The Lady Boswell’s curriculum is designed to achieve our Theologically Rooted Christian Vision:

We value every member of our community as a unique child of God and seek to demonstrate His love through our words and actions.  We enable every child to achieve their full potential so that they leave us with their heads inspired and their hearts enriched.

As a result, our children will ...

✓ Develop a positive sense of self and well-being; confident to make the right choices and keep themselves safe in an ever-changing society

✓ Strive for academic excellence, developing a thirst for knowledge and a love of learning

✓ Become effective communicators, collaborators and leaders

✓ Be resilient, resourceful and courageous

✓ Be curious, creative individuals and confident problem solvers

✓ Grow in spiritual awareness and develop a strong moral compass and a deepening understanding of the Christian faith in a multi-faith British society

✓ Become responsible and tolerant global citizens who value diversity, forgive readily, and have concern for the needs of each other, the school, the wider community, and the planet

We call the outcomes of our vision the ‘Seven Gifts’ and they are achieved through our school curriculum.  

Our curriculum intent is underpinned by our Christian values of kindness, forgiveness, honesty, faith, love and respect. The school’s curriculum intent links closely to its obligations to promote the British values: ensuring our pupils become valuable and fully rounded members of society who treat others with respect and tolerance, regardless of background. Our curriculum aims to promote the basic British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs.

The Lady Boswell’s Curriculum  

At Lady Boswell’s we have developed an exceptional school curriculum that far exceeds the National Curriculum, in a direct response to the needs of our community.  Our curriculum is designed so that pupils leave us with the skills necessary to thrive at Secondary School and beyond.  

Our ‘Seven Gifts’ are equally weighted – we strive for academic success but acknowledge that this is just as important as the other gifts that in enabling every child to be a well-rounded individual.  The curriculum sets an aspirational baseline for all of its pupils and ensures that children leave us with their heads inspired and hearts enriched to go into the wider world to use their privilege for good.  The curriculum pays particular focus on developing our children’s knowledge and experiences beyond Sevenoaks and provides them with opportunities to understand the wider world, to embrace diversity and to be courageous advocates with strong moral compasses.  Children leave us with the abilities to demonstrate God’s love through their words and actions.

We believe that the most effective way to achieve our vision is by developing our children as thinkers.  Our curriculum takes practices from the enquiry approach with a strong focus on enabling children to be autonomous and independent in their thinking and reasoning.  We also believe that children cannot think or remember without a strong knowledge base and seek to support them in acquiring the appropriate knowledge in order to develop schemas for greater knowledge retention. We look to the work of Daniel T Willingham and define learning as the efficient storage of new information into the long-term memory, which is most efficiently achieved where there is existing knowledge to connect to.

The School Curriculum: what we teach

The Lady Boswell’s school curriculum is organised into National Curriculum subjects alongside our enrichment and wellbeing offers. Spiritual, Moral, Social, and Cultural development plays an important role within individual subjects but also through our wider school ethos and planned activities.  Careful consideration has been given to the curriculum to ensure that the knowledge, task or resource has ‘earned its place’ and that there is a clear rationale in achieving the school’s vision and the ‘Seven Gifts’. 

More information on how the curriculum is structured and taught can be found in our Curriculum Policy:

We are incredibly proud of the curriculum offer at Lady Boswell's School. For more details of the whole school curriculum for specific subjects please follow the subject links on the right.  On each subject page you will find the relevant Curriculum on a Page Summary which gives a snapshot of how each subject contributes to our vision and is organised within school.  Should you have any specific questions regarding our curriculum, please direct them to the Senior Leadership Team via the office email address office@ladyboswells.kent.sch.uk.

Knowledge Organisers for each topic are available to pupils and parents, via the School's Google Classroom pages.  Details of curriculum coverage are published on the Curriculum > Class Information pages.

Our exceptional curriculum enables us to achieve exceptional outcomes for our pupils.  By the time our pupils leave us in Year 6 their attainment is significantly above local and national averages.  Our results consistently place us in the top 5% of performing schools across the UK.  Please do head to the statutory information pages of the website to see our most recent results.