Academic Intro - Royal Hospital School

Academic provision at the Royal Hospital School is exceptional. From their earliest years all pupils are encouraged to enjoy learning and to develop a lifelong appetite for knowledge.

On joining the school, pupils are placed in forms on the basis of assessed ability and are only moved after careful monitoring and consultation. We follow the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4 and the school subscribes to the Durham University value added measuring schemes at all levels, allowing tutors to map pupil progress. In core subjects, setting and banding take place from the outset and at GCSE level setting takes place in the majority of subjects. The working week consists of 42 x 35 minute periods. The curriculum combines traditional academic values with the best of modern educational thinking to provide depth, breadth and balance. We expect hard work and support the pupils with exceptional resources, high quality, enthusiastic teaching and dedicated tutorial support.

To ensure that pupils leave us well prepared for the increasingly complex challenges of tomorrow’s world, we provide them with the latest technologies, which are continually updated. Our state-of-the-art facilities including a computer centre as well as clusters of department-based workstations, the purpose-built Jellicoe Design Centre and the well-stocked Prince of Wales Library, which also offers multi-media ICT facilities. Regulated access to the Internet is available to all pupils.

Education here is about much more than simply passing exams. Encouraged to enjoy learning, our boys and girls develop an appetite for self-motivated study and a desire for knowledge that will last for life.