Distribution Of Learning Hours

The Archbishop’s School distribution of subject lessons 2024-25

Each student in KS3-4 has a sixty-lesson timetable spread over two weeks, with each lesson 50 minutes long. This is in addition to Form Time/Worship which starts each day and includes collective worship, a variety of activities including reading and looking at various aspects linked to safeguarding and current affairs as well as two assemblies a week.

KS5 students have ten lessons per subject per fortnight, and typically study 3-4 subjects. Alongside this, students often study towards an Extended Project Qualification as well as volunteering their time to work within the school and broader communities.

The lessons per Year Group are shown in the table below:

Subjects/year

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

KS5

English

8

8

8

9

9

Students typically take three or four A-levels or equivalents each of which have ten lessons. Where necessary students take GCSE re-takes in English Language/ Mathematics or both subjects with six to eight lessons per subject.

We also offer a Level 2 Gym Instructors qualification, normally tailored for students in the Millwall Football Academy or Canterbury Rugby Academy.

Students also have two lessons of PE a week, a lesson of Religious Education a fortnight (in Year 12) and a lesson of PSHE a fortnight.

 

Mathematics

10

10

8

9

9

Science

8

8

12

12

12

Religious Studies

4

4

4

6

4

Physical Education

6

6

4

4

5

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)

2

2

2

2

1

History

4

4

4

Students pick three subjects with six lessons in each subject. As well as the subjects on the left-hand side, subjects also include Art, Build Up, Digital IT, Drama, Enterprise, Health & Social Care, Hospitality and Catering, Music,  Photography, Sport and Travel & Tourism.

 

Students pick four subjects with five lessons in each subject. As well as the subjects on the left-hand side (except Music), subjects also include Build Up, Digital IT, Drama, Enterprise, Health & Social Care, Hospitality and Catering, Photography, Sport and Travel & Tourism.

Geography

4

4

4

Spanish

4

4

4

Computer Science

2

2

2

Drama

Students are taught in two rotations of three lessons a fortnight. For example, they will study Drama and Art in Term 1 and then Food Technology and Music in Term 2 and then swap back.

Food Technology

Art

Music