Curriculum
Curriculum Intent
At Blaise High School our curriculum intends to provide students with the foundational knowledge required to allow them to become experts in each subject area, and to take them towards great KS4 results. The knowledge that we have selected and carefully sequenced is designed to give students the best possible chance of climbing their own personal mountains to the very best universities in the country or careers of their choosing. We focus on the delivery of powerful knowledge in subject areas, taught by subject experts in a rigorous and academic fashion.
Our enacted curriculum supports our intent, and we base our methods of teaching on cognitive science ensuring that our students can effectively retain the knowledge that we teach them. We do this through a consistent lesson structure, using the 'I, We, You' format, with a carefully curated toolbox of teaching techniques that teachers select from to ensure that students can participate and think hard about exactly the right thing at that moment in the lesson.
We constantly assess our children using cold call questioning, call and response, turn and talk, mini – whiteboards, multiple-choice questions and live marking. This gives teachers the data that they need to monitor a child's progress through the curriculum. We are relentlessly ambitious in what we teach our students as we know that where we raise the bar of expectation, students rise to meet it.
Our curriculum is not confined to lessons: our wider curriculum offer encompasses social times, character education; including our reading programme, PSHE and our enrichment programme. These wider experiences are intended to offer our students the necessary character development required to access any career path which they choose.
Our wider curriculum promotes both the school’s values, and British values, and enables students to develop deeply held passions and interests for the rest of their lives.
Students at Blaise High School are able to study the below subjects, please click on the subject area to view curriculum maps for them:
Personal Social Health Education
Modern Foreign Languages (French and Spanish)
If you have any further questions about curriculum, please email info@blaisehighschool.co.uk and an appropriate member of staff will respond to your request.