The academic curriculum at Highgate aims to introduce students at each level to intellectual stimulation and challenging ideas. Academic study in lessons and at home is supplemented with a multitude of visits, activities and talks.

Year 9

Breadth of intellectual experience is the primary aim in Year 9: students study a wide range of subjects, and we hope this will enable them to make well-informed choices for future study.

GCSE

During the course of Year 9 students make decisions about which subjects to study for GCSE. At Highgate students usually take nine GCSE subjects.

AS and A2

As students approach Y12, the first year of the Sixth Form, they are asked to focus their interest on four subjects. Students discuss with teachers, and their tutor and Housemaster, and also take a careers test and interview to help them determine what direction they might best follow. Students choose four subjects for examination at AS, at the end of Year 12, and then usually continue with three or four of these in Year 13.

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