Our Vision statement

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KEVIGS aims to provide an education that is academically ambitious which supports the holistic development of all our students who will become resilient learners that contribute positively to society.

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Students who join us in Year 7 pass the 11+ and are normally performing at the highest levels in their primary school.  There is no such thing as a typical grammar school student at King Edward’s and we thrive on the social diversity that our broad catchment area provides: children join us from North East Lincolnshire; Market Rasen; Louth and its villages, and also from as far afield as Mablethorpe and Horncastle.

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Curriculum Intent

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Here at KEVIGS we offer a broad, knowledge rich and ambitious curriculum to challenge our very able students and inspire positive attitudes to learning.  The design of our curriculum ensures that all students:

• Develop excellent disciplinary knowledge, understanding and skills.

• Develop their levels of literacy, oracy and numeracy across all curriculum areas.

• Make excellent progress.

• Develop cultural capital and wider life skills that fully prepare them for their next phases of education and life beyond school.

• Are not disadvantaged the social context in which they live

• Are inspired to be effective life-long learners.

• Are happy and have a desire to pursue a healthy and active lifestyle. 

• Have the work ethic and confidence and ambition for a successful future.

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Alongside our academic curriculum we prioritise the holistic development of our students through our Personal Development curriculum and extra-curricular opportunities.  Our students are provided with the opportunity to discover and pursue their own interests, whilst developing empathy, respect for others and resilience. We focus on ensuring our students grow as well-rounded and responsible citizens who fulfil their potential and contribute positively to society.

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Curriculum Implementation

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From September 2025 we will operate a 3:2:2 curriculum to ensure our KS3 curriculum builds a solid foundation of knowledge and skills that allow student to make excellent progress by the end of Ks4 and 5.  Our curriculum in all key stages is designed to be challenging beyond the requirements of the national curriculum and remains broad to ensure students have opportunities to focus on their interest but keep their options open.  We follow a two-week, 50 period timetable allowing courses to utilise retrieval and spaced practice.

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At KS3 our students are provided with a broad and balanced curriculum with the return of Design Technology alongside The Arts, Humanities, Languages, Science, English Maths PE and RSHE.  In year 7 & 8 students study all subjects over a two-week timetable, In year 9 students will have dropped one of the Arts (Art, Drama, Media, Music), they will begin their study of single discipline science.   

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At KS4 our students continue to have a broad curriculum offer with the vast majority of students successfully completing 10+ GCSEs.  Our main curriculum offer is the EBacc with ~85% of students entered for the English Baccalaureate, for students who need additional support and flexibility a non-EBacc route is available.  We have a curriculum model that aims to challenge students academically and cater to their interests and career aspirations though our comprehensive Science curriculum.  Around 60% of our cohort complete Triple Science with each discipline awarded a separate GCSE grade, some students have the option to enter for Combined Science which results in a double award GCSE.

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At KS5 our students study three A levels with the opportunity to study supplementary courses such as Further Maths and the Extended Project Qualification.  We structure our main curriculum offer this way as it supportive of preparation for Higher education. The EPQ is part of our core curriculum as it focuses on developing the research and self-management skills that are expected at university and employment, it also provides students to study a topic that they have personal and/or professional interests in. 

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All students at KEVIGS (Year 7-13) follow a planned personal development curriculum through our RE, RSHE and Careers curriculum.  It has been planned using statutory guidance from the DFE, the PSHE association, the Lincolnshire daisies for Religion and Worldviews and the Gatsby benchmarks for our Careers curriculum.

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Curriculum plans and subject specific information

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Each subject/department has designed a robust, challenging and well-sequenced curriculum to ensure students are provided with opportunities to 'think hard', working at desirable difficulties. Schemes of learning have been designed to support students on a 7 year learning journey through backward planning that ensure students begin building core knowledge and developing learning skills throughout KS3 for success at both GCSE and A-Level courses.

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Subject specific curriculum plans are available for each department via the 'Subject Curriculum Plans' tab in this section. (currently under development).  If you would like to request copies of our curriculum plans for a particular subject, please email our Heads of Department directly.

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Two-week timetable

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At KEVIGS we follow a two- week, 50 period timetable; designed to ensure our students can access a broad set of subjects across the two weeks and that lesson time is sufficient for students to learn and apply knowledge and skills. It allows us to space lessons to support knowledge retrieval and spaced practice.