| Art | Skills Project: Year 9 Student's will be introduced to
Introduction to GCSE.
Assessment objectives and outline of the course.
Observational drawing - Pine cone project - learning about media.
Abstract Art - painting and relief collage. | Printmaking - Lino printing.
Learning about different types of printmaking.
Monoprinting with multi layer inks.
Creating a four colour lino print on the theme of Architecture. | Pop Art and 3D cardboard sculpture.
Learning about the work of the Pop artists with a focus on Claes Oldenburg.
Visual artist presentation.
Developing a cardboard and paper food sculpture.
| Surrealism.
Visual presentation about Surrealism.
Surrealist self portraits.
Development of self portraits, photographic imagery and digital art.
| Surrealism- self portrait painting.
Year 10 exam 'In the style of'. Preparation work on Surrealism. Final piece developed from direct observation of a range of objects.
Ceramic clay heads inspired by Surrealist Art - thumb pots, slab work and coiling, joining techniques, modelling and carving. | Presentation and mounting of work for portfolio.
Independent project - Developing own ideas from a starting point and producing an independent piece linking to skills learnt in year 9. |
| Biology | Cell Biology: Animal and plant cell function and structure. Microscopy, cell specialisation and differentiation. Culturing Microbes (Biology only). Required practicals 1 and 2. | Cell division and cell transport: Chromosomes, mitosis and the cell cycle. Diffusion, osmosis and active transport. Adaptations of exchange surfaces. Required practical 3. | Animal tissues, organs and organ systems: Digestive system, enzymes, heart, blood and blood vessels. Required practicals 4 and 5. | Non-communicable disease: Coronary heart disease, healthy lifestyle, interactions of diseases and cancer. | Plant tissues, organs and organ systems: transpiration and translocation, sources and uses of minerals. | Infection and response: Communicable disease (viral, fungal, bacterial and protist). Human defence systems, vaccination, monoclonal antibodies (Biology only) and drug discovery and development. Disease in plants (Biology only). |
| Business Studies | What a business is, how they operate and the reasons for starting a business, enterprise and entrepreneurs (careers), creating a business plan, how a business can be set up and owned and how to select an appropriate business location. | Functions in a business, the sectors in which they operate, identify a range of stakeholders and conduct primary and secondary research to inform a business plan. Careers - students to choose a business they may have an interest in career wise. | Selecting an appropriate marketing mix including product, price, place and promotion. 'Dynamic nature of business' by looking at how external forces e.g. technology, the economy, legislation and environmental aspects impact businesses. Careers - economic employment. | Effects of competition, producing a SWOT analysis, methods of production, types of employment (careers) and organisational structures. | Importance of managing finance in a business, financial terms and making financial calculations.
Final business plan updates. It will then be completed and printed. | Careers in business including recruitment process and documentation, CV writing, exploring jobs and careers in Business. Visit to Farmer Brown's and mini-project on sectors. |
| Chemistry | Atomic Structure: Development of the model of the atom, subatomic particles, relative atomic mass (including calculation from relative abundance data), electronic structure.
| The Periodic Table: Development of the Periodic Table, metals, non-metals and chemistry of Groups 1, 7, 0 and the transition metals. | Bonding and Structure: formation of ions, basics of ionic, covalent and metallic bonding. Relationship between structure and properties of metals. | Bonding and Structure (cont.): The relationship between Ionic and covalent bonding, structure and properties including carbon allotropes and nanoscience. | Chemical Change (I): Metal oxides, the reactivity series, oxidation, reduction and the extraction of metals. Reactions of acids with metals, the neutralisation of acids, salt production, pH scale and neutralisation. | Chemistry of the Atmosphere: The composition and evolution of the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide and methane as greenhouse gases, common atmospheric pollutants and their sources. |
| Computer Science | Programmin 1 - (Data Types, Mathematical Operators, Variables, Input, Casting, Libraries and Random Numbers)
Data Representation 1 - (Analogue and digital signals, binary, binary addition, hexadecimal, character sets, bitmaps) | Programming 1 continued - (Relational Operators, Selection)
Bebras Challenge
Data Representation 1 continued (File sizes and Metadata)
Cyber Security - (Social Engineering, Malware, Vulnerabilities) | Programming 1 continued - (Logical Operators, Constants, Review)
Cyber Security continued - (Anti-malware, Backup and Recovery, Redundancy, Encryption) | Programming 1 continued (Elif, Flowcharts, Assessment, Review)
Cyber Security continued - (Physical Security, Access Control, Penetration Testing, User Training) | Programming 1 continued (Sub Programs, Parameters, Decomposition)
Algorithms - Searching (Linear and Binary Search) | Programming 1 continued (Abstraction, Functions, Turtle)
