Years 7 - 9 (Key Stage 3) Curriculum

St Gregory’s offers a broad, diverse and balanced curriculum that begins in the Lower School and enables students to make appropriate and fully-informed choices as their learning progresses into the Upper School and the Sixth Form. These choices include subjects for the English Baccalaureate at GCSE and the facilitating subjects in the Sixth Form required by the top universities. 

Subjects in Years 7 - 9

The following subjects are taught in Lower School: 

• Religious Education 

• Science 

• Maths 

• English 

• Computing 

• PSHE 

• Physical Education/Games 

• Modern Foreign Language (French or Spanish) 

• Geography 

• History 

• Art 

• Music 

• Technology 

From Year 7, we stream across a number of subjects across KS3. An emphasis on reading skills, KS2 SATs and literacy will inform ability groupings for English, RE, MFL, History, Geography and Music. Assessment outcomes in Maths at KS2 and CATs will inform groupings for Maths and Science. PE and Technology groupings will be mixed and Tutor groups will remain independent of streaming. The allocation of students to streams is regularly reviewed and changes made as appropriate. 

Further information about the Key Stage 3 curriculum, including detailed course outlines for each of the separate subjects, can be found on the Subjects page of our school website. 

Home Learning in Key Stage 3

Each subject will set one homework task per week. However, there may be occasions where a longer project may be assigned as homework which will cover two to three weeks. Guided time per subject is 20-30 minutes, with 60-90 minutes in total per evening. Students are also taught how to use their time for Independent Learning of the topics they study, in order to extend their learning through their own reading/research.