Cambridge Lower Secondary is intended for students aged 11 to 14. It aids in your child’s preparation for the next stage of his or her education by providing a clear path as they go through the Cambridge Pathway with Cambridge Online School in an age-appropriate manner.
By offering Cambridge Lower Secondary, we provide a broad and balanced education for our learners, helping them to thrive throughout their schooling, work and life. With 10 subjects to choose from, including English, Mathematics and Science, our lower secondary programme provides a clear path for the next stage of education, as well as plenty of opportunities to develop creativity, expression and personal wellbeing in a variety of ways.
You can shape the curriculum around how you want your students to learn. Because Cambridge Lower Secondary is flexible, can adapt the content to suit the context, culture and ethos. Our lower secondary programme is part of the Cambridge Pathway. The four stages lead seamlessly from primary to secondary and pre-university years.
Our Approach To Lower Secondary Education
We have built Cambridge Lower Secondary around what matters most to our schools and learners around the world:
A broad curriculum for a balanced education
With a choice of 10 subjects, a wide range of support and optional assessments, we find plenty to help deliver core subjects as well as develop creativity, expression and wellbeing.
A range of subjects makes sure that teaching and learning appeals to many different students and prepares them for the future by introducing them to new topics. A stimulating and varied curriculum, which challenges and inspires students to be lifelong learners.
A clear path to progress, step by step
Cambridge Lower Secondary helps prepare learners for the next step of their education, providing a clear path as they progress through the Cambridge Pathway in an age-appropriate way.
We need to make sure that students are learning the right things at the right time. Each subject at Cambridge Lower Secondary has a curriculum framework with progression grids showing what comes before and after. The sequencing of learning aligns from stage to stage. Students will be familiar with content and skills from the previous stage and well prepared for the next.
A global learner in a local context
Cambridge Lower Secondary encourages learners to understand their own culture, community and identity within the wider world. We want to celebrate local culture while helping learners to discuss global issues. Activities in our schemes of work are internationally focused but they can be applied in all local contexts so that learners can develop a broad outlook.
A flexible approach
Cambridge Lower Secondary is flexible, adapts to learners’ needs and works with local context.
Our programme covers three years of learning and can be integrated with local and national curricula. Also, our range of assessment options helps to choose the approach that works best for the learners.
An aligned programme based on the latest research
We make sure that the programme, from curriculum to teaching, learning and assessment, is aligned and informed by the latest research.
Subject experts and leading specialists develop our curricula using subject-specific research. We critically review every learning objective through the lens of curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment. Aligning these four areas puts learners in the best possible position for the future and leads to a richer learning experience.
Curriculum
Cambridge Lower Secondary is designed to stretch, challenge and inspire all students, whatever their cultural context.
We give a curriculum that suits our students’ needs. There are 10 subjects to choose from.
Each comes with a clear set of learning objectives, to know exactly what content to cover and which skills to develop:
- Art & Design
- Cambridge Global Perspectives™
- NEW Computing
- Digital Literacy
- English
- English as a Second Language
- Mathematics
- Music
- Physical Education
- Science
We encourage teaching practice that engages students in their own learning, and offer teaching resources and professional development to help this.
The curriculum and progression
All Cambridge Lower Secondary subjects include a set of learning objectives that provide a structure for teaching and learning, and a reference to check learners’ attainment and skills against.
We divide learning objectives into clearly sequenced areas called ‘strands’ that can teach separately or together. All 10 subjects and learning objectives ensure a smooth progression throughout Cambridge Lower Secondary and onwards into Cambridge Upper Secondary and beyond.
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