Curriculum Areas
The word 'curriculum' is understood at Kingswood in its broadest sense. It is more than the subjects on the timetable followed by the students. The school's curriculum covers all the planned activites in which students are involved; activities in classrooms, laboratories, workshops, the library, the sports hall, during visits and residentials, even in corridors and playgrounds.
Our curriculum is structured around several key areas of experience. All students have a right to study these areas in a manner that takes full account of their potential and capability. Our aim is to provide a broad and balanced entitlement curriculum whereby, increasingly, students acquire the skills, knowledge, concepts and understanding to develop their full potential, whilst at school and as adults.
Kingswood should develop in students the specific skills of numeracy, literacy, information technology, communication, physical coordination, logical thought, problem solving, information skills, experimentation, empathy and interpretation - as well as social skills such as working with others.
In line with our core values - equality, community, respect, responsibility, high expectations and achievement - the curriculum at the Kingswood School aims to help students to think and to act for themselves whilst respecting the views of others; to care for themselces and to care for others; to have the skills and knowledge necessary to cope with the world as it is now and the initiative and imagination to build on the knowledge of the past with the future in mind.
