The aims of St Teresa’s emphasise the importance of a balanced and challenging curriculum:

• to provide an appropriate and challenging curriculum based on Gospel values
• to support the growth, development and needs of the whole person, based on the Christian way of life
• to strive for quality and excellence and to help pupils achieve high academic standards

The broad academic curriculum at St Teresa’s is supported by extra-curricular and  co-curricular activities, which aims to give pupils of compulsory school age experience in the following areas: -

• Linguistic
• Mathematical
• Scientific
• Technological
• Human and social
• Physical
• Aesthetic and creative education

The curriculum is reviewed each year to ensure that it matches the needs of all pupils irrespective of ability, learning difficulty, language acquisition and ethnicity.  At the same time, the curriculum provides a framework within which teachers are free to, and encouraged to, work creatively.  All pupils must have the opportunity to learn and make progress and acquire skills in speaking and listening, literacy and numeracy.  The curriculum offered at Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level is chosen to prepare pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life after secondary and further education.  The Careers Department offers appropriate advice and support at Key Stages 3 and 4 and in the Sixth Form. The PSHE Programme enhances the curriculum in all years. The curriculum throughout the school is supported by appropriate plans and schemes of work.

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