KS3 and KS4 Curriculum and Careers

Welcome to Sandfield School Key Stage 3 and  4
The curriculum at KS3 and 4 takes into account and incorporates pupils experiences, age and developmental stage. We acknowledge that many of our pupils have complex learning difficulties and have designed a personalised curriculum that enables the pupils to learn and progress through:

  • Topic based learning, semi-formal or a more formal approach.

Pupils will complete a range of activities to prepare them for real life and work related tasks. For the pupils aged 14-16, this will involve a focus on developing academic, personal and social skills. These skills will help prepare them in moving into the Sixth Form, where they will be involved in arranged work experience, the completion of further work related tasks, the possibility of an internship and then preparation for work opportunities that could arise beyond school. For each pupil, their individual needs will be considered and tasks/activities will be differentiated and support will be provided accordingly.

During their time in KS4, the pupils will be looking to gain nationally recognised qualifications.

We do this through a broad curriculum consisting of Functional Skills, Personal, Social and Health Education, Citizenship and Independent Living Skills. We also provide a rich Expressive Arts programme as our students thrive from the opportunities that these curriculum areas offer. 

Meet The Team:
Miss C. Hynes - S1 Class Teacher, Eco Assistant, Parents, English/ Communication, Speak + Listening, Curriculum and Assessment, Evidence for Learning
Miss E. Moreton - S2 Class Teacher 
Miss K. Reynolds/Miss S. Barry- S3 Class Teacher, English/ Read and Write, Drama
Mr L. Benson - S4 Class Teacher, Maths Co-ordinator, Curriculum and Assessment, Evidence for Learning
Miss S. Foga - S5 Class Teacher, SEND, Science Co-ordinator, Transition Co-ordinator, PSHE and SRE, School Direct and Behaviour.
Miss L. Cant - S6 Class Teacher 

We encourage pupils to complete some extra work at home, usually focussing on reading and some of the activities on the website links below. 

Homework Website Links
Links to websites that require login information from school:
Mathletics – A maths website with interactive activities and a world-wide calculation challenge.
http://uk.mathletics.com/
Bugclub – A reading website with a wide range of books and comprehension questions.
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0
IDL Cloud – A reading and spelling website to help develop spelling patterns and skills.
https://www.idlcloud.co.uk/
Links to websites with a range of interactive activities, games, rhymes and various other learning resources:
Topmarks
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Homework help
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
Crickweb
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/
ICT Games
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html
Teachingmoney - Money activities and games
http://www.teachingmoney.co.uk/
Mathszone – Maths specific games and activities
http://mathszone.co.uk/
Dolchword – Games involving essential and common spelling words
http://www.dolchword.net/dolch-word-games.html
Timestables - Times tables games and activities
https://www.timestables.co.uk/
Primarygames - Maths games
http://www.primarygames.co.uk/
Khanacademy – Maths and science video lessons and activities
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Nrich – Problem solving challenges
https://nrich.maths.org/
Parents/carers – fancy testing those maths skills yourself?
https://www.nnchallenge.org.uk/home/index.html