Bickley Park School?s four quadrant learning curriculum is bold and aspirational in its vision for pupils, earning the Bromley all-boys? prep school a spot as a finalist. Headmaster Patrick Wenham tells us more
?We are called ?independent? schools for a reason: we can deliver an education we believe to be right for our cohort of pupils: not simply do what has always been done, or what everyone else is doing.
?I believe that schools should be future-focused, in a world that is rapidly changing beyond the school gates. Futurists say society and the workplace will be more fluid, less certain; the job for life will dwindle; 50% of jobs potentially available for today?s children in their adult lives have not been invented; technology will be king; core attributes of resilience, problem solving, creative thinking, collaboration and communication will be key. We have seen much of this in the Covid months. ?Bickley Park has been a boys? only 13+ school since 1918. Our teachers enjoy teaching boys and engage with their world. An education system that tacitly expects compliance and conformity can diminish a boys? engagement with learning. The question: ?What?s in it for me"? is amplified in a boys? head: if a compelling answer can be provided, the passion for learning is stoked.

?Bickley Park frames its education around four ?Quadrants of Learning? that link school experience to future needs. The Academic Quadrant promotes learning for learning?s sake with the premise: ?We live...