Curriculum

LMaS is a specialist sixth form college for high-attainers who are excited about mathematics and who want be part of a community of equally enthusiastic learners and teachers. Our unique curriculum has been imaginatively designed to ensure you achieve highly and leave LMaS with many and meaningful choices available to you: in your learning, in your career, in your life.

The design of the LMaS curriculum enables and ensures

  • the highest-quality teaching of mathematics and mathematical sciences in brand-new facilities;
  • preparation for the next stages of your educational and employment journey;
  • support for you to develop the skills and attributes that will enable and empower you to make significant future contributions to this region, to your community, and to global society;
  • every aspect of teaching, learning and assessment is research-led and evidence-informed, so that you have an exceptional experience in every lesson, every activity, every time;
  • productive struggle in every lesson: real learning happens when you’re not just cruising through easy exercises, but when you’re tackling tasks that really make you think, tasks that give you a ‘sweaty brain’!
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In Year 12 and Year 13 you study A-level Mathematics and A-level Further Mathematics. You take A-level examinations in both of these subjects at the end of Year 13.

In Year 12 you also study two subjects from A Level Physics, A Level Chemistry, A Level Computer Science or A Level Mandarin Chinese. Some students take an AS-level examination in one of these two subjects at the end of Year 12; some students continue with four A level subjects in Year 13; some focus on three. Everyone takes the A level exams in these subjects at the end of Year 13.

You get 5 hours of teaching each week in each subject.

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In Year 12 you also follow two programmes that are unique to LMaS. You complete the Leeds Mathematics Certificate (LMC), an extended super-curricular research project, and you also have weekly Advanced Mathematical Problem-Solving (AMPS) lessons. In your AMPS lessons and your LMC project you explore mathematics and the mathematical sciences further and deeper than examinations ask you to. These experiences of ‘things to come’ will help you make informed and successful choices as you plan your academic journey after LMaS.

In Year 12 you also have, once a fortnight, a Topical Talk session. This is a programme we offer at LMaS in partnership with the Economist Educational Foundation. In each session we take an issue that is current and relevant and, drawing on news articles and other media, explore it in detail and in depth. You can read more about the programme, and see some examples of the sessions, here.

You can read more about each subject we offer on these pages: