Curriculum

Our ethos encourages a real sense of community and the family nature of the school means that children can be themselves in a safe and accepting environment where pupils and staff work together.

A sense of community is a key feature of the school. Parents are encouraged to be involved and opportunities for staff, pupils and parents to work together and to pray together help underpin our ethos and form our curriculum.

Subjects

In the junior school (KS2), the National Curriculum is covered through a mix of class and specialist teaching.

The specialist teaching includes

  • French
  • Physical Education
  • Horticulture, Creator studies and cookery
  • Music

And at Year 5 and 6

  • Spanish
  • Drama

In the senior school (KS3 and 4) the National Curriculum is taught through the following subject headings

  • English
  • Drama
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • French
  • Spanish
  • History
  • Geography
  • Religious Studies
  • Physical Education and Games
  • Music
  • Art and Craft
  • Technology (Needle Craft, Workshop Craft, Creator Studies, Horticulture and Cookery)
  • PSHEE and Citizenship
  • Careers
  • Computer Science

The following subjects are taught to GCSE

  • English language
  • English literature
  • Mathematics
  • Sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics)
  • French
  • Spanish
  • History
  • Geography
  • Religious Studies
  • Computer Science
  • Music
  • Art and Design

Subjects such as Psychology, Law and Sociology are made available by distance learning. Media Studies and Business Studies may be offered.

Careers Education in the Secondary School

Careers education and guidance is an important part of the educational experience at The Christian School Takeley.  We aim to deliver careers guidance that is impartial, confidential and based on the needs of individual pupils.  We understand that our pupils have a variety of interests and skills which need to be cultivated to ensure that they can pursue relevant career options so our policy is to support, encourage and enable pupils to make informed choices and transitions related to their personal, educational and career aspirations. The secondary school careers programme is comprehensive and underpinned by the GATSBY benchmarks and guidance from the Department of Education.
 
In the lower senior years the careers programme is mainly focused on developing skills and awareness about business skills, the world of work and employability skills through Citizenship and PSHE lessons. In year 10 they have Life Skills lessons which begin to develop a CV and take part in work experience placements.  Year 11 works on skills around interviews, study and wider employability skills.
 
We have contacts in the local area and welcome enquiries from further education establishments and employers so that we may expand these links.  If you would like to contact us with relation to our careers programme please email Angela on angela.toms@tcstadmin.co.uk
 
 
Find our Careers Policy here: Careers
 
For career opportunities visit: https://www.theaimgroup.co.uk/

Home Educators and Flexible-Time Educators

The school is happy to work with Home Educators and pupils with outside school specialisms and to allow a measure of Home Education where it can be demonstrated that the education being provided is effective, supervised appropriately and follows Safeguarding procedures. This is a feature of the school and reflects its ethos, values and aims.

Any pupil attending the school, even under this agreement is included on the School Admissions Register and entered as being so in our annual returns to the DfE.

All agreements will be for a fixed time-scale and reviewed at the end of each Key Stage.

The School is ultimately responsible for the attainment of every child registered on the roll.

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These agreements are for a fixed period and are not usually entered in to at KS4.

DfE Advice on flexi education is published in the following documentation:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-attendance