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Continuation of Portfolio – major coursework assessment based on the theme ‘Twisting and Turning’.

Continual assessment based on exam board assessment objectives.

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Continuation of Portfolio – major coursework assessment based on the theme ‘Twisting and Turning’.

Continual assessment based on exam board assessment objectives.

beliefs and ethics

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Christian Practices

  • Church and Community
  • Mission and Evangelism
  • Church Growth and the Worldwide Church
  • Christian Persecution
  • Church’s Response to World Poverty

Christian Practices

  • Church Growth 12 Mark

Christian Practices End of Topic Test

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Islamic Beliefs

  • Onenss of God
  • Sunni and Shia Islam
  • Nature of God
  • Angels
  • Predistination
  • Life and death
  • Prophethood and Adam
  • Ibrahim
  • Muhammand and Immate
  • Holy books in Islam

Islamic Beliefs End of Topic Test

 

Btec Tech Award Sport

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BUSINESS

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GCSE. Theme 1 : Edexcel Business

Topic 1.3 Making the business effective – students will explore a range of factors that

impact on the success of the business, including location, the marketing mix and the business plan.

  • Business aims and objectives
  • Business revenues, costs and profits
  • Cash and cash-flow
  • Sources of business finance

BTEC: Component 1: Edexcel Exploring Enterprise

Students will be reviewing the exam board set timed piece of coursework that will be internally marked and exam board moderated. It will be worth a third of their overall grade. They will then go on to learn the content for their component 2.

End of unit test. Up to 9 marks questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coursework. Internally assessed, externally moderated.

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GCSE. Theme 1: Edexcel Business 

Topic 1.4 Making the business effective – students will explore a range of factors that

impact on the success of the business, including location, the marketing mix and the business plan.

  • The options for start-up and
  • small businesses
  • Business location
  • The marketing mix
  • Business plans

BTEC: Component 3: Marketing and Finance for Enterprise.

  • Targeting and segmenting the market
  • 4Ps of the marketing mix
  • Factors influencing the choice of marketing methods
  • Trust, reputation and loyalty
  • Financial documents
  • Payment methods
  • Revenue and costs

End of unit test. Up to 9 marks questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of unit test. Up to 9 marks questions.

 

Computer Science

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Programming  

Do you want to get the computer to do exactly what you want? 

Then this unit will be for you. Learn to program in Python to bend that computer to your will!  Or at least understand how to program a computer to solve some problems.

IT Vocational

Database Skills  

Database skills will be worked on this term as well as the following theory topics. 

How data and information is used and transferred  

The security of data  

Homework 

End of Topic Tests 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Database skills practice task 

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Networks connections and protocols  

This unit explores how computers communicate with each other, why they communicate with each other and what standards are used to make sure they understand what is going on. 

IT Vocational

Word Processing Skills  

Word processing skills will be worked on this term as well as the following theory topics. 

The moral, ethical and legal issues associated with ICT 

The cultural, personal and environmental impact of ICT  

Homework 

End of Topic Tests 

 

 

 

 

 

Word processing skills practice task 

Drama

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  Devising Drama

  • Begin creating performance
  • Understanding the three key stages of devising
  • Explore given stimuli
  • Tracking progress with rehearsal records
  • Developing self-evaluation skills in order to develop and refine individual and group skills

 GCSE students will be assessed by:

  • Regular formative assessment focusing on a range of devising skills.
  • Teachers are only permitted to provide general comments during the devising process as this is an official examination which is internally marked and then moderated by AQA.
  • Students will be given many opportunities to self and peer reflect on their performance work in order to develop and refine their work.

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 Noughts and Crosses: Developing Exam Skill (Section B)

  • Question 1: Context and impact on one design element
  • Question 2 – Performance of one line through vocal and physical skills
  • Question 3: Character interaction and use of performance space
  • Question 4: Performance of one character in extract and elsewhere within the play
  • Students will receive regular formative assessment with key successes and targets to focus on in each question of Section B of the exam paper.
  • Students will be given directed improvement reflection time to work on this feedback and build upon these key skills
  • Students will receive an end of unit assessment where they will receive a mark and grade for their exam responses.

DT Electronic Products

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Students will create an attractive and visual display to help advertise a product, film or item of their choice. This project will introduce students to programming and computer control; using software to program a real-life project. The product is customisable and can use a wide range of different types of lights and sounds. Students can use a range of different materials to make the house for the circuitry.

 Students will be assessed on the design ideas for their PCB’s and then at the end of their project on the quality and complexity of their final outcome.

