For our middle school pupils, King's Magna brings an exciting taste of the opportunity that awaits them at GCSE and A Level. Being in Years 6 to 9 is the time to discover passions with a supportive team of specialist teachers to nurture budding talents and introduce the wealth of subject choices and enrichment activities on offer. Pupils in Year 6 and above select two lessons each week to pursue an academic, creative or sporting activity. The curriculum offers plenty of scope to try new things and we encourage them to make a free choice from the many available options, often discovering new passions along the way. This freedom to choose culminates in Year 9, where students can trial four potential GCSE subjects to pursue at QE College or QE Faculty.
King's Magna begins at Year 6, where students get a taste of an exciting curricular experience along with the familiarity and support they need as they prepare to move from Key Stage Two to Three. Our Year 6 students do not take SAT exams and are instead provided an enriching, topic based curriculum with internal tests for core subjects at the end of the year.
Key Stage Three opens doors to a whole new world of opportunity as students are given access to a broad array of fascinating new subjects and activities to explore. Lessons are held across the school grounds allowing access to specialist facilities like CAD machines in Design Technology and a dark room for Photography, opening students eyes to a wealth of options and potentially, new passions. As students' progress through the school, getting a taste for new subjects, more choices open to them, allowing more time to focus on the subjects and activities they love. All students select two hours of lessons each term to try different academic, creative, performing, and sporting activities.
In Year 7, they choose a language from French, German, Spanish and Mandarin
In Year 8, students can learn Home Economics with a professional chef
In Year 9, additional optional subjects include Business Studies, Photography, Art, Geography, History and Music
In Year 9, students are introduced to a timetable and curriculum similar to Key Stage Four in QE College and QE Faculty. Students choose four optional subjects that fall under the same categories as Key Stage Four: People & Places, Digital & Commerce and Creative & Physical. These options are flexible, with the choice for students to try out and change to ones they most enjoy.
