The headline recommendations for the school curriculum review are already embedded in The Henry Beaufort school curriculum and extracurricular offer.
We welcome the review’s emphasis on increasing Triple Science entries. Here at the Henry Beaufort School, well over 60% of each year group from Year 9 upwards already take this pathway. Our specialist science team are delighted to see these GCSE qualifications recognised in the review.
We have a core enrichment programme through our Cultural Capital days and an exceptionally strong and diverse extracurricular offer. Our Personal Development Days already cover citizenship, cyber safety and financial planning as part of our commitment to developing wider life skills.
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Expressive Arts has always been at the heart of our curriculum and extra-curricular offer, and the team are already thinking ahead to our next whole school production at the Theatre Royal in Winchester. We are extremely pleased to see a renewed emphasis on these subjects within the review as they offer such valuable pathways for significant numbers of our students.
We are also pleased to read the acknowledgement of a need for greater diversity ‘allowing more children to see themselves in the curriculum’, that will ensure that resources provided by exam boards and wider education providers represents ‘the diversity that makes up our modern society’.
Regarding the new oracy framework, our own school improvement priority for the last two years has been oracy with this year a focus on reading, and writing frameworks and we are working with students as well as colleagues on this focus.
Finally, we are reassured by the commitment to reduce exam time for Year 11 students by ‘at least 10%’. We are very aware of the stress and pressure our young people face in their final summer of exams, and any attempt to alleviate this is most welcome.
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