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Students will be design and make a security system to help protect a valuable item or to help keep a room secure. Students will be introduced to a range of different inputs, sensors and switches that could be used to trigger the alarm. Students will also get to design their own casing using wood or plastic to house the alarm. This project also gives students to opportunity to design and make their own custom-made PCB (printed circuit board). This project follows a similar structure to the NEA project.

 Assessment for this project will be in line with GCSE non examined assessment ( coursework). Students will receive feedback at least every 6 lessons. They will see the language and assessment criteria for their GCSE project.

DT FOOD

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Year 10 will be focussing on Protein in term 3, both meat and plant based proteins. Students will learn the food sources of protein, the function of proteins in the body as part of a balanced diet and what happens if we eat an excess or are deficient in them.  We will look at the scientific properties of when cooking. In our practical we move into the high- level skills of filleting fish and portioning chicken. We consider the components of a traditional curry from different areas of Asia and make a curry paste from scratch.

 Two pieces of assessment this term – the first will be marking and feedback on a research project set in week 1 for a hand in week 3.

The second will be an end of Topic test which will include 3-4 mark questions from GCSE papers as well as the multiple choice and single and two mark questions.

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Food Hygiene & Food Safety: In this term we will be looking at Food Spoilage, storing food safely, food poisoning and the use of Micro-organisms in food production.

In our practical lessons our focus will be on bread making and the use of Yeast and other raising agents for bread.

Two pieces of assessment this term – the first will be marking and feedback on a research project set in week 1 for a hand in week 3.

The second will be an end of Topic test which will include 3-4 mark questions from GCSE papers as well as the multiple choice and single and two mark questions

DT Product Design

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Students will learn elements of the core content regarding electrical systems, polymers, CAD/CAM and timbers by making a night light. The written work for this project is very much aimed at introducing the NEA in preparation for term 6.

 At the beginning of the project students are given assessment criteria. Their books will be assessed every six lessons with what went well (www) and even better if (ebi). The practical work will receive ongoing verbal feedback. Students will make decisions to enable them to achieve at least their target grade for the project, using self and peer assessment to ensure the quality of outcome required. Final assessment of the project is led by the teacher.

For the theory element of the course students will sit and end of topic test.

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Students will learn elements of the core content regarding electrical systems, polymers, CAD/CAM and timbers by making a night light. The written work for this project is very much aimed at introducing the NEA in preparation for term 6.

 

 

 At the beginning of the project students are given assessment criteria. Their books will be assessed every six lessons with what went well (www) and even better if (ebi). The practical work will receive ongoing verbal feedback. Students will make decisions to enable them to achieve at least their target grade for the project, using self and peer assessment to ensure the quality of outcome required. Final assessment of the project is led by the teacher.

For the theory element of the course students will sit and end of topic test.

DT Textiles

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 Botanical project:
 Students will continue to build up their drawing techniques and creativity by carrying out observational drawings of plants/flowers, using different media. There will be inspiration from artists to show further ways of using mixed media within studies and samples. Media such as pencil, pen, watercolour, paper / collage will be widely used to show colour, line, form / shape, surface, and texture.
 
Students will continue to explore surface decoration techniques to build up awareness of textile techniques, such as fabric painting, some fabric manipulation, and the use of solvy. They will develop the samples created to show refinement and broaden their creative skillset.
 
By the end of the project students will aim to create a 3-dimensional botanical piece showing their personalised style of working.

 Students will be given success criteria at the start of the project. Throughout they will receive regular WWW and EBI feedback on samples and drawing/rendering techniques.
 Midway through and at the end of the project students will receive detailed feedback against the success criteria so that they have a clear understanding of what their successes and areas for improvement are.

Curriculum Information Term 4

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 Botanical project:
 Students will continue to build up their drawing techniques and creativity by carrying out observational drawings of plants/flowers, using different media. There will be inspiration from artists to show further ways of using mixed media within studies and samples. Media such as pencil, pen, watercolour, paper / collage will be widely used to show colour, line, form / shape, surface, and texture.
 
Students will continue to explore surface decoration techniques to build up awareness of textile techniques, such as fabric painting, some fabric manipulation, and the use of solvy. They will develop the samples created to show refinement and broaden their creative skillset.
 
By the end of the project students will aim to create a 3-dimensional botanical piece showing their personalised style of working.

 Students will be given success criteria at the start of the project. Throughout they will receive regular WWW and EBI feedback on samples and drawing/rendering techniques.
 Midway through and at the end of the project students will receive detailed feedback against the success criteria so that they have a clear understanding of what their successes and areas for improvement are.

