The Beaconsfield School
The Beaconsfield School Curriculum 2025-2026
Our school vision is to ensure every student realises their potential, through every member of our community having high aspirations for success, both within and beyond the classroom and our curriculum has been designed to ensure we meet our three core aspirations for all our students:
- Academic
- Ensure students gain the knowledge, skills and qualifications they require to progress onto further education, apprenticeships or employment.
- Character
- Develop confident, responsible and articulate young people who are well prepared for and can flourish in modern Britain.
- Community
- Develop students’ cultural literacy by fostering appreciation of diverse cultural influences. Encourage active participation in a wide range of cultural experiences including artistic, scientific, sporting, and more, while deepening knowledge of their own heritage, British democratic values, and global diversity.
Our curriculum is underpinned by our core values of Respect, Empathy, Hard work, Community, Responsibility: these values are woven into all facets of life at TBS and underpin decision-making.
Implementation
We have a broad and balanced curriculum, structured into 5 x 1 hour lessons per day over a two-week model.
Years 7 & 8
In Years 7 & 8 students participate in a range of subjects, embedding key skills and subject knowledge in the following: English, Maths, Science, French, Spanish, Geography, History, Religion, Philosophy & Ethics, Computing, PE, Art, Drama, Music and Design Technology.
In the Summer term of Year 8 students select 5 Option subjects to study in Year 9 alongside the core curriculum.
Year 9
In Year 9 students study the core curriculum curriculum of English, Maths and Science alongside their 5 chosen options. Option choices come from a range of subjects, with the current range offer including, but not limited to, Humanities, Languages, Business Studies, Computer Science, Technology, Art, Drama and Health and Social Care.
In the Summer term of Year 9 student select the 4 of their options that they would like to continue into Years 10 and 11.
Years 10 & 11
Students study the core curriculum alongside their final 4 options through to qualification at the end of Year 11.
In addition, Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) is taught via one lesson a week in Years 7 & 8 and via drop-down days in Years 9-11.
We also have a strong focus on literacy, recognising the importance of good literacy skills across all areas of life and fundamental to future success for our students. All subjects have a ‘responsive reading’ approach embedded within their curriculum, linking reading tasks to the topics being studied in order to expose students to high quality academic literature and broaden their vocabulary.
Please see the information under the Curriculum tab for the Year 8 Options process.
Years 12-13
We provide a broad and balanced curriculum to all of our students that goes beyond the academic qualifications obtained. The curriculum offer is informed by a number of aspects: the interests of TBS students, the local labour market, opportunities for student progression and staff expertise. Students are prepared for progression to the next level so that they leave school as confident young people can be successful in whatever they choose to do.
At Sixth Form students choose 3 main subjects and we offer courses in A Level, BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate and Level 3 Applied Qualifications. All qualifications are 2-year courses that complete in the summer term of the second year. This offers them a broad enough scope to meet the requirements for Higher Education and provides students with excellent depth of learning but also allows them to have capacity to engage in extra-curricular and leadership. Subjects are allocated 8 x 1-hour lessons per fortnight.
Our Sixth Form students provide excellent role models for the rest of the school and play a large part in promoting our TBS Core Values of respect, empathy, hard work, community and responsibility. Our Sixth Form students are encouraged to be involved in leadership opportunities in school, such as peer and academic mentoring, Head Team and Senior Prefect.