Algorithms - Sorting (Merge and Bubble Sort) |
| Design Technology | Year 9 A of the exam paper
3.1.1 New and emerging technologies
3.1.1.1 Industry and people
3.1.1.2 Enterprise
3.1.1.3 Culture and society
3.1.1.4 Environment and sustainability
3.1.1.5 Production systems
3.1.1.6 Critical evaluation
NEA Focus
Section E
| 3.1.2 Energy generation and storage
3.1.2.1 Fossil fuels and Nuclear power
3.1.2.2 Renewable sources of energy
3.1.2.3 Energy generation and storage
Review Section 3.1.1
NEA Focus
Mini NEA
| 3.1.3 Developments in new materials
3.1.3.1 Modern materials
3.1.3.2 Smart materials
3.1.3.3 Composites
3.1.3.4 Technical textiles
NEA Focus
| 3.1.4 Systems approach to designing
3.1.5.Mechanical devices
Review of
3.1.1 New and emerging technologies
3.1.2 Energy generation and storage
3.1.3 Developments in new materials
NEA Focus
| 3.1.6 Materials and their working properties
3.1.6 Paper and Board
3.1.6.2 Natural and manufactured timbers
3.1.6.3 Metals and alloys
3.1.6.4 Polymers
3.1.6.5 Textiles
NEA Focus mini Same time as year 10
| Theory
3.1.6.2 Material properties
Review of
3.1.4 Systems approach to designing
3.1.5 Mechanical devices
3.1.6 Materials and their working properties
3.1.6.2 Material properties
NEA Focus
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| English | Literary Heritage - The development of the Gothic including short stories, Victorian mystery stories, extracts from gothic horror novels, the presentation of vampires, and gothic ideas in poetry.
Careers | Working in Film | Gothic scheme continued
The power of language - rhetoric and argument | includes letter writing | Narrative & Genre: new perspectives - a contemporary novel study (Tsunami Girl / Medusa / The Hate U Give) | Narrative & Genre: short story selection | includes creative writing
Careers | Storytelling - journalist and author | Worlds & Lives: contemporary voices in poetry - Caleb Femi
| Literary Heritage - Poetry of Conflict (for GCSE Literature) |
| French | Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships
Grammar: revising avoir/être, position of adjectives, reflexive verbs and future tense | Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology
Grammar: present tense of regular and irregular verbs, aller/faire | Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, reading and sports
Grammar: present and perfect tense revision, perfect tense with être verbs, subordinating conjunctions, sequencers | Customs and celebrations: food and eating out, different cuisines, celebrations and festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals
Grammar: verb + infinitive, quantities, perfect tense revision, imperfect tense | Home and local area: describing furniture, our home, household chores, talking about our surroundings and different types of accommodation and describing your town and what there is to do.
Grammar: position and agreements of adjectives, negative phrases, demonstrative adjectives | Celebrity
Grammar: vouloir/pouvoir/devoir + infinitive, conditional tense (focusing on vouloir and aimer), imperfect tense revision |
| Geography | Ecosystems:
Components, balance between components, impact of changing a component. Global ecosystems - distribution and characteristics.
Tropical rainforests:
physical characteristics, plant and animal adaptations, changing rates of deforestation, causes of deforestation. | Tropical rainforests:
Impacts of deforestation, value of the rainforest, strategies to manage sustainably, palm oil plantations.
Cold Environments:
UK physical landscapes.
River landscapes in the UK - Long and cross profile | The changing economic world:
Development indicators, quality of life, demographic transition model, population pyramids, causes and consequences of uneven development, strategies to reduce the development gap, tourism in Jamaica. | Nigeria, an NEE:
Importance regionally and globally, geographical context of Nigeria, the countries global trading relationships, the changing industrial sector, the role of TNCs, international aid, the environmental impact of economic development, the effects of development on quality of life. | River landscapes in the UK:
Long and cross profile, characteristics and formation of landforms, physical and human factors affecting flooding, hydrographs, hard engineering and soft engineering strategies and an example of a flood management scheme. | River Landscapes and Fieldwork:
Horncastle Flood Management Scheme, river fieldwork study, fieldwork write up and skills.
Careers: Hydrographic Surveyor (Unifrog) |
| German | Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships
Grammar: revising haben/sein in present tense, using (ir)regular verbs, adjectives and future tense
| Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology and phones
Grammar: use of present tense to refer to future, (in)direct object pronouns, perfect and imperfect tense
| Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, food and sports
Grammar: separable verbs in present, perfect and future tense, using "would like", revising present and perfect tense, revising gern/lieber/am liebsten to express preferences
| Customs and celebrations: celebrations and festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals
Grammar: quantities, using adjectives as nouns, perfect tense revision
| Home and local area: describing furniture, rooms, our home, talking about our surroundings, town and what there is to do.
