KEY STAGE 3
Many students and their parents find themselves focussing on the years that they sit their GCSE’s. With the constant focus on league tables and the pressure to produce good exam results, schools inevitably prioritise Key Stage Four and students sitting exams. However, here at Excel, we believe that Key Stage Three is invaluable to a child’s academic career as it equips them with the knowledge, skill and understanding to go on and succeed in their GCSE’s, A-levels and any further education they pursue. Through our highly skilled tutors and our bespoke syllabuses, we aim to instil a love of the subjects we teach in our students as well as enrich, challenge and motivate them to surpass their targets and perform outstandingly when they sit their exams. Our small group settings ease student’s transition from primary to secondary ensuring they are given the right amount of attention, confidence and encouragement. We monitor and evaluate all of our students, informing parents of the progress their child is making throughout the academic year.
What you can expect from the English department:
- Read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, including in particular whole books, short stories, poems and plays with a wide coverage of genres, historical periods, forms and authors
- Know how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, presents meaning
- Learn new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries
- Writing for a wide range of purposes and audiences
What you can expect from the Maths department:
- Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately
- Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
- Solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions
What you can expect from the Science department:
- Develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
- Develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
- Become equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future
