From the very beginning, our curriculum encourages each one of our students to achieve the best they can. Broadening their horizons and helping them to better understand themselves through a varied curriculum that stretches and challenges them. We’ll harness your child’s innate inner-drive, helping them to develop independence, confidence and a deep desire to learn and grow.
Our Approaches to Learning programme helps to develop students’ study skills. It covers elements including metacognition, how the brain works, retrieval practice, referencing and using and discovering Artificial Intelligence. This all culminates in an amazing celebration evening where students present their Fryer Project Qualification to parents.
Students are expected to use a laptop to support their studies and give them access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), where they’ll be able to use our online learning resources, collaborate with each other, and complete assignments.
The School has recently redeveloped a beautiful Victorian building into a new School Library and Sixth Form Study Centre to create further inspiring study spaces for our vibrant learning community.
The Leighton Park Learner Profile is a touchpoint for our students and staff, reminding all members of our teaching and learning community of the aspects of education that we value most greatly. These approaches and skills have an impact across the whole curriculum and enhance the educational experience for each subject as well as within cross-curricular activities. The School’s Quaker values are at the heart of the Learner Profile, underpinning everything that we do.
The School is perhaps best known for its STEAM academic programme, with an emphasis on critical thinking and creative problem-solving. Our aim is that all our students have the skills to not only be able to understand complex problems, but also have the creative thinking skills and initiative to develop and implement solutions. Students in Years 7-8 have the opportunity to experience Engineering and Music Technology. We also include more curriculum time than many other schools for creative subjects like Music, Design Technology and Art classes.
Our Creativity Action Service (CAS) programme is our national award winning personal development programme, with Leighton Park winning the national ISA Award for Excellence in Pupil Personal Development 2022. This programme is inspired by the personal development programme in the International Baccalaureate and is a unique aspect of the Year 7 and 8 timetable, developing practical skills, which can be deployed to help others. Embedding changemaking early on cements the school’s Quaker ethos and facilitates our students embracing future opportunities. From September 2024 we are re-shaping our CAS offering to include the exciting subjects of Engineering and Music Tech as separate lessons in the academic timetable and to boost our Music creativity within the CAS programme. See what our September 2023 cohort have enjoyed in CAS this year!
The promise of choice lies at the heart of Leighton Park’s curriculum with students exploring subjects in breadth and depth. Students are supported to explore new areas and build on their subject knowledge, enabling them to make an informed choice when it comes to selecting subjects at GCSE level – with 27 options on offer. Watch our subject videos to hear what our students think.
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Integrated throughout our school, this covers a diverse range of age-appropriate topics, from climate change to personal relationships, financial education to the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Our CAS programme has been devised to help young people understand their role in the global community. For the students in Years 7 and 8, CAS provides practical skills development that supports changemaking opportunities.
There’s nothing like seeing the places you’re learning about, or practising a language amongst native speakers. Our trips complement the work we do in the classroom, helping studies come to life.
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