The curriculum is innovative and personalised, built around students’ individual needs and based on their ability, capacity and potential. We are responsive to the national agenda thus ensuring that our students can compete robustly with all students nationally.
A Map of Learning for each subject can be found here. This shows what your child will be learning over the course of the year in each subject area.
The Holland Park School curriculum makes available to all students an ambitious, academically demanding, fulfilling programme of learning that is adapted to individual needs. We aim to deliver a curriculum that is broad, balanced and tailored in such a way as to secure opportunities for every student to excel. We aim for all students to value learning for its own sake; successful students are intellectually curious, inquisitive and are passionate about developing their knowledge and enhancing their skills and capacity. We aim to encourage this through exciting, dynamic lessons and by creating opportunities for discussion and independent thought. We consider the curriculum as the school’s most powerful tool for transformation, and we wish to offer students exposure to the best of that which has been thought, said and created. Seeking to develop students personally, we place value on extra-curricular experiences, for opportunities to perform musically and dramatically and for engagement in physical activity to support the health of our students in mind and body. We promote academic rigour by placing the EBacc at the heart of our curriculum for all students and provide support to ensure this is accessible to all. The National Curriculum forms the basis of our KS3 map of learning and is adapted creatively to suit the needs of our student body. At KS4, we structure our curriculum to enable students to immerse themselves in the deep study of subjects and to carry out public examinations over three years to support the mental wellbeing of students. A wide range of optional subjects are made available to students at KS4 with almost all courses leading to GCSE qualifications, with differentiated options for learners at all attainment levels. In the Sixth Form, all courses are A Level qualifications.
At Key Stage 3 students in Year 7, 8 and 9 study broadly with a slight emphasis on the EBacc subjects of English, mathematics, science, languages, history and geography. Languages includes Latin and it is studied by our ninety much able students. The importance of the wider curriculum is not forgotten and subjects such as PE, music, DT, RE, personal development, food technology, drama, computing and art thrive. Each year 24 students enter the school through art aptitude and such students contribute strongly to the high profile of art in school. Students are enriched by learning powerful, foundational knowledge across Key Stage 3 that builds into, and prepares them for, Key Stage 4 and 5 courses.
Our Key Stage 4 curriculum (Year 10 and 11) is diverse and personalised. Most students will, over two years, build up their English Baccalaureate, taking examinations when school considers them to be ready. In this manner, students establish a broad portfolio of subjects; usually in excess of 10 in total.
Our 16-19 study programme combines A Level qualifications with a range of other activities to meet the needs of each individual student and enable them to craft the most promising future possible. All our students have full time study programmes over 600 planned hours. All students follow a structured careers programme during their two years of study. This includes – but is not limited to – the following:
Any students who have not achieved a grade 4 in GCSE English and mathematics are timetabled in lessons to support their study of these examinations until they secure this grade.
Our teachers educate students with the aim of developing subject-mastery over time. All subject teams have their own pedagogical principles that underpin the structure of their lessons (available of subject team pages) but all teachers at Holland Park School are united by the following key features of teaching practice:
If you would like more information about our whole-school approach to the curriculum, you can contact: faye.mulholland@hollandparkschool.co.uk If you have questions about a particular subject, the Subject Leader’s email address is available on the subject specific pages opposite. Below is a list of the courses available to students.
Core:
Years 10 and 11 Options:
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