Curriculum – Year 7

SUBJECT AUTUMN TERM SPRING TERM SUMMER TERM
 
ENGLISH
  • Prose Fiction Unit
  • Reports
  • Christmas focussed Activity
  • Murder, Mystery, Suspense and Thrills
  • Media and Non-Fiction
  • Post 1914
  • Poetry
  • Shared Texts: Novel/Drama/Poetry
  • Around a particular Theme
  • Including some Pre 1914
HISTORY
  • Revision on Town Life and Guilds
  • Henry III and Simon de Montfort
  • Edward I and Parliament
  • Edward I and Wales and Scotland
  • Edward II (Bannockburn)
  • Edward III and 100 Years’ War
  • The Black Death
  • Richard II and the Peasant’s Revolt
  • Richard II overthrown
  • Henry IV
  • Henry V
  • Joan of Arc
  • Henry IV and the Wars of the Roses
  • Edward IV
  • Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
  • Bosworth
  • Henry VII and Tudor settlement
  • Henry VII, Pretenders, finance and foreign policy
  • Henry VIII introduction
MATHEMATICS SET 1
  • Brackets and equations
  • Brackets, equations and fractions
  • Simultaneous equations
  • Circle – area & circumference
  • Straight line graphs
  • Pythagoras theorem
  • Parabolas
  • Harder percentages
  • Trial and improvement
  • Revision of harder CE syllabus
  • Practice harder CE papers
  • Binomial expansion
  • Factorising trinomials
  • Start working on past scholarship papers.
MATHEMATICS SET 2
  • Conversion graphs
  • Travel graphs
  • Solids
  • Mean, mode, median and range
  • Revision of four rules
  • Factors and multiples
  • Prime numbers / factors
  • Squares and square roots
  • Handling data
  • Frequency tables
  • Pie charts
  • Four rules with decimals
  • Measurement
  • Metric system
  • Algebra
  • Multiples and Powers of x
  • Algebra and indices
  • Substitution
  • Formulae
  • Parallel lines and angles
  • Polygons and angles
  • Fractions, decimals and percentages
  • Profit and loss
  • Ratio
  • Scale drawings
  • Unitary method
  • Enlargement
  • Straight line graphs
  • Circle – area & circumference
  • Transformations
GEOGRAPHY
  • Industry and the siting thereof.
  • Change of industries over the years.
  • The environment and who cares for it.
  • Energy, renewable vs non-renewable.
  • Population distribution using Kenya as an example.
SCIENCE
  • Particles
  • Metals I
  • Light and Sound
  • Forces
  • Reproduction
  • Green Plants
  • Habitats
RS
  • Old Testament stories – God, human nature and covenant
  • Old Testament stories – leaders and prophets
  • Islam
LATIN
  • Adjectives.
  • Introduction to CE paper format
  • Imperatives
  • Infinitives
  • Numbers
  • Imperfect tense
  • Perfect tense
  • Noun-adjective agreement
  • Irregular perfect tense
  • CE paper practice
  • 3rd declension nouns
MUSIC
  • World music (a musical journey through Indonesia, Africa, North India & Jamaica)
  • Ground Bass (A study of this 17th century compositional technique which is still used by contemporary composers. Pupils compose their own ’ground’ and apply it to contemporary dance and film music)
  • Film music (pupils study the history of music for film, learn relative musical vocabulary and compose music for a chosen film extract which is performed in class as a final assessment piece)
PE
  • Basketball
  • Swimming
  • Basketball and small-sided games in sports hall.
  • Swimming
  • Athletics
  • Invasion games
ICT
  • An introduction to email
  • An introduction to Serifs Drawplus
  • Microsoft Excel – Pocket money manager
  • An introduction to  Google documents
  • Making websites in Google apps
GAMES
  • Rugby (boys)
  • Hockey (girls)
  • Hockey (boys)
  • Netball (girls)
  • Cricket (boys)
  • Rounders (girls)
FRENCH Topics

  • Time, dates, numbers and prices
  • Personal description
  • Family, friends and pets
  • Meeting people
Topics

  • House, home, daily routine and chores
  • Description of a town or region
  • Finding the way and using transport
  • Writing project “brochure sur une ville réelle ou imaginaire” (Power Point)
Topics

  • Life and work at school + jobs
  • Language of the classroom
  • Revision
  • Preparation for trip to Paris
Grammar & Language

  • Adjectival agreement
  • Comparative and superlative
  • Possessive adjectives (mon / ton / son / notre / votre / leur)
  • Relative pronoun “qui’”
  • Present tense of -er / -ir / -re verbs + irregular verbs
  • AVOIR and ETRE
Grammar & Language

  • Prepositions and conjunctions (“où”)
  • Reflexive verbs (present tense) + negative
  • Near future + je voudrais / j’aimerais
  • Irregular verbs ALLER + FAIRE (present tense)
Grammar & Language

  • Imperative
  • Revision of near future (future plans)
  • Interrogative forms
  • Depuis
  • Relative pronouns “que” and “qu’”
Speaking Preparation

  • Personal description, family, friends and pets – TOPIC 1
  • Role play practice
Speaking Preparation

  • House, home, daily routine and chores – TOPIC 2
  • Role play practice
Speaking Preparation

  • Life and work at school – TOPIC 3
  • Role play practice
Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet
ART
  • Portraits – self portraits, Venetian masks, project for art history in sketch books
  • Portraits – work related to National Gallery visit
  • Cartoons, caricatures
  • Paint, collage and mixed media work
DT
  • Clocks, made from recycled/reused objects
  • Storage solutions
  • Trophy design
PSHE  Myself & Relationships

  • Diversity & Difference – race, religion, stereotyping etc.
  • Organising Yourself – time, homework etc.
  • Self appraisal
 Citizenship

  • My immediate Community
  • What is democracy?
  • Making choices
  • Debate current affairs

 

 

 Health

  • Managing my own health – healthy eating and exercise
  • Puberty – emotional and body changes etc.
  • Awareness of Personal Space
  • Asking for help