The Expressive Arts

• Provide enjoyment and inspiration
• Give opportunities for students to work collaboratively with others
• Enable students to learn form practical experience
• Develop in students an appreciation of cultural values
• Help students understand the contribution of the arts to individuals, communities and the economy
• Give students opportunities to perform and present their work

Health and Wellbeing

• Students will have a positive experience of healthy living activities
• Learn to cope with challenging situations
• Acquire the capacity to sustain physical, emotional and social wellbeing
• Think critically about how to make informed health choices and contribute to their own and others’ wellbeing
• Promote self management skills and personal identity

 Languages

• Encourage intellectual curiosity
• Develop skills of thinking, learning, communicating and working with others
• Develop critical thinking and discernment
• Exercise creativity
• Exploit a wide range of different texts and media
• Help learners make connections
• Promote understanding of how language works
• Increase students’ understanding of their own and other cultures
• Develop competence in other languages

 Mathematics

• Help students acquire essential numeracy skills
• Develop an understanding of the concepts, principles and processes of mathematics
• Embody problem solving as an intrinsic element of mathematical approaches
• Students will be able to apply mathematical competencies in other contexts
• Students will understand the impact of Mathematics on all aspects of life

Science

• Stimulates curiosity and questioning
• Students investigate the environment
• Provides experience of practical investigations and experiments
• Promotes understanding of empirical methods
• Enables students to interpret evidence
• Gives an understanding of the impact on society, culture and the environment
• Students use Science to consider social, ethical, economic and environmental issues

 Social Subjects

• Students develop an understanding of the world and the forces that have shaped it
• Students make sense of the changes in Society
• Students develop enquiry skills and capacity for critical thinking
• Understand how human activity and achievements influence the social and physical environment and shape values
• Provides a context in which learners can exercise informed and responsible citizenship

 R.M.E.

•  Explores morals and values
• Helps students develop their own beliefs and values
• Develops students’ knowledge of Christianity and other religions
• Develops skills of reflection, critical thinking and deciding how to act when making moral decisions

 Technologies

• Helps students apply knowledge and skill to design and create products
• Develops students’ imagination and creativity
• Encourages the enterprising attitudes for success in the global economy
• Offers opportunities for work-related learning
• Encourages students to be skilled users of current technologies and to embrace future developments
• Promotes understanding of the impact of technology on society