The Avanti Grange curriculum will inspire courageous, curious and resilient learners with a lifelong love of learning and empower them to make the world a better place.
Our curriculum immerses students in the powerful knowledge and intellectual conversations of a broad range of subject disciplines, equipping them to make sense of the world around them and to excel in a range of fields. By nurturing students’ sense of identity and perspective, purpose and connection, it creates capacity for informed and conscientious collaboration now and in the future.
Our core values, core principles and golden threads of connection run throughout the curriculum, ensuring that educational excellence, character formation and spiritual insight are equally developed.
For the first three years (Years 7, 8 and 9), students follow a broad and challenging academic curriculum, including the following subjects:
A school-wide approach to literacy, as well as a generous allocation of curriculum time to English and Maths, ensures students build firm foundations in literacy and numeracy in Key Stage 3. These enable students to thrive in school, and to succeed at a range of subjects at GCSE (Years 10 and 11) and in their adult lives.
Students will select their GCSE options in Year 9, in preparation for Key Stage 4, and will typically study for nine or ten GCSEs.
Our Sixth Form curriculum will focus primarily on the most academic A levels. This will allow our students to gain places at the very best Russell Group universities. Our Oxbridge programme will support students with applications and interviews at both Oxford and Cambridge.
Our innovative and ambitious form time reading programme, Avanti Grange Reads, delivers an entitlement for all students to read a canon of high-quality texts across a range of genres during their time at school. Form tutors read aloud to their students, using evidence-based strategies to support the development of reading fluency and vocabulary. Regular discussion and reflection points address issues raised in the text to support character development and spiritual insight.