Key Stage 3

At Temple Moor, we run a three-year Key Stage 3 (KS3) with a focus on breadth, balance and challenge. At KS3, students will study: Music; Performing Arts (including Drama and Drama); Design Technology (Food Technology, Textiles, Product Design); Graphic Arts (Fine Art, Graphics, Photography); Computer Science; Religious Education; Personal Development; Leadership through PE; and Read to Succeed. These subjects sit alongside the academic disciplines of English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and Modern Languages, which are also undertaken by all students.

Core PE promotes learning and leadership skills through Sport, as well as providing benefits to students in terms of regular exercise and physical and mental wellbeing.

Read to Succeed is our school wide reading programme. It develops proficiency in reading, across a range of age appropriate texts, which research indicates allows students to better access the full curriculum and articulate their ideas. This is supplemented by additional support through the use of Accelerated Reader, for a defined group of students.

NB: We reserve the right, under exceptional circumstances, to insist that a student accesses their educational provision in an alternative provision to Temple Moor High School, that better suits their specific circumstances and/or the needs of the rest of the school population.

Key Stage 4

At Key Stage 4, students select four options which they choose to specialise in at greater depth. These options are undertaken alongside the core provision of GCSE English, GCSE English Literature, GCSE Maths and GCSE Combined Science/separate sciences, Personal Development, GCSE (short course) RE and Core PE.

One of these options is chosen at the end of Year 8, and studied over three years. The remaining three options are chosen at the end of Year 9 and studied over two years. This model is designed to provide students with an opportunity to expand the subjects they can study in Year 9 to gain earlier access to subjects such as Health and Social care, Psychology or Enterprise, for which there is no KS3 taught element, allowing greater time to explore these new subjects in depth whilst still maintaining breadth for Key Stage 3 subjects. This option also provides an accelerated pathway for separate scientists.

Students receive extensive guidance and support in making informed choices which best meet their needs and aspirations. To this end, students are guided onto one of two options pathways:

• Core Plus: a pathway in which students are guided toward studying the full suite of EBacc certificate qualifications (Core subjects plus a humanities subject and a modern language). Alongside this, they have two further option choices.
• Core: a pathway in which students are guided toward studying one of the Humanities subjects alongside the Core. In addition, they have three further option choices. These option choices include the opportunity to undertake a modern language for students, allowing them equality of opportunity to opt to sit the EBacc certificate suite of qualifications if they wish.
• Sustain: a pathway in which a very small number of students, requiring additional support with learning, are guided toward studying the BTEC Level 1 Work Skills qualification alongside three open option choices. The Work Skills qualification focusses on the development of employability skills and citizenship, enabling students to engage with employers, investigate apprenticeships and future employment and apply their knowledge to the workplace. Some of this time is also used to support students with the provision of additional Maths and English tuition. The three open option choices include the opportunity to undertake History, Geography and a modern language for students, allowing equality of opportunity to choose the full EBacc certificate suite of qualifications, if they wish to.

As a result of the strong academic foundation put in place at Key Stage 3, the proportion of students entering the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) certificate suite of subjects within school is well above national average, with 60% of the most recent Year 11 cohort sitting this full suite of subjects.

Further details of the options process can be found HERE.

Key Stage 5

At KS5, we offer a wide range of subjects which support academic and vocational ambitions, including some courses offered in conjunction with our Partnership schools of Brigshaw High School and Garforth Academy.

Details of the Key Stage 5 offer can be found HERE.