Teaching and Learning
Curriculum Intent
Kings College offers all pupils a broad, balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum focussed on providing appropriate challenge and bespoke support. Our teachers utilise educational research to create academically engaging learning opportunities which focus on equipping pupils with the knowledge, skills and cultural capital necessary to facilitate excellent academic outcomes and success in life.
Our curriculum feeds into the broader Learning Partners curriculum intent, linked here.
Lessons
All lessons at Kings are 100 minutes long to allow pupils the opportunity to learn our knowledge-rich curriculum in sufficient depth. Students’ learning is sustained by a lesson structure that offers ‘remember’ tasks linked to prior learning and new, challenging learning opportunities which teachers ‘live model’. Students are offered both verbal and written feedback to address misconceptions, improve their work and offer a ‘healthy struggle’ – a phrase we often use when challenging students to learn new things they may find difficult. All pupils also receive homework every lesson which either focusses on embedding prior learning or preparing for work to come.
Assessments
Learning in lessons is supported by the assessment system which uses regular low-stakes quizzing in class to both formatively assess but — perhaps more importantly — to embed knowledge in long-term memory by means of the ‘testing effect’. Students are given the time to learn the knowledge and skills in depth and taught how to revise appropriately for each subject. This is bookmarked by the school’s two summative assessment points where all pupils complete assessments under formal exam conditions.
Curriculum Subject Information
