Core curriculum

Core Philosophy

Five connected journeys through knowledge, belief, identity, justice and action. Each year has its own narrative, but ideas return in deeper combinations.

Year journeys

Follow the widening route

Year 7 is the first published slice. Later years remain visible without creating dead destinations.

07Year 7Foundations: Gods, Logic and TruthBegin with knowledge, encounter several traditions, and finish by asking what reality itself might be.PublishedOpen
08Year 8Boundaries: Right, Wrong and Who We AreExamine evil, identity, ethics, practice, shared traditions and conflict.Forthcoming
09Year 9Decisions: Life, Death and Everything BetweenA year-long bioethics programme organised through changing practical dilemmas.Forthcoming
10Year 10Perspectives: Beauty, Tolerance and the Examined LifeTest the limits of tolerance, wisdom and aesthetic judgement.Forthcoming
11Year 11Action: Thought, Justice and the Wider WorldTurn philosophical judgement toward injustice, Africa and the world beyond school.Forthcoming