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Hear about the Upper School Years
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Our endeavour must be to develop free human beings able to impart purpose and direction to their lives
We aim for our students to
- Seek the right balance between freedom and responsibility
- Find growing self awareness and confidence
- Develop independent power of judgement
- Have the strength of character to act responsibly from their own insight
We continue to work with the international Waldorf curriculum with our own uniquely developed body based learning programme. The GCSE programme is also introduced, which runs over three years: students normally take 4 GCSEs in class 10 and the remainder in class 11. The majority of the students go on to college to do A-levels.
Forging
This year has seen a new Upper School programme which includes morning modules of active learning.
GCSE results 2011 are consistently above the national average. Elmfield has also moved to the IGCSE for several subjects, to provide a higher challenge for our pupils. We are pleased with the results .
Each year a class trip is undertaken
- Class 9 students visit our sister school in Schloss Hamborn, Germany and work on their school farm.
- In Class 10 our students may work on a community based project
- Class 11, after a major fundraising effort, normally travel abroad as a culmination of their time together at Elmfield.
During the Upper School years, regular individual foreign exchanges enrich the school community.
Beyond the specific skills across the curriculum, each subject should be an opportunity to raise wider issues. We believe that such study should not be focussed solely on learning or passing exams but should be seen as a means to reflect on the deeper questions that young people have within themselves, and to guide them towards becoming responsible, creative, purposeful citizens.
