Concerns over new curriculum at St Paul’s Catholic College in Burgess Hill: school responds to parents’ worries about EBacc

Some parents contacted the Middy to say they were worried the changed curriculum would not support the uniqueness of every child.

They were also concerned that the EBacc would add too much to the students’ GCSE workload and could be bad for their mental health after they had missed a lot of classroom time in the pandemic.

Headteacher Mr Rob Carter said: “At St Paul’s we are proud of providing an innovative, engaging and inspiring curriculum.

“This has led to students flourishing and achieving their God-given potential and results being consistently in the top 10 per cent nationally at GCSE and A level.”

He continued: “In the last publicly published results in 2019 we were the top performing secondary school in West Sussex when looking at the progress of our students.

“The school has also retained the ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted grading since 2007.