KS4 and KS5 Options Evening
Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 Curriculum Guide
Welcome to our curriculum guide for Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5; this website will provide you with information about the curriculum offer available to you next year. We are very proud of the broad and balanced curriculum that we offer, and you will see that these principles received the full backing of the Ofsted team in our recent inspection, contributing to the ‘outstanding’ rating for leadership and management. In this guide, we offer you guidance on how best to make a choice so that you make the right decisions in selecting your preferred courses. We then provide specific details of the courses offered.
This page contains short presentations from our subject leads about each of the broad range of options open to you at Redborne as you consider the next steps in your educational journey.
If you wish to know more about a particular subject that we offer, please see visit the faculty close up page for the subject using the links below where you will find the individual video presentation.
FACULTY CLOSE UP LINKS
KEY STAGE 4 OPTION BLOCKS
Please note that the Key Stage 4 options form will be made available to you digitally via a Google Form sent to the student and, additionally, you will be notified by email when this happens. If you wish to know which options are available in which blocks, please see the Key Stage 4 blocking form below:
| Block A | Block B | Block C | Block D |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ebacc courses | |||
| Computer Science | French | Computer Science | Geography |
| French | Geography | German | German |
| Geography | History | History | History |
| History | Triple Science | Spanish | Latin |
| Triple Science | Triple Science | Spanish | |
| Triple Science | |||
| Non-Ebacc GCSE Courses | |||
| Business Studies | Art * | Business Studies | Art * |
| Design & Technology | Business Studies | Design & Technology | Business Studies |
| Food # | Dance | Drama | Design & Technology |
| Graphics * | Design & Technology | Film | Drama |
| PE + | Food # | PE + | Music |
| Philosophy & ethics | PE + | Philosophy & ethics | |
| Philosophy & ethics | |||
| GCSE-equivalent courses | |||
| Agriculture (NPTC) | Agriculture (NPTC) | Agriculture (NPTC) | Double Agriculture (NPTC) ! |
| Music (NCFE) | Child Development (CNAT) | Catering (WJEC) # | Catering (WJEC) # |
| Sport (CNAT) + | Child Development (CNAT) | Child Development (CNAT) | |
| Creative iMedia (CNAT) | |||
| Fashion (BTEC) * | |||
Notes:
* Students can only take one of Art, Graphics or Fashion
+ Students can pick either PE or Sport (CNAT), but cannot take both
! Students selecting Double Agriculture also need to select Agriculture in another block
# Student can pick either Food or Catering, but cannot take both
