Secondary School Subjects At Key Stage 4 & IGCSE Preparation
At Year 10 – the start of Key Stage 4 in the English National Curriculum – and continued through Year 11, students at the British School Guangzhou start their two-year International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) examination courses.
Students study the core IGCSEs in mathematics, science, English, and another language. This course of study is complemented with several optional IGCSEs. Students are likely to sit between 8 and 11 IGCSEs in total.
Students who successfully complete KS4 of the curriculum in Years 10 and 11 proceed to KS5, focused on A-levels, in Years 12 and 13, which gives them the ideal preparation for university.
Secondary School Curriculum Enrichment
We enrich our secondary school curriculum at BSG in the following ways:
- Leadership Opportunities: In addition to formal positions of responsibility, we also provide students with opportunities to show leadership and initiative. These include subject prefect positions and running after-school activities for younger students.
- Residential Trips: Our students take part in a few trips throughout Sixth Form to develop their leadership skills and to allow opportunities for personal growth. These have included trips to Europe, the US, and throughout China and Asia with outward-bound courses in Hong Kong involving sailing, kayaking, and trekking.
- Global Campus: All BSG Secondary students have access to Global Campus, Nord Anglia Education’s global education platform. This enables students at BSG to interact in challenges, events, and competitions with their peers at NAE schools across the globe and to work with world-renowned collaborators The Julliard School (known for performing arts), MIT for STEAM subjects, and UNICEF for humanitarian causes and social impact.
Our students’ access to these activities within the curriculum allows them to achieve additional qualifications to enhance their personal portfolios. This is our way of recognising the importance many top universities place on students’ holistic education and interests beyond the classroom.
