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The aim of Art at Westminster City School is to inspire students with creativity and imagination. Students will learn to critique and appreciate work from a rich variety of cultures and periods. They will also investigate and experiment with a wide range of materials and techniques from traditional drawing and craft to digital technologies, developing fine motor skills and coordination and a deep understanding of the key elements of Art.  

We continually aspire to provide a diverse extra-curricular program to encourage students to engage with the subject, dream bigger and express themselves. Art is a subject which has the ability to transcend language and geographical borders helping shape opinion and our environment. Our vision at Westminster City School is that every student will be offered not only a broad understanding of the curriculum, but confidence and understanding to participate in the great conversations of society, debating and shaping the future of the discipline.   

At Westminster City School we are proud to offer a wealth of musical opportunities both in and out of the classroom, which promote pride, success and achievement. We deliver a curriculum which stretches and challenges each student, motivating them to become critical thinkers and unlocking their potential to be lifelong learners. Additionally, we give special attention to provide many Music performance opportunities which has helped our students to develop character, determination, and self-confidence, empowering them with qualities they can take forward into their communities and careers.   

Our vision is that every student leaves Westminster City School as a well-rounded musician with a deep, rich understanding of a wide range of music, allowing them to join and advance the great conversations of society. Music has been, and forever will be a key contributor to culture worldwide as well as financially important to many global economies. Therefore, we believe that attaining good knowledge of this diverse, creative and influential subject is powerful, promotes transferrable skills and more than ever is greatly relevant to many walks of life. 

The vision for our students at Westminster City School is to raise their aspirations by nurturing a passion for learning, enriching their learning experiences, providing the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in adult life, and enabling them to secure outcomes that exceed their expectations.

Our students are provided with a supportive but challenging environment that develops and deepens their understanding of the value of enterprise and employability to both businesses and their communities. This is achieved through the philosophy of active learning where we aim to develop enterprise and employability skills, knowledge, and attitudes in our students during their lessons. 

We envisage that entrepreneurship teaching is to enrich our students with the ability to recognise commercial opportunities and the insight, self-esteem, knowledge, and skills to act on them. It includes instruction in opportunity recognition, commercializing a concept, marshaling resources in the face of risk, and initiating a business venture. The curriculum fosters an understanding of business disciplines such as management, marketing, information systems, and finance. Challenging students to be involved in interesting projects looking at how businesses develop and demonstrate imparting of knowledge of various themes is evolving.

Empowering the students to become independent thinkers; using inquiry, problem-based methods in lessons that are respectful of students’ varied abilities and interests, ensures a flow of young people into an industry or sector: making sure enough our young people are thinking of careers in particular companies or industries/sectors. 

Design Technology

The DT curriculum aims to equip students with powerful knowledge of the core principles addressed within the subject. We encourage students to be creative thinkers and risk takers, as they learn about new technologies and methods of construction. This allows students to develop an understanding of the complexities within the design process, which helps build a positive ethos in which they can thrive.

Through projects covered in DT, students will engage with topics addressing the greater conversations on how DT can impact society, through in-depth analysis of social, moral and environmental issues, including the developing world and diversity. Each project will offer a different challenge which will develop student's independence, empowering them with confidence and building character. 

Economics

The Economics department at Westminster City School aims to provide our students with not just a passion for the subject, but more importantly, to give students the skills to thrive in the job market in the future through a rich and contextual curriculum. This is achieved through focusing on the essential powerful knowledge needed to access the intricacies of the subject, as well as a consistent use of examples that our students can relate to, ranging from Economists from BAME backgrounds to a focus on development and inequality to develop our students' sense of compassion and understanding of different issues they won’t necessarily face firsthand. The overall aim is to allow our students to become critical thinkers and be able to successfully analyse and critique issues faced in the modern economy as well as issues they will personally face in their lives.  

Economics students at Westminster City School will be prepared to answer the tougher questions our societies face, such as why the level of inequality is increasing, is it fair or appropriate for inequality to exist and what solutions can we as Economists find to fix these global and national problems. This will be achieved though the teaching of quantitative skills as well as the teaching of dissecting arguments and concepts to allow for enhanced critical thinking and problem solving.

English

The English department at Westminster City School are dedicated to creating independent, thoughtful and resilient learners. Our powerful knowledge curriculum is designed to make English meaningful to students’ lives, allow them to think beyond their own experience and enable them to gain a greater understanding of their place in the context of the wider world.

We celebrate hard-work, risk taking and encourage students to develop as critical thinkers. Fortified with these life skills and this knowledge, we want our students to assume the mantle of personal agency and seize the opportunities that allow them to follow their chosen path. 

Geography

The Spanish department at Westminster City School aims to develop respectful, tolerant, thoughtful and linguistically aware learners who are able to express themselves in Spanish and fully embrace their ability to do so, at any stage of their learning.

We aim for our students to be curious about the extensive and varied Hispanic culture and the way Spanish language is used in both formal and informal contexts. Our robust curriculum enables our students to identify and understand the many lexical common references that Spanish and English languages have, as well as develop grammatical awareness of Spanish syntax.

Our students are trained to use their acquired grammatical skills to develop and analyse their own processing (listening & reading) and production (speaking & writing) of Spanish language. Learning Spanish will aid our students to be better equipped to understand today’s multicultural world and respond more effectively to social stimuli. Besides, it will provide them with an opportunity to consider Spanish language-related professions/occupations and even jobs in Hispanic countries, which would further expand their horizons. 

We believe that through Computer Science our students will become well rounded, resilient, creative, technical thinkers and problem solvers. With powerful knowledge students will be confident to take risks, be able to develop their computational thinking skills and have the knowledge to use software to develop efficient code in solving problems. Students will have opportunities to explore the wider social, moral, cultural and ethical issues associated with computer science and to develop as responsible computing practitioners. 

They will leave Westminster City equipped with the skills to prosper in the wide-ranging employment opportunities available for them. 

Mathematics

The vision for the Mathematics department at Westminster City School Our is to develop aspirational young people to thrive in a challenging and changing world. Our students will have a deep understanding of Mathematics so they can be creative and confident in solving problems and applying these skills to the wider world. 

Science

Our vision for Science at Westminster City School is to inspire our students to become skilled critical thinkers, problem solvers, innovators, and team players.  We aim to develop the minds of our students by providing them with powerful knowledge that allows them to think beyond their own day to day experiences to become life-long learners, supporting creativity, curiosity, objectivity, and independence for all our students. 

At the conclusion of their studies at Westminster City School, our students will be capable of applying their scientific knowledge to contemporary issues and making connections between scientific disciplines and the wider world in general. This will allow them to participate in the great conversations in Science such as climate change, artificial intelligence and conservation. Hopefully pursuing post-secondary education or careers in the fields of science.