| SUBJECT |
AUTUMN TERM |
SPRING TERM |
SUMMER TERM |
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| ENGLISH |
- Prose
- Poetry Skills
- Travel Writing
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- Essays
- Argue, Persuade, Review
- General Poetry
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- Exam Preparation Individualised
- Claymation/ media unit
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| GEOGRAPHY |
- Erosion and weathering. Geography project
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- Geography project. Italy / Japan as a case study for more economically developed country.
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- Revision questions for Common Entrance.
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| HISTORY |
- The Protestant Reformation
- Henry’s divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn
- Supreme Head and Dissolution of Monasteries including Pilgrimage of Grace
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- Henry’s later years.
- Edward VI – religious policy, protectors, death, Northumberland V Mary
- Mary I – religious changes, marriage, rebellion, Turn or Burn, John Foxe
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- Revision for final examination
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| SCIENCE |
- Electricity
- Metals II
- The Earth and Beyond
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- Cells and Microscopes
- Health
- Structured Revision
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| RS |
Common Entrance New Testament topics
- Jesus’ life & teachings
- Outcasts
- Disciples
- Miracles
- Tranfiguration
- Related contemporary issues
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Common Entrance New Testament topics
- Jesus’ life & teachings
- parables
- Sentence
- Death
- Resurrection
- Related contemporary issues
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Common Entrance Contemporary characters and issues topics
- Darwin v Hawking
- Martin Luther King
- Mother Theresa
- Cicely Saunders
- Jackie Pullinger
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| LATIN |
- Future tense.
- EO – to go.
- Quamquam and ubi clauses.
- Demonstrative adjectives.
- Third person pronouns.
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- Comparison of adjectives.
- Prohibitions.
- Reflexive pronouns.
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| MATHEMATICS
Levels 1 and 2 |
Module 1
- Ratio and enlargement
- Graphs
- Percentage
Module 2
- Agnles
- Equations and brackets
Key skills
- To understand the concept of ratio
- To be able to enlarge figures on a grid
- Chasing angles (parallel lines, regular polygons etc.)
- To be able to take mean, median, mode and range further
- To be able to solve simple equations with and without brackets
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Module 3
- Circles
- Averages
- Pie Charts
Module 4
Key skills
- To be able to calculate the area and circumference of circles using formulas
- To revise the mean, median, mode and range
- Use averages in conjunction with pie charts
- Targeted revision
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Module 5
- Targeted revision
- Common Entrance
Key skills
- Revision is based on pupil’s own needs. They have had the opportunity to read through the Common Entrance syllabus in order to assess their own understanding of subject areas
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| MUSIC |
- Impressionism (how music ‘paints pictures’). We look at various visual and text based resources and use combinations of musical elements to convey the mood and story behind chosen stimuli.
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- Blues & Jazz (this project focuses on a social and cultural study of the black people of America and the music that evolved from the spiritual and gospel to the blues and jazz).
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- Form & Structure (How composers organise their musical ideas. Pupils listen and compose music in ‘rondo’, ‘binary’ and ‘ternary’ form).
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| PE |
- Basketball in the sports hall.
- Swimming
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- Evasion games, health related fitness with small-sided games in sports hall
- Swimming
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| GAMES |
- Rugby (boys)
- Hockey (girls)
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- Hockey (boys)
- Netball (girls)
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- Cricket (boys)
- Rounders (girls)
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| ICT |
- Internet safety
- Making an internet safety video
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- Stop motion animations
- The future of ICT
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- Metor Strike!
- If you were the head of Apple……
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| ART |
- Lino printing – black and white designs.
- Christmas card – drawings of the school
- Life drawing
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- Clay and modroc 3D projects
- Art History projects on life of some prominent sculptors
- Willow weaving
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- Clay and modroc 3D projects
- Art History projects on life of some prominent sculptors
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| DT |
- A ‘whole year’ final project, ‘design and make something worthwhile, something which you will be proud of’.
- Generate ideas and prepare design folders.
- Experiment on materials.
- Manufacture of chosen design.
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- Manufacture of chosen design (continued and continuing into Summer term).
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- Manufacture of chosen design (continued).
- Presentation of design folders.
- Evaluation of end product.
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| FRENCH |
Topics
- Holiday activities
- Weather
- Free-time activities
- Understanding tourist information
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Topics
- Simple health problems
- Shopping and pocket money
- Visiting a café or restaurant
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Topics
- Revision for Common Entrance
- Cultural awareness
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Grammar & Language
- Perfect tense with AVOIR and ETRE
- Imperfect tense (recognition)
- Near future revision
- Letter writing
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Grammar & Language
- Idiomatic expressions with AVOIR (eg. avoir mal)
- Partitive (and de / d’ with quantity and negatives)
- Demonstratives
- Infinitive after “il faut”, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, etc..
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Grammar & Language
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Speaking Preparation
- Free-time and holiday activities – TOPIC 4
- Role play practice
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Speaking Preparation
- Prepared topic (description of town, region, artist, celebration, historical figure or sportsman)
- Role play practice
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Speaking Preparation
- Weekly Common Entrance speaking practice with individual feedback
- Intensive role play practice
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| Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet |
Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet |
Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet |
| PSHE |
Myself & Relationships
- Managing change – incl visit by Senior School Head
- Making the most of my abilities – target setting etc.
- Myself as a learner – styles, considering others etc.
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Health
- Drug & Alcohol Education
- Sex Education and relationships
- Keeping Safe
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Citizenship
- Britain and the wider world
- Post CE Programme to incl link with local Special School & awareness of role of public institutions and finance
- Careers and options – visiting speaker
- Managing Finance (DSCF 2d)
- Media & Presenting Information
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