Curriculum

St. Michael’s Schools: A Student Perspective

St. Michael’s Catholic High School

At St. Michael’s Catholic High School, the curriculum centers on the mission statement that places Jesus Christ at the heart of all educational efforts, reflecting the charism of the Dominican Sisters, the school’s founders. The curriculum is focused on developing students’ enquiring minds, understanding, knowledge, and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world. It emphasizes language and numbers, personal moral values, respect for other races, religions, and ways of life, and an appreciation of human accomplishments. The school offers a broad, balanced, and fully inclusive curriculum, tailored to challenge and be relevant to each student’s needs, ensuring progression and continuity throughout the different key stages.

St. Michael’s CE High School

St. Michael’s CE High School delivers a broad and balanced curriculum through innovative pedagogy and practice. The curriculum aims to ensure that students become knowledgeable in their subject areas and can apply this knowledge academically and in the wider world. The school’s vision, ethos, and mission are imbued with Christian teaching, embedding values such as mercy, integrity, care and compassion, humility, achievement, equality, leadership, and service. The school aims to prepare young people for life beyond school, offering a mix of academic and vocational options.

St. Michael’s Stone

St. Michael’s Stone has crafted a holistic, balanced, and wide-ranging curriculum that takes children on a journey of discovery, including science experiments, field trips, coding, drama, cricket, cooking, poetry, performance, calculations, music, and more. The curriculum aims to engage, develop, and succeed, providing children with stimulation and challenges to reach their potential with many enrichment opportunities along the way. Subjects such as Geography, Design & Technology, History, Reading, Maths, and Religious Education are part of the curriculum, with a strong emphasis on outdoor learning and sustainability.

St. Michael’s School

St. Michael’s School offers an ambitious curriculum that goes beyond the National Curriculum to provide life-enhancing wider curricular opportunities, enabling pupils to flourish in mind and spirit. The curriculum is broad, balanced, progressive, and challenging, with a strong focus on character education, promotion of wellbeing, and development of resilience, confidence, and leadership qualities. It includes a wide range of subjects, with particular emphasis on the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) while also recognizing the importance of the Performing Arts, technology, and design subjects in developing the ‘whole child’.

St. Michael’s Surrey

The curriculum at St. Michael’s Surrey is bespoke, designed to provide excellence, enrichment, and enjoyment for each pupil in each subject area. The curriculum aims for each pupil to flourish, developing their interests and talents, inspiring a love for learning, and becoming good communicators with a positive, growth mindset. It covers the full requirements of the national curriculum while also developing key skills and attitudes such as language and communication skills and a growth mindset.

Each St. Michael’s school, while unique in its approach, shares a commitment to providing a comprehensive education that prepares students not just academically but also as compassionate, well-rounded individuals ready to make a positive contribution to the world.