Academic Curriculum Overview and Intent

Our curriculum is designed to be rigorous, challenging, creative, inspiring, diverse, and wide-ranging, perfectly suited for the vibrant and eclectic range of students we teach. This approach is reflected in the continuing rise in our examination results and other indicators. We pride ourselves on meeting the needs of our students and motivating them to achieve through our rich and engaging curriculum.

Years 7 and 8: All students follow a broad and balanced curriculum that stretches and challenges while providing the scaffolding needed for them to reach their potential. As students progress, they gain increasing opportunity to personalise their curriculum, underpinned by high-quality provision in core subjects: English, Mathematics, and Science. Additionally, students study Modern Foreign Languages, Computing, Humanities (History, Geography, RE), a range of Technology subjects, Art, Drama, Dance, Music, and PE, ensuring a varied and stimulating daily diet of lessons.

Year 9: Students continue the Key Stage 3 curriculum and choose an 'Arts Elective' in Art, Dance, Drama, Music, or Music Technology, receiving two hours a week in their chosen option. This allows for a deeper, conceptual understanding and builds powerful, transferable knowledge and skills.

Years 10 and 11: All students follow the core curriculum and can specialise in an unrivalled range of GCSE and technical subjects. We offer a wide array of courses, enabling students to choose the most appropriate route for their needs, interests, or future career path.

Chorlton High School is built on and driven by core values, committed to enabling all our learners to become:

• SUCCESSFUL: Learners who gain deep and powerful knowledge in preparation for life; combining academic rigour, curiosity, and creative flair. They achieve academic standards of excellence, excelling nationally, and experience a rich, exciting curriculum that empowers powerful choices about future ambitions.
• CREATIVE: Learners who are imaginative, optimistic, and inventive; finding their voice to become effective communicators prepared for lifelong adaptability. They experience creative teaching that makes learning engaging, fosters independent thought, and builds confident citizens, embracing diverse and cutting-edge creative opportunities.
• HAPPY: Learners who are confident, resilient, well-rounded citizens; understanding the world’s communities and ready to discover their place in it. They are proud of their achievements and progress, with these successes celebrated, and develop positive, secure relationships to flourish and realise their powerful sense of potential.
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We enable our learners to develop as successful, creative, and happy young people by providing a curriculum which:

• Is broad and balanced; promoting character and the personal, social, physical, spiritual, moral, and cultural development of our students, preparing them for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of adult life.
• Ensures that students develop the essential skills in reading, writing, oracy, and numeracy.
• Gives students a full and rounded entitlement to learning.
• Fosters students’ creativity and develops essential skills, including independent learning skills.
• Promotes a healthy lifestyle.
• Inspires students to a commitment to learning which will last a lifetime.
• Promotes high standards in all learning and teaching.
• Promotes community cohesion and the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.