Grammar: plurals of nouns, prepositions and cases, using inversion to form questions, modal verb "koennen"
| Celebrity; lifestyle: eating habits, comparing old and new health habits
Grammar: using quantifiers and intensifiers, in plus dative/accusative case, revising modal verbs, using als when talking about the past
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| History | GCSE American West; 1835 - 1895; focus on the life on the Plains Indians; how they survive, the importance of the Buffalo and how they adapt to a nomadic lifestyle. Then study the reasons why migrants moved westwards, with a focus on Manifest Destiny and the importance of the Oregon Trail | GCSE American West, 1835 - 1895: study of the experiences of the early migrants, especially the Donner Party, the Mormons and the Gold Rushes. The reasons for tension between the migrants and Plains Indians will be studied. The Impact of the American Civil War on migration will then be studied. | GCSE American West, 1835 - 1895; focus on the development of the west by migrants. The topics will be the development of farming, the start and expansion of the cattle industry, and the end of the Open Range. Will also study the impact of rail roads on migration, settlement and the Plains Indians. | GCSE American West, 1835 - 1895; focus on the impact of Government policy on the Plains Indians (inc. Grant's Peace Plan, the Indian Wars of 1862 - 1868 and the Battle of Little Big Horn). Will study law and order issues covering mining towns to the Johnson County War. | Anglo-Saxon & Norman England, 1060 - 1089; focus on life in Anglo-Saxon England, inc. societal structure, the church, local government, and the uprising of Tostig in 1065. Following-on, the death of Edward the Confessor and the competition over the succession. | Anglo-Saxon & Norman England, 1060 - 1089; focus on the succession crisis of 1066, (the battles, and the eventual submission of the earls). Then, will study the early Norman period with an emphasis on the Marcher Lords, the building of castles and the revolts (1068-1071). |
| Mathematics | Unit 1: Number – Review Y7 number work, standard form, surds.
Y9 BASELINE ASSESSMENT
| Unit 2: Algebra – Basics review, quadratics (solving by factorising, quadratic formula and completing the square), sequences.
TERM ASSESSMENT
| Unit 3: Interpreting & Representing Data - Averages and range, representing and interpreting data, scatter graphs
Unit 4: Fractions, ratios & Percentages – review with special focus on percentages, ratio & proportion.
TERM ASSESSMENT
| Unit 5: Angles & Trigonometry – Review angle rules, Pythagoras’ Theorem & trigonometry. STEM link to real life applications.
TERM ASSESSMENT
| Unit 6: Graphs – Review the basics, linear graphs & coordinate geometry, quadratic, cubic & other graphs.
Unit 7: Area & Volume - Perimeter, area and circles, 3D forms and volume, cylinders, cones and spheres, Accuracy and bounds
TERM ASSESSMENT
| Unit 8: Transformations & Constructions – review transformations constructions, loci & bearings.
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT
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| Music | Solo Performance baseline. Solo performances in class are then on a rotation to begin each lesson for the remainder of ks4.
Grade 3 and 4 theory and aural skills.
Focus on Rhythm and Metre in performance, composition and appraising tasks.
Perform in the soloist's concert last week of term. | Ensemble performance baseline - prepare and perform a group piece for the Christmas Concert.
Grade 3 and 4 theory and aural skills.
Focus on Pitch and Instrument recognition and techniques in performance, composition and appraising tasks.
| Grade 3 and 4 theory and aural skills.
Focus on Tonality and Sonority in performance, composition and appraising tasks.
Perform in the soloist's concert last week of term. | Grade 3 and 4 theory and aural skills.
Focus on Harmony in performance, composition and appraising tasks. | Grade 3 and 4 theory and aural skills.
Focus on Structure in performance, composition and appraising tasks.
Solo performance progress update | Ensemble performance progress update - prepare and perform a group piece for the Summer Celebration.
Grade 3 and 4 theory and aural skills.
Focus on Texture in performance, composition and appraising tasks.
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| Personal Development & Careers | Health and well-being.
Peer influence, substance use and gangs - Healthy and unhealthy friendships, assertiveness, substance misuse, and gang exploitation. | Living in the wider world (careers)
Setting goals - Learning strengths, career options and goal setting as part of the GCSE options process. | Relationships.
Respectful relationships - Families and parenting, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and relationship changes. | Health and well-being.
Healthy lifestyle - Diet, exercise, lifestyle balance and healthy choices, and first aid. | Relationships.
Intimate relationships - Relationships and sex education including consent, contraception, the risks of STIs, and attitudes to pornography. | Living in the wider world. (careers)
Employability skills - Employability and online presence. |
| Physical Education | 3 sports in practical tailored to students capabilities [term 1 and 2]
TOPIC 1: Socio-cultural influences on participation. Students understand the factors that affect participation in sport and the barriers that may prevent participation, along with methods to overcome these barriers. | 3 sports in practical tailored to students capabilities [continued from term 1]
TOPIC 1: Socio-cultural influences on participation completed.
