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Academic Life

As you would expect, teaching and learning are at the heart of what we do.  Our stated aims focus on the individual and that is as true for the curriculum as it is for other areas of school life.

We start in Years 7 and 8 with a broad range of subjects, to which we add a degree of choice in Year 9. By the time pupils are choosing their GCSE options, they will have a clearer idea of their strengths and enthusiasms and be able to select the best range of subjects to go alongside the core subjects of English, Maths, all three sciences and a modern foreign language.

For A Level, further specialisation and greater focus on personal interest and academic strengths come into play as pupils look to their education and potential careers after life in the Sixth Form. We offer careers guidance and testing to support these fundamental choices and then UCAS and Higher Education guidance as they look to make the move to their chosen degree subject from the A Levels they will complete in Year 13.

No two pupils are the same and so we work to provide as much choice and flexibility as we can in our options schemes for Years 9, 10 and 12. All combinations are possible - in principle - and a broad mix of subjects is as supported as more traditional routes of sciences, languages or humanities.

Throughout, there is an underlying appreciation that pupils succeed best when taught interesting and engaging lessons by enthusiastic, specialist staff. We want our pupils to leave here with valuable study skills, having found their intellectual and academic passion and having fulfilled their potential in that area.

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KES remains at the top of the academic pops in Bath and Beyond.

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