Senior
OVERVIEW | |
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| Age Range | 11-15+ |
| Year Groups | Years 7-11 (Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4) |
| Key Contact | Sonya Papps (Vice Principal, Head of Senior) |
Our Approach
The Senior School at Shrewsbury Bangkok Riverside Campus is vibrant, exciting and challenging. It is a place for students to mature into responsible young adults as they learn together in a thriving international environment. We work closely with families to ensure that students have high academic aspirations, achieve success in public examinations, and discover interests that stay with them for life.
Throughout their time in the Senior School, students enjoy outstanding opportunities to explore and develop their own interests, have access to the very latest learning resources, technology and facilities, and benefit from the experience and expertise of our truly exceptional teaching team.
Our first-class facilities and highly qualified staff enable students to explore their academic fascinations and to develop a lifelong love of learning. A supportive network of pastoral and learning support specialists, Heads of Year and Form Tutors, with whom many students and parents form a particularly close bond, closely monitor progress inside and out of the classroom, ensuring that the wellbeing and happiness of the students in their care remain the school’s first priority.
Meet Our Team
Sonya Papps
Christopher Bellamy
Andrew Petit
Laura Garcia
Victoria Rotheram
We work closely with families to ensure that students have high academic aspirations, achieve success in public examinations, and discover interests that stay with them for life.
Our Curriculum
Moving from a principally ‘home class’ environment to now experiencing each and every subject in specialist spaces with specialist subject teachers. Student study 14 seperate subjects throughout Key Stage 3.
The curriculum is broad, and while there remains a heavy emphasis on the core subjects (English, Mathematics, and Science), students also experience 11 other subjects throughout Key Stage 3. This embeds a flexible and wide-ranging set of skills and knowledge for students to draw on and apply across their learning going forward.
At Shrewsbury we do not seek to accelerate or condense this process for students. It is an important time for them to grow as responsible, reflective, and confident young people; for them to develop their academic passions and to understand their strengths, and then to be able to approach the GCSE and A-level years that follow with the confidence to make their own choices about where they want their education to take them.
Year 10 marks the start of 2 year International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) programme, culminating in public examinations at the end of Year 11. Some subjects (such as science) actually start delivering their syllabus content in Year 9.
All students are required to complete the core subjects: English Language, Mathematics, and Science (Co-ordinated or Seperate sciences). Some students may also complete English Literature and Further Mathematics. In addition students choose 5 subjects from a list of 17 possible options. Shrewsbury students will typically complete Key Stage 4 with 8-11 IGCSE qualifications.
Academic Programme
Students follow a broad and balanced programme of study that is based on the English National Curriculum and adapted for our multilingual, international context. Full details of the curriculum are available in the Curriculum Guides.
All students in Year 7 to Year 11 study English, Mathematics and Science (either combined or separate sciences), supplemented by a range of languages, humanities and creative and performance subjects. As students move up through Senior School, they focus upon subjects of their choice, preparing for the internationally recognised International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) courses in Year 10 and Year 11, and Advanced Level (A-Level) in Year 12 and Year 13.
Students are encouraged and supported to take greater personal responsibility for their learning. Collaboration, group work and individual assignments are all used to develop the students’ skills, knowledge and understanding through ever more independent approaches to learning and discovery.
Developing Personal Skills
We are proud to enable our students to develop the skills and attitudes to be lifelong learners. We ensure that our students have high academic aspirations and achieve success in public examinations, but more importantly develop a lifelong love of learning.
Our team of dedicated Higher Education advisors supports students throughout their applications to the world’s leading universities and to prepare them for careers of the future. This requires our curriculum to be flexible and to focus upon the higher order skills of collaboration, communication and creative problem solving.
This education for life extends well beyond the traditional classroom. Through the You Time! after-school activities programme, House System, International Award, and a carefully constructed Learning for Life programme, we encourage our students to develop leadership skills and become compassionate and responsible members of the community, willing to question while retaining respect for traditional values.
We challenge them to take calculated risks, develop their sense of adventure, explore new interests and have a balanced and healthy approach to life.
We are proud to teach our students to learn, think independently, challenge and discuss, rather than be treated as empty vessels to be filled with facts. Our success speaks for itself!
