Year 9

Caterham School is committed to providing a rigorous academic and intellectual education which will challenge and engage pupils, offer continuity and progression of learning to foster a life-long love of learning for its own sake and provide them with a secure foundation on which to continue into Higher Education and into the careers of their choice.

The curriculum is intended to give pupils experience in linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technological, human and social, physical, and aesthetic and creative aspects.

In the Senior School, in Key Stages Three and Four, the core curriculum of subjects provides the opportunity for pupils to acquire skills in speaking and listening, literacy and numeracy. These are further developed in their other subjects. Pupils have 40 periods per week (35 or 40 minute periods) below the Sixth Form.

From the Third Year (Year 9) an element of choice is introduced to enable pupils to explore those subjects more fully for which they have a natural enthusiasm and/or aptitude. In the Third Year, all pupils study the core curriculum of English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Philosophy and Theology, at least one Modern Language, PE and Games. Science is taught separately as Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This curriculum is supplemented by a choice of three further subjects from Latin, Greek, Modern Languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian), Art, 3D Design, Computer Science, Music and Drama. An options booklet is provided to help pupils and their parents to make informed choices.