Key Stage 4 offers your child a broad, diverse and stimulating curriculum that results in achieving the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) Award.  The programme offered at the British School of Paris is excellent. GCSEs provide excellent preparation for the A Level courses offered in Years 12 and 13, leading to university entrance world wide.

GCSE courses mean a deeper and more challenging approach to the subjects studied. Success in these courses will depend not only on a pupil’s ability to work hard in class, but also on a willingness to work independently.

Many of the specifications demand that pupils prepare coursework – this is evidence of personal study skills rather than just a test of ability to memorise material. Much of this work will be assessed under controlled conditions in class.

Pupils will study Mathematics, English Language, English Literature, Science and Additional Science, French, PSHE and PE (Core). We ask you to choose three other subjects.  We offer:

• Art and Design
• Business Studies
• Drama
• Geography
• German
• Graphic Products
• History
• ICT
• Music
• Physical Education
• Resistant Materials Technology
• Spanish

Life at the British School of Paris in Key Stage 4 is not just about academic opportunity and success.  All our pupils enjoy a wide variety of lunchtime and afterschool activities. The programme varies from term to term but typically involves drama, music and sports clubs and groups of all kinds.

In Years 10 and 11 the special educational needs of students with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia or dyspraxia are addressed either individually or in small groups. 

Short term intervention programmes are available to support pupils with emotional and behavioural problems and those who find it difficult to adjust to the norms and work culture of the BSP.

The Learning Support Department carries out assessments of pupils who are referred either through internal procedures or by parents. A referral usually comes from a class teacher, through the relevant Heads of Department, to the tutor and then the Head of Key Stage.

If further action is required the parents are consulted and permission sought for an educational assessment by the Head of Learning Support. This will be in the areas of intelligence, reading, writing, spelling, numeracy and oral and listening comprehension. A report will be written with recommendations which will go to the parents and teachers and action will be taken accordingly. If consultation with an outside agency is required the Learning Support Department will provide liaison.