| SUBJECT |
AUTUMN TERM |
SPRING TERM |
SUMMER TERM |
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| ENGLISH |
- Prose
- Extracts/Short Stories
- Poetry Skills
- Travel Writing
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- Essays
- Argue, Persuade, Review
- General Poetry
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- Exam Preparation Individualised
- Drama/Shakespeare
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| MATHEMATICS |
- Simultaneous equations
- Circle area & circumference
- Straight line graphs
- Parabolas
- Pythagoras theorem
- Trial and improvements
- Harder percentages
- Binomial expansion
- Factorising trinomials
- Practice scholarship papers from the requisite schools leading to reinforcement of topics as required.
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Practice scholarship papers from the requisite schools leading to reinforcement of topics as required. |
Practice on the harder papers (eg. papers 2 and 4). |
| GEOGRAPHY |
- Erosion and weathering. Geography project
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Geography project. Italy / Japan as a case study for more economically developed country. |
Revision questions for Common Entrance (if applicable). |
| HISTORY |
- Great Monarch/ most interesting character
- Elizabeth I or their choice – all
- A favourite century – Framlingham
- Peasants Revolt – all
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- Black Death – Culford / Langley
- Qualities required by a good historian – Framlingham
- Life in a medieval castle or monastery – Gresham
- Revision for all
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- Completion of an extended study on a chosen topic
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| SCIENCE |
- Electricity
- Metals II
- Light and Sound
- The Earth and Beyond
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- Cells and Microscopes
- Health
- Structured Revision
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- Structured revision if applicable
- Famous scientist project
- Extended investigations
- Biology – nutrient requirements for plant growth
- Chemistry – chromatography of plant or foods
- Physics – force and motion
- Further fieldwork in the grounds and use of ICT to produce a poster
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| RS |
- New Testament Jesus’ teaching * Jesus’ life, death and resurrection * Revision + Topic
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| LATIN |
- Future tense
- EO – to go
- Quamquam and ubi clauses
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Third person pronouns
- Comparison of adjectives
- Prohibitions
- Reflexive pronouns
- Passive verbs
- Perfect passive
- 5th declension nouns
- Time
- Purpose clauses
- Subjunctives
- Indirect commands
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- Past particle passives
- Place
- Ablative absolute
- Indirect statement
- 4th declension nouns
- Deponent verbs
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- CE practice (if applicable) Revision
OR
- Project on Roman life
- Introduction to Greek
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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 and 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 and 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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- Invasion 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 |
- Gathering/creating evidence to put towards an ISEB certificate of achievement in ICT
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- Gathering/creating evidence to put towards an ISEB certificate of achievement in ICT
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Some or all of the following small units:
- Alternatives to windows operating systems
- Viruses and spyware
- Make a PC
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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).
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- Manufacture of chosen design (continued).
- Presentation of design folders.
- Evaluation of end product.
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| ART |
- Lino printing – black and white designs.
- Christmas card – drawings of the school.
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Clay and modroc 3D projects
Art History projects on life of some prominent sculptors
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- Clay and modroc 3D projects
- Art History projects on life of some prominent sculptors
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| FRENCH |
Topics
- Revision of Year 7 topics
- Holiday activities + weather
- Free-time activities
- Understanding tourist information
- Environment
- Essay writing
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Topics
- Simple health problems
- Shopping and pocket money
- Visiting a café or restaurant
- Revision
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Topics
- Revision for Common Entrance if applicable OR
- Introduction to German OR
- Cultural awareness about France
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Grammar and Language
- Present tense revision
- Perfect tense with AVOIR and ETRE
- Imperfect tense
- Après avoir / être + past participle
- Avant de + infinitive, afin de + infinitive
- Present participle (en + ——ant)
- Direct object pronouns
- Future and conditional
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Grammar and Language
- Idiomatic expressions with avoir (eg. avoir mal)
- Partitive (and de / d’ with quantity and negatives)
- Demonstratives
- Infinitive after “il faut”, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir
- Revision
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Introduction to German
- Greetings
- Days, months, numbers, dates
- Name, age, birthday
- Countries, nationality
- Sport and hobbies
- Opinions with “weil”
- Haben and sein
- Present tense
- Useful role play phrases
- Weekly vocab tests in German
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| Speaking Preparation |
Speaking Preparation |
Cultural awareness
- Famous Frenchies
- Louis XIV, Versailles, Molière, La Fontaine
- French Revolution, symbols of France
- Food tasting
- Pétanque
- Comics (Astérix, Tintin)
- Tongue twisters and proverbs
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- Free-time/holiday activities – TOPIC 4
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- Prepared topic (description of town, region, artist, celebration, historical figure or sportsman)
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| Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB vocab booklet |
Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB 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 finance
- Careers and options – visiting speaker
- Managing Finance
- Media & Presenting Information
- Awareness of finance, responsibility and careers through use of The Real Game
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