St Pauls Catholic School

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St Paul's Catholic School is a comprehensive co-educational secondary school in Leadenhall, Milton Keynes, England. It is also a Teacher Training College.Ofsted reportsThe school was inspected again in 2005 and 2008, and in both cases it was judged to be "outstanding".The school was inspected in late 2013, and was judged as "requires improvement" in every category. The report was quoted as saying: "It is not good because; Students do not make consistently good progress throughout the school, particularly the more able. There is also variation in standards between subjects at GCSE level. Not all teachers have sufficiently high expectations and do not plan lessons which challenge students according to their assessed needs, particularly those that are more able." In a further inspection in March 2016 the school was rated as "good".CurriculumKey Stage 3St Paul's Catholic School's KS3 curriculum has a format of six periods of 45-minute lessons, one 15-minute break and one 45-minute lunch on Mondays and Fridays. Eight periods of 40-minute lessons are taught on Wednesdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays along with two 15-minute breaks and one 40-minute lunch . KS3 subjects include English, Mathematics, Science, ICT, Religious Education, Physical Education, Games, History, Geography, Art, Design & Technology, Music, Drama, PSHE & Citizenship and a Modern Foreign Language; which is allocated in year 7 from either French, German, Italian or Spanish.Key Stage 4At KS4 pupils make GCSE options. The options are grouped into 3 programmes; A, B and C. All Programmes have the compulsory subjects of English Literature and Language, Mathematics (option of Additional mathematics in year 11), Religious Studies, Games (Non-GCSE) and PSHE (Non-GCSE). Programme A offers a choice of 1 humanity (History/Geography), 1 Expressive Art (Art/Drama/Music/PE), 1 technology (BTec Hospitality/Textiles/Product Design/Engineering/Graphics/Electronics) and 1 Vocational Subject (Business Studies/Business Communications/Health and Social Care/ICT). Science in programme A has two options of either Double Award or Triple Award). Programme B has the same compulsory Subjects but with no Humanities or Technology, 1 Expressive Art and 1 BTec Subject (Health and Social care/Horticulture/Business Studies in 1st diplomas). Programme C is the same as programme B but has the option of either BTec Business Introductory or BTec Construction and the Built Environment Introductory, instead of the 1st diploma courses.