Subjects

Highgate Wood School’s Art department is a busy, vibrant place. We have four well equipped art studios, as well as a photographic dark room and access to a dedicated media suite.

Young people are the entrepreneurs of the future and here at Highgate Wood School we support and encourage these potential business leaders to achieve their best.

The change from ICT to Computing has allowed Highgate Wood School to move to the forefront of this exciting new discipline.

Design and Technology is concerned with all aspects of the world in which we live, and how we live in it. It draws on a variety skills that incorporate practical and intellectual challenges.

Drama is a successful and thriving subject with an experienced team of specialist teachers working in studio accommodation with controlled lighting facilities.

We believe it is vital to encourage students to find pleasure in their own work and to develop critical and enquiring minds. We aim to provide a curriculum which is broad and challenging and which encourages students to become confident and engaged in their learning.

Geography is taught at Highgate Wood School through Year 7, 8 and 9, with many students then choosing it as an option for GCSE study.

History is a very popular and successful subject at Highgate Wood School with students making extremely rapid progress in all years, and enjoying significant success in examinations.

The Maths’ Department’s biggest desire is to help all students make progress with their own Mathematics. We would like to make our subject enjoyable and accessible to everybody.

Through Media Studies students are able to extend their analytic skills and understanding of modern media production and media text whilst our well-equipped Mac studios allow them also to develop their technical skills in media production.

We make use of the technology available to bring learning of languages to life, and lessons are active and engaging.

The music staff are all practising musicians and composers, proficient in at least four instruments and dedicated to making the learning of music fun for all.

All teachers are expected to nurture students' social & emotional well-being, to promote the diversity of our city and the values of compassion & respect that we share as a society.

Highgate Wood School has a very active, and a very successful, PE department.

Religion, Ethics and Philosophy follows the National Curriculum's requirements for Religious Education in schools but, as the name suggests, has a broader and more all-encompassing approach engaging students in discussions on a whole range of moral and ethical issues that impact on their world.

Science is a core subject in the curriculum and a central part of learning at Highgate Wood School.

Highgate Wood School teach a wide variety of topics in social science from KS3 - KS5.