At iBOS, we believe that the curriculum drives the learning experience of all of our students. We have high aspirations for our students to achieve outstanding academic progress by focusing on moulding our pupils into lifelong learners. Key Stage 3 (years 7-9) prepares students for the next stage of their studies when they will take iGCSEs (Key stage 4)
Our online school has a broad and rich curriculum that challenges each student. The curriculum within a range of subjects and courses inspires students to have a love of learning and helps them gain invaluable knowledge, understanding and skills in every aspect of their education. This incorporates British values alongside linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technical, human, social, physical and artistic learning.
All students will study English Language, English Literature and Mathematics as part of our Key Stage 3 package, where students will investigate critical themes and improve their areas of understanding.
English will support students in developing their skills to:
Maths will enable our students to:
Students thoroughly cover all key scientific areas by studying Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
Pupils are supported to:
Students will study both Spanish and French, providing a foundation for these popular, widely spoken languages. Students will learn how to:
Students will read both History and Geography to learn how historical and environmental events influence contemporary socio-economic issues.
In Geography, students will extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East, focusing on their environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities
In History, Pupils should extend and deepen their chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, so that it provides a well-informed context for wider learning. Pupils should identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time. They should use historical terms and concepts in increasingly sophisticated ways. They should pursue historically valid enquiries including some they have framed themselves, and create relevant, structured and evidentially supported accounts in response. They should understand how different types of historical sources are used rigorously to make historical claims and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Pupils are taught to develop their creativity and ideas and increase proficiency in their execution. They will develop a critical understanding of artists, architects and designers, expressing reasoned judgements that can inform their own work.
Pupils will be taught:
Global Citizenship equips pupils with the knowledge, understanding, skills and strategies required to live healthy, safe, productive, responsible, balanced and just lives. It encourages them to be enterprising and supports them in making effective transitions, positive learning and career choices and in achieving economic well-being. A critical component of Global Citizenship is providing opportunities for pupils to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes and explore the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values and attitudes they encounter now and in the future.
Pupils are taught and encouraged to :
At iBOS, we believe that the curriculum drives the learning experience of all of our students. We have high aspirations for our students to achieve outstanding academic progress by focusing on moulding our pupils into lifelong learners. Key Stage 3 (years 7-9) prepares students for the next stage of their studies when they will take iGCSEs (Key stage 4)
Our online school has a broad and rich curriculum that challenges each student. The curriculum within a range of subjects and courses inspires students to have a love of learning and helps them gain invaluable knowledge, understanding and skills in every aspect of their education. This incorporates British values alongside linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technical, human, social, physical and artistic learning.
All students take the following courses:
English Language
English Literature
Maths
All students will initially study triple-award sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), with the option of taking exams in the separate sciences of Double Science (2 iGCSE equivalent)
Students can also select one language to study as part of the core package, such as French or Spanish. If a student feels that a language is not for them, they can choose a different subject instead.
Students can choose from the following additional subjects IGCSE to complete their options package (subject to scheduling and availability- courses will only run if there is sufficient interest)
Art and Design
Business Studies
Computer Science
Geography
Global Citizenship
History
Religious Studies
For further details please our Explore our Subjects section.
This course gives students opportunities to:
Students work within one of the following areas:
Students create a personal portfolio of work that demonstrates the knowledge,
understanding and skills for the selected areas, as well as present a personal response(s) to an externally set (by the exam board) broad-based thematic starting point.
This course covers the following content:
Assessment consists of two exams, Paper 1 (2 hours) and Paper 2 (one 1 hour and 15 minutes). Students taking double science will only take paper 1, students taking Triple sciences will take both.
This course covers the following content:
Assessment consists of two exams, Paper 1 (2 hours) and Paper 2 (one 1 hour and 15 minutes). Students taking double science will only take paper 1, students taking Triple sciences will take both.
The aims and objectives of this course are to enable students to:
Assessment consists of two exams, Paper 1: Principles of Computer Science (2 hours), and Paper 2: Application of Computational Thinking (3-hour practical exam)
The aims and objectives of this course are to enable students to:
Assessment consists of one 3-hour exam
The aims and objectives of this course are to enable students to:
The course comprises one mandatory component (Poetry and Modern prose, one 2-hour exam) and an additional component (Modern Drama and Literary Heritage Texts) that can either be assessed by an exam (1 hour 30 minutes) or by a portfolio of coursework.
The course is designed for students who are studying French in order to enhance their future education or employment prospects. Achievement is broadly equivalent to Levels A2 and B1 of the CEFR. Students will be expected to communicate formally and informally in a range of contexts, and to understand a wide range of texts and styles. The aim of the course is to test French language competence through realistic and contextualised tasks based on authentic texts.
They will learn about the following topics:
Assessment consists of 3 exams- Listening (30 minutes), Reading and Writing (1 hour 45 minutes) and speaking (8-10 minutes)
This course covers the following content:
Assessment consists of 2 exams- Paper 1 (1 hour 10 minutes) and paper 2 (1 hour and 45 minutes)
The aims of this course are to enable students to:
reflective thinkers
accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been
constructed about them
Assessment consists of two exams, Paper 1 and Paper 2 (both 1 hour and 30 minutes)
The aims and objectives of this course are to enable students to:
The following topics are covered:
Assessment is by two 2-hour exams.
This course covers the following content:
Assessment consists of two exams, Paper 1 (2 hours) and Paper 2 (one 1 hour and 15 minutes). Students taking double science will only take paper 1, students taking Triple sciences will take both.
This course covers the following content:
Assessment consists of two exams, Paper 1 (1 hour and 45 minutes) and Paper 2 (one 1 hour and 30 minutes).
The course is designed for students who are studying Spanish in order to enhance their future education or employment prospects. Achievement is broadly equivalent to Levels A2 and B1 of the CEFR. Students will be expected to communicate formally and informally in a range of contexts, and to understand a wide range of texts and styles. The aim of the course is to test French language competence through realistic and contextualised tasks based on authentic texts.
They will learn about the following topics:
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