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Curriculum Intent & Vision
Our curriculum is coherently planned, sequenced, and regularly refined to meet the evolving needs of our pupils and align with our priorities.
Our curriculum offer is deeply rooted in our proud RAF heritage and inspired by the courage, selflessness, and service of Flying Officer Raimund Sanders Draper.
We aim to instil three core values in every student:
Resilience: Demonstrating the grit embodied by our namesake, embracing challenges, adapting to setbacks without fear of failure, and persevering to reach full potential.
Achievement: Aiming high in all endeavours with ambition and independence, taking responsibility for personal learning, and striving for excellence across all subjects.
Family: Fostering a supportive, inclusive community built on mutual respect, courtesy, and active listening, where every student belongs and succeeds together.
We firmly believe that instilling these core values will honour our unique legacy and prepare all students to navigate life with purpose, securing a bright, prosperous, and happy future.
Through the diversity and depth of the Sanders Draper curriculum, students will:
Feel a profound sense of belonging within the Sanders Draper family, united by a shared history, pride, and supportive community.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the world around them, gaining the knowledge required of informed, modern global citizens.
Understand how and why society continues to evolve, drawing lessons from historical events, civic duty, and acts of sacrifice that shaped modern Britain.
Recognise, understand, and celebrate the multicultural world around them, valuing diversity as a fundamental strength of our community.
Our rich extra-curricular provision builds personal character, nurtures individual talents, and embeds our core RAF values: Resilience, Achievement, and Family. We actively promote students' Social, Moral, Spiritual, and Cultural (SMSC) development alongside Fundamental British Values, fostering a supportive school community where confidence thrives.
For students identified with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), we ensure both classroom learning and targeted interventions are adaptively planned. Staff hold a sensitive, detailed awareness of individual needs, tailoring resources so every student can fully access and enjoy the curriculum.
We maintain high expectations for every learner. By establishing a clear understanding of prior attainment and sharing the educational journey with students, we consistently push all individuals to achieve their absolute best, both academically and as active members of our school community.
Curriculum Design
We maintain uncompromised academic and vocational ambition for every learner, ensuring all pupils make strong progress and leave fully prepared for modern life in Britain and the global economy.
Academic Ambition & Cultural Capital: The curriculum prioritises a strong, knowledge-rich academic core alongside broad technical and vocational pathways, equipping pupils with the cumulative knowledge, vocabulary, and cultural capital needed for lifelong success.
Inclusive Equity: We operate an ambitious curriculum for all pupils, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), English as an Additional Language (EAL), low prior attainment, or socio-economic disadvantage (Pupil Premium).
Character & Values: Integrated through our PSHE, RE and Citizenship curriculums which include, British Values, SMSC development, mental health awareness, and personal responsibility.
Attitudes to Learning Attributes: Classroom routines explicitly develop core attributes: readiness to learn, acquiring subject vocabulary, responding constructively to feedback, summarising learning, thinking creatively, and working collaboratively.
Curriculum Booklets for parents
Curriculum Roadmaps
Key Stage 3 Curriculum
We offer a broad and balanced curriculum to all of our students as well as an extensive range of extracurricular activities.
In Years 7,8 and 9 students study: Art, Design and Technology, Drama, English, Food, French, Geography, History, Information Technology, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science and Textiles.
Students experience all of the potential GCSE options in Year 9, which enables them to make fully informed GCSE option choices.
All students will follow lessons of Physical Education and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC). AT Sanders Draper school we call this Ethics and values. In addition, this part of the curriculum covers key content for PSHRE and SRE. This is delivered with appropriate language to age groups and sometimes in single sex settings if appropriate.
Key Stage 3 Overview (Years 7–9)
We follow the national curriculum guidance as produced by the Department for Education.
Pupils complete a broad and balanced three-year Key Stage 3 curriculum that lays deep foundations across humanities, languages, STEM, and creative subjects.
Core Subjects: English, Literacy, Art, Design and Technology, Drama, Food, French, Geography, History, Computing, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, PSHE, Religious Education, Science.
Year 9 Options Sampling: In Year 9, pupils experience all potential GCSE options to make fully informed, aspirational choices for Key Stage 4.
Key Stage 4 Curriculum
Key Stage 4 Overview (Years 10–11)
Key Stage 4 offers a flexible structure that aims to maximise post-16 opportunities and pupil achievement.
Core Academic Requirement: All pupils study English (Language and Literature), Mathematics, Science, and History or Geography. All students also study PSHRE, Digital Literacy and Core PE.
Option Choice Pathways: Pupils select three additional options based on preferences and career goals, choosing from Art, Business Studies, Child Development, Citizenship, Design and Technology, French, Hospitality and Catering, Music, Performing arts, Physical Education, Sociology, Textiles, and Triple Science.
Targeted Alternative Pathways: Tailored vocational/technical programmes (e.g., Functional Skills, Construction) are provided for specific cohorts based on individual need to ensure 100% positive post-16 destinations.
Careers Guidance (CEIAG): Fully embedded across all year groups in line with the Gatsby Benchmarks and Provider Access Legislation.
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