Key Stage 3

Our vision for learning at Chelsea Academy is simple but it encapsulates all we do. It builds on the Church of England's own vision for education and ensures our students are fully prepared for life in the 21st century.

Our Curriculum Intent

Our Curriculum Intent draws on the following:

Throughout their time at Chelsea Academy each student will flourish, benefitting from a rich academic curriculum and strong pastoral care. Learning will excite, inspire and challenge. Beyond the taught curriculum there will be many opportunities for students to develop their interests and passions. We aspire to acknowledge and embrace vulnerability. All students will develop: resilience, wisdom, hope and skills with which to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.

Our intent is that the Key Stage 3 curriculum will challenge and inspire students throughout the 3 years. We aspire to be primary receptive so that students are further stretched and challenged as they start Year 7. Throughout their 3 years of study, students will develop a firm foundation that enables them to flourish and progress into Key Stage 4. Our Key Stage 3 offer is broad and balanced, inspires a rich love of learning and the accumulation of knowledge. There is an emphasis on developing reading, writing and oracy skills across all subjects. Each subject is delivered in a modular format, based on the national curriculum and carefully sequenced to build on prior learning. Students demonstrate their learning through key summative assessment points; this ensures that their knowledge and understanding is secure and that key knowledge can be transferred to long term memory. Regular formative assessment and incisive feedback, often in the form of low stakes retrieval tests, allows for swift identification of learning gaps or misconceptions and crucially for  knowledge to be embedded. Students have the confidence to be fluent in their use of knowledge, progressing through Key Stage 3 into Key Stage 4.

At Key Stage 4 our intent remains the same but with the additional rigour of ensuring students extend their retrieval and retention skills and can apply knowledge successfully in their GCSE examinations.

Curriculum Overviews

Curriculum overviews map key content and skills back from Year 13 to Year 7 to create curriculum overviews. These documents will be uploaded onto the website so that they are permanently available for students and parents. 

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