows the National Curriculum, and has added to that, subjects which we feel are essential for the rounded education of our students.
We operate a two week timetable with fifty, hour long, lessons per fortnight.
The numbers of lessons taught fortnightly for each subject at Key Stage 3 are:
Subjects |
Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
English |
6 |
6 |
6 |
Maths |
6 |
6 |
6 |
Science |
6 |
6 |
6 |
PE |
4 |
4 |
4 |
Design Technology |
4 |
4 |
4 |
History |
3 |
3 |
3 |
Geography |
3 |
3 |
3 |
French |
3 |
3 |
3 |
Spanish or German |
3 |
3 |
3 |
ICT |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Art |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Music |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Drama |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Religious Studies |
2 |
2 |
2 |
PSHE |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Key Stage 4:
Curriculum for Years 10 and 11
All students in Years 10 and 11 study a core curriculum of English, English Literature, ICT, Mathematics, PSHE, PE, RE & Science amounting to thirty core lessons a fortnight.
A further 20 lessons are filled from a variety of optional subjects.