--- title: "Curriculum" url: "https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/curriculum" school: "Bishop Challoner Catholic College" --- # Curriculum - Curriculum Model - Reading Programme ### Curriculum Summary 2022-2023 At Bishop Challoner Catholic College we run a two week timetable. Typically the curriculum is structured as below: Our curriculum is reviewed every year across Key Stages 3 to 5 #### Year 7 - Art - Design Technology - Drama - English - French - Geography - History - Computing - Mathematics - Music - PE - PSHE - RE - Science #### Year 8 - Art - Design Technology - Drama - English - French - Geography - History - Computing - Mathematics - Music - PE - PSHE - RE - Science #### Year 9 - Art - Design Technology - Drama - English - French - Geography - History - Computing - Mathematics - Music - PE - PSHE - RE - Science At the end of Year 9 students select up to 4 option subjects from a range of choices. In addition students will complete ‘core’ subjects. Years 10 and 11 are structured as follows: #### Year 10 – Core Subjects: - English - Mathematics - PE - RE - Science #### Year 11 – Core Subjects: - English - Mathematics - PE - RE - Science #### #### Year 10 and Year 11 – Optional Subjects: - Art & Design - Business Studies - NCFE Award Business & Enterprise - BTEC Sport - BTEC Performing Arts - NCFE Food and Cookeery - ICT - Creative iMedia - Computing - Extended Science (Separate Sciences) - French - Geography - BTEC Health & Social Care - History - Media Studies - Music - Design Technology - BTEC – Personal Development & Well Being - PE ### Summer Term 2023 - Homework *“Reading the best that has been written and thought in our subjects”* Across the summer term, the core of our homework programme is a highly ambitious reading programme in which students will read a challenging text in each of their subjects, and answer questions on what they have read. The texts chosen relate to what students are studying in class, but they add to and enrich classroom lessons. They have been chosen because they reflect ‘the best of what has been written and thought in our subjects’. ![](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/images/Reading/EnWeb1.png) ![](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/images/Reading/EnWeb2.jpg) They might have been written by a great thinker in the subject. The text might be a piece of inspirational writing that scholars in the subject love. It might be a piece of commentary on a key idea, written for an educated and well-read audience. It may introduce the students to a scholarly journal or magazine, where they can read the same texts professionals in the field will read. ![](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/images/Reading/EnWeb3.jpg) ***"Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind."*** **Toni Morrison** ### Reading Programme Year 7 202 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/bishop-challoner-catholic-college/files/documents/Summer_2023_-_Year_7.pdf) Year 8 144 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/bishop-challoner-catholic-college/files/documents/Summer_2023_-_Year_8.pdf) Year 9 177 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/bishop-challoner-catholic-college/files/documents/Summer_2023_-_Year_9.pdf) ![](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/images/Reading/EnWeb4.png) #### **A Reader's Prayer** Guide my mind to choose the right books and other written works, having chosen them, to read them in the right way. When I read for profit, grant that all I read may lead me nearer to you. When I read for recreation, grant that what I read may not lead me away from you. Let all my reading so refresh my mind that I may the more eagerly seek after whatsoever things are pure and fair and true. uAdapted from [A Diary of Daily Prayer](http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Private-Prayer-John-Baillie/dp/0684824981/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379793563&sr=8-1&keywords=baillie+diary+of+daily+prayers), Day 21, Morning Prayer by John Baillie u ### Year 7-11 - [A Warm Welcome](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/a-warm-welcome) - [Admissions & Appeals](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/information-about-our-school/admissions) - [Curriculum](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/curriculum) - [Subjects](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/curriculum/subjects) - [RSE](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/curriculum/rse) - [SEND](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/send) - [Free School Meals](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/free-school-meals) - [Library](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/library) - [Netbook Programme](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/netbook-programme) - [Instrumental Lessons](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/instrumental-lessons) - [Extra-Curricular](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/extra-curricular-life) - [Examination Information](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/examinations-information) - [Careers](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/careers) - [Uniform](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/uniform) - [Latest News](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/news) - [Login](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/catholic-college/login) - [Year 9 Pathways](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/about/careers/year-9-pathways) - [Parent Information](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/parent-information) ![Bishop Challoner Catholic College](https://files.schudio.com/bishop-challoner-catholic-college/images/logo/logo(6).png) ### Bishop Challoner Catholic College Institute Road Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7EG 0121 444 4161 0121 441 1552 ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552167475288) - [X](https://x.com/BishopChalloner) - [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZYD3XtsauCowKyzMKMfuQ) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bishop-challoner-catholic-college) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/bishopchallonercatholiccollege/#) © Copyright 2017–2026 Bishop Challoner Catholic College School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://www.bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)