Students begin Key Stage 3 when they start Year 7. At Unity, we run a unique multi-discipline curriculum called iXL. This gives students the opportunity to work on extended projects in a variety of different ways, from a variety of different angles. Find out more about our exciting iXL curriculum from the iXL link in this section.
Students in Year 7 also follow a curriculum pathway so best support, develop and stretch them academically. These curriculum pathways offer different diets of subjects to students.
Students in years 7,8 and 9 also have CSI lessons each week (Core Skills Investigations) where they work on projects to develop their functional English, Maths and ICT skills.
In Year 9, students embark upon our early options programme to begin to become ‘architects of their own curriculum’. They are able to choose more of what they enjoy, and less of what they don’t. In addition to these choices, Year 9 students choose from our Interest Module curriculum each Half Term. Here they have the chance to follow short courses in a wide variety of extraordinary courses ranging from Forensics to Knitting, Jack the Ripper to Explosive Science experiments or even extra Arts sessions.
The Key Stage 3 curriculum is designed to be stimulating, relevant and flexible so that students see purpose behind what they are studying and we are able to respond to the world around us. We aim to prepare all students, regardless of ability, for the more complex choices they will face when they prepare to enter Key Stage 4 and eventually leave Unity at the end of Year 11.