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Curriculum at Coombe Wood School
At Coombe Wood School, we strongly believe that all students should participate in a broad and academically challenging KS4 Curriculum. Curriculum breadth and rigour are critical at KS4, not only because it's imperative that students develop KS3 skills, but also to ensure that students can access the full range of post 16 options.
In addition to this, it's important that you and your child understand the following two elements of the KS4 Curriculum.
The EBacc (English Baccalaureate) is not actually a qualification in itself; it is the achievement of a set of subjects at GCSE that keeps young people’s options open for further study and future careers. The English Baccalaureate comprises achievement in English, Mathematics, Science, a Modern or Ancient Foreign Language, and a Humanities subject (History or Geography).
Progress 8 is a measure that describes the amount of progress made from each student’s starting points across a range of specified subjects. This is the main accountability measure for schools at Key Stage 4. It can be summarised in the diagram below:
Essentially, this means that all students must follow a curriculum which enables them to place qualifications in each of the Progress 8 “buckets”: English, Mathematics, any three other EBacc subjects and any three other “open group” subjects (these may be GCSEs or vocational qualifications). In order to make sure this is the case for all students, we ask all students to select at least two subjects from the EBacc subjects we offer at level 2, listed below:
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