How choice is framed

When Modern Foreign Languages was mentioned, the main reason for not offering more than Spanish and Mandarin was that giving students more choice in the subjects that doing so would run counter to the schools policy of core cohorts i.e. groups of young people and adults who work together all of the time.

This seems to me to be one of the major enabling factors in the organisation of the school. Whilst students have comparatively less choice than those in our school, there are opportunities for personalisation within subjects and projects, and this personalised approach is accentuated by the close relationships which are immediately evident and seem to be a natural result in so much contact time.

This is where the pay off comes, despite what might seem on the surface to be a more prescribed and condensed curriculum.  What I have observed so far today has been incredibly mature and real relationships between staff and students.