TOPIC 1: Commercialisation in sport. Students to understand the impact of media, sponsorship and technology on performers, officials, spectators and sport. | 3 sports in practical tailored to students capabilities [term 3 and 4]
Commercialisation in sport completed.
TOPIC 1 test on factors affecting participation and commercialisation. | 3 sports in practical tailored to students capabilities [continued from term 3]
TOPIC 2: Health and well-being. Students to understand the positive impact of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle on well-being. Students to understand the impact of diet and somatotype on performance. | 3 sports in practical tailored to students capabilities [term 5 and 6]
TOPIC 2: Health and well-being. Students to understand the positive impact of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle on well-being. Students to understand the impact of diet and somatotype on performance. | 3 sports in practical tailored to students capabilities [continued from term 6]
TOPIC 2: Health and well-being completed.
TOPIC 2 test on health and well-being |
| Physical Education (non exam) | Health and Fitness. Perform a variety of fitness tasks and develop individual training programmes, apply the use of heart rates to monitor progress, and demonstrate the essential elements of attack and defence. | Team Games. In all events, it is the aim to achieve personal bests. Pupil should be able to accurately time/measure and officiate competitions. The aim is to retain possession and create scoring opportunities. Pupil should be able to officiate accurately. | Football and Badminton. Pupils will build resilience and self-esteem through individual programmes, be able to evaluate and comment on what constitutes healthy lifestyle. Pupil should be able to accurately score and officiate badminton games. | Health and Fitness, Dance & Team Games. Perform a variety of fitness tasks and develop individual training programmes, replicating and developing movement incorporating themes, demonstrate the essential elements of attack and defence. | Athletics. Refine strategies to build resilience and achieve personal best performance. Pupils will be able to demonstrate the essential elements of running, throwing and jumping in both competition and conditioned practice. | Team Building. Pupils will focus on developing and refining strategies to build resilience and empathy. To work successfully within groups and to understand the needs of individuals to overcome problems.
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| Physics | Energy stores and systems, changes in energy, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, energy changes in systems, specific heat capacity, required practical 1 | Power, work done, conservation and dissipation of energy, energy transfers in a system, required practical 2 (physics only), efficiency, national and global energy resources | Current, potential difference and resistance, standard circuit diagram symbols, electrical charge and current, required practical 3, series and parallel circuits
| Resistors, filament lamps, diodes, current-voltage characteristic graphs, ohmic and non-ohmic conductors, thermistors, light dependent resistors, required practical 4 | Domestic uses and safety, direct and alternating potential difference, mains electricity, energy transfers in everyday appliances, the national grid, static electricity (physics only) | Review of Energy and Electricity |
| Religious Studies | Christianity: Nature of God, Biblical accounts of Creation, The problem of evil and suffering, Jesus Christ, Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension, | The concept of salvation, Eschatological beliefs and teachings, Worship, Sacraments, Prayer, The role and importance of pilgrimage and celebrations to Christians. | The role of the church in the local community and living practices, Mission, The role of the church in
the wider world. Islam: Core beliefs | Nature of Allah, Prophethood (Risalah), Books (Kutub), Angels (Malaikah), Eschatological beliefs and
teachings, Life after death (Akhirah),
| The importance of practices, Public acts of worship, Private acts of worship, Hajj, Zakat/Zakah, Sawm, Festivals/special days, Jihad. | Christianity and Islam Revision
Mock Exam
Ethics
Why RS matters - links to careers. |
| Spanish | Me, my family and my friends: My family and I, my friends and I, relationships with my friends and family and marriage and partnerships
Grammar: TENER and SER, adjectives, reflexive verbs, possessive adjectives, subject pronouns, immediate future tense, direct and indirect object pronouns | Technology: Communicating online, the uses of social media, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology
Grammar: comparatives, question words, perfect tense, HABIA / ERA, POR / PAR, present continuous tense | Free-time activities: TV, cinema, music, reading and sports
Grammar: GUSTAR/ENCANTAR, common irregular verbs, pronouns after con, adverbs, JUGAR / HACER, future tense | Customs and celebrations: food and eating out, different cuisines, festivals, how people celebrate differently, describing international festivals
Grammar: preterite tense including reflexives, imperfect HAY / HABIA, revise numbers | Home and local area: describing furniture, our home, household chores, talking about our surroundings and different types of accommodation and describing your town and what there is to do.
Grammar: HAY, SER, ESTAR, quantity, prepositions, SE PUEDE + impersonal, demonstrative adjectives | Celebrity Culture
Recap of all grammar this year |