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The College's curriculum broadly follows and extends the National Curriculum to allow for a proper combination of breadth and specialisation. There are five yeargroups split between Upper and Lower Schools.
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Lower School |
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Upper School |
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Shell |
13 - 14 |
Lower Sixth |
16 - 17 |
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Remove |
14 - 15 |
Upper Sixth |
17 - 18 |
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Hundred |
15 - 16 |
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During the Shell year, pupils maintain the broadest possible curriculum in order to introduce them to the range of subjects available at Marlborough and options are kept to a minimum.
In the Remove and Hundred years, pupils embark on examination courses, mostly to GCSE, based on a compulsory core of English, Mathematics, Science, a modern foreign language, Physical Education and Religious Studies, accompanied by a range of optional subjects.
In the Upper School, the curriculum is based on AS and A level as entry qualifications for Higher Education. Throughout the school, the curriculum is supported by a wide range of academic extension and enrichment activities through societies, lectures, theatre trips, museum and gallery visits, debates, poetry readings, conferences and concerts creating a full co-curriculum which recognises that qualifications alone do not produce a broadly educated person. |