Secondary School

THE SECONDARY CURRICULUM

The Gloryville High School offer an enriched, school developed curriculum which is a rich and unique blend of the best from the British curriculum, and the Nigerian curriculum.
The curriculum with a wide scope of learning includes subjects not presently included in the Nigerian curriculum and adding to the content and context of existing subjects. We have identified learning outcomes at each stage of development and use up-to-date teaching methodologies, quality text books, materials and resources.

Our main pride is the ease with which our children cope and are able to stand out in schools both within and outside Nigeria. Children are encouraged to pay attention in the class and participate actively in lessons.

The Academic Programme

The Junior High schools run a three-year programme. The objective of the academic programme is to develop the knowledge and intellectual skills required for success. Elements of the academic programme are as follows:

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

1. English Language
2. Mathematics
3. Basic Science
4. Basic Technology
5. ICT
6. Social Studies (History, Geography, Citizenship)
7. Home Economics
8. Creative and Cultural Art
9. French
10. Music
11. Physical and Health Education
12. Agricultural Science
13. Yoruba
14. Diction and Phonics

Homework and Assignments

Learners in this stage are dependent and can are expected to do their Homework and Assignments without supervision or assistance. Homework defaulters and tardy presentation are penalised as deemed appropriate by the school.

Continuous Assessment/Examination

Continuous Assessment is all through each term and this makes up part of the term's total mark of the end of term examination.

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

The Federal Ministry of education has introduced a new curriculum for Senior Secondary School Students starting with the 2011/2012 SS I students.

The New CURRICULUM

The new curriculum is broadly divided into three categories as: Compulsory cross-cutting core subjects, Field of Specialization and Elective. There are 4 fields of specializations as follows: Humanities, Science/Mathematics, Business Studies and Technology. Subjects under each of the fields are as follows:

 

CORE SUBJECTS	HUMANITIES	SCIENCE/ MATHS	BUSINESS STUDIES	TECHNOLOGY
English	Nigerian Language	Biology	Account	T-D
Mathematics	Lit-In-English	Chemistry	Store Mgt	Metal Work
Trade	Geography	Physics	Office Practice	Basic Electricity
ICT	Government	Further Math	Insurance	Electronics
Civic Education	CRS	Agriculture	Commerce	Auto Mechanics
	IRS	Physical Education		Building Construction
	History	Health Education		Wood Work
	History			Home Mgt
	Visual Art			Foods & Nutrition
	Music			Clothing & Textile
	French
	Arabic
	Economics

 

Implementation/strategy

1. The new curriculum takes effect from September 2011. However, the old SS curriculum is to be phased out systematically over a period of three years i.e. September 2011 to June 2014.
2. All students are to offer all 5 core compulsory subjects.
3. Students are to choose 3 or 4 subjects from their field of specialization i.e. Humanities, Science/Math, Business Studies or Technology.
4. Students are to choose their compulsory entrepreneurship from the available list of 35 trades.
5. Students may choose 1 elective subject outside their field of specialization provided that the total number of examinable subjects is NOT more than nine.
6. In summary, students must offer: 5-core subjects, 3-4 subjects from field of specialization and 1 elective subject.

Thus, we advise our students to choose from the list of subject combination below:

 

	HUMANITIES	MATHS/SCIENCE	BUSINESS STUDIES
CORE SUBJECTS	English Language	English Language	English Language
	Mathematics	Mathematics	Mathematics
	Trade	Trade	Trade
	ICT	ICT	ICT
	Civic Education	Civic Education	Civic Education
SPECIALIZATION	Yoruba/French	Biology	Account
	Lit-in-English	Physics	Store Management
	Government	Chemistry	Commerce
	CRS	Further Maths	Further Maths
ELECTIVE		Technical Drawing Agricultural Science	Economics
EXTRA SUBJECTS	Music	Music	Music

 

The Entrepreneurship

According to the new curriculum, every student must choose one trade from a list of 35 trades. However, after much consultation, the school has carefully selected two trades from which every student can make a choice. These are: Applied Electricity, and Garment Making.

We sincerely hope that this summary note would go a long way to give you a brief explanation of the new curriculum as well as the view of the school.

Homework and Assignments

Learners in this stage are dependent and can are expected to do their Homework and Assignments without supervision or assistance. Homework defaulters and tardy presentation are penalised as deemed appropriate by the school.

Continuous Assessment/Examination

Continuous Assessment is all through each term and this makes up part of the term's total mark of the end of term examination.