Key Stage 4 Overview

At King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys, we have designed our Key Stage 4 curriculum with our students’ learning at the centre. Our curriculum provides a broad and balanced education for all our students and offers them excellent opportunities to develop as individuals as well as learners. Our approach to teaching and learning supports our curriculum by ensuring that lessons build on prior learning and provide opportunities for guided and prolonged independent practice. 

We are proud that our curriculum is taught by specialist teachers with a deep knowledge of and a passion for their subject. We want our students to be ambitious and resilient so that they know how to learn for themselves. While teachers encourage, support and guide students, we also expect them to take responsibility for their own learning and to be able to work both independently and collaboratively, to relish challenges and to persevere when they find things hard.

The opportunities available to students at King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys are plentiful, and we offer our students a wide range of new and exciting experiences through extra-curricular activities that are designed to build Self-discipline, Teamwork, Resilience, Initiative, Vision and Endeavour. These are our core STRIVE values.

We greatly value the support that our parents offer, both to their son and to the school as a whole and we feel it is important for you know and understand the curriculum that your son will be following. The link below is to the curriculum booklets which are a comprehensive guide to the curriculum our students will study during Key Stage 4. It gives an overview of all the content covered for each of the subjects that they study, as well as the assessments that will take place. It also provides information on provision for students with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND), Careers Advice, Student Leadership opportunities and our extensive Outdoor Education programme.