 

ENGLISH

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Reading non-fiction: Building skills for Language Paper 2, Section A

 

A Christmas Carol: Students will complete their study of the novella by Charles Dickens

 

Power & Conflict: Revision and completing the anthology

Exam practice from sample Language Paper 2

 

 

Practice exam-style essay

 

Practice comparative exam-style essay

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The Writer’s Craft: Practising Non-fiction Writing (Language Paper 2, Section B)

 

An Inspector Calls: students will be studying this 20th century play by J.B. Priestley

 

2 x Non-fiction writing tasks, e.g. speeches, leaflets, letters, articles

 

Comprehension quizzes.

 

Exam-style essays on extract from the play.

Geography

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 Urban issues and challenges

  • Bristol case study (HIC)

Physical landscapes of the UK

  • Introduction to glaciation
  • Glacial processes
  • Glacial landforms

 

Urban End of unit assessment

 

Glacial processes and landforms exam questions.

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  Physical landscapes of the UK

  • Glacial deposition
  • Glacial case study- Lake District

 

End of unit assessment for Glaciation +recall.

GERMAN

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 Media

 Photo card teacher assessed

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 Where I live

 

Photo card TA

Reading PA

H&S BTEC

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HISTORY

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Introduction to Medicine through time – what is Medicine

Ancient Medicine- role of Greek and Romans

Medieval causes/beliefs/cures to illness

Barber surgeons

Roel of the Medieval Church

Islamic Medicine

Impact of war and technology in the medieval period

Public Health -what was it and issues-including Black Death

 End of Unit test for Conflict unit first week back in January

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Introduction to the Renaissance time period- what was it

Renaissance key individuals and their impact

Surgery and treatment in the time period.

Public Health and Plague 1666

Edward Jenner and Vaccination

 End of Unit test – 4 exam questions on the time period

MATHS

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Higher – Counting, accuracy, powers and surds: rational numbers, reciprocals, terminating and recurring decimals, negative and fractional powers, surds, bounds, choices and outcomes

Sampling and more complex diagrams: sampling, frequency polygons, cumulative frequency, boxplots, histograms

 

Foundation - Representation and interpretation of data: Sampling, pie charts, scatter diagrams, grouped data and averages,

Constructions and loci: triangles, line bisectors, angle bisectors, locus, loci problems

Percentages and proportion: compound interest, repeated percentage change, reverse percentages, direct proportion, inverse proportion

 

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Higher – Quadratic equations: Plotting, solving by factorising, using quadratic formula, completing the square, significant points on a curve, solving simultaneous equations (linear and non-linear), quadratic inequalities

Combined events: Tree diagrams and conditional probability

 

Foundation – Percentages and proportion: compound interest, repeated percentage change, reverse percentages, direct proportion, inverse proportion

Curved shapes and pyramids: area and perimeter of sectors, volume and surface area of pyramids, cones and spheres

Number and sequences: continuing sequences (numbers and patterns), finding the nth term of a linear sequence and using this, Fibonacci numbers, squares, cubes and triangular numbers,

 

music

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Pop Music Composition

AoS4: Fusion Music

Set Work: Africa

Ensemble Performance

Short Pop Music composition 

Listening test based on set work.

Ensemble performance recording and assessment

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AoS1: Form and Structure -melodic construction, periods of musical history, forms

Set Work 2: Badinerie

Solo Performance 2

 End of Unit Assessment

Listening test

Feedback on progress

gcse pE 

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 The cardiovascular system and effects of exercise

Functions

Components and functions

Flow of blood through the heart and double circulatory system

Short and long term effects of exercise

Interleaving test – skeleton, muscles and cardiovascular system.

 

Short answer questions in lesson.

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The Respiratory System and effects of exercise

Function

Identify structure

Passage of air through the respiratory system

Mechanics of breathing

Lung volumes

Short and long term effects of exercise

Interleaving test – skeleton, muscles, cardiovascular system and respiratory system

 

Short answer questions in lesson.

Science (Combined Science)

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BIOLOGY  

B5 continued 

  • Adrenalin and Thyroxine 

B6 Inheritance, Variation and Evolution 

  • Sexual and asexual reproduction 
  • Meiosis 
  • DNA and the genome 
  • Genetics 
  • Inherited disorders and sex determination 
  • Variation 
  • Evolution 

CHEMISTRY 

C1 continued 

  • Amount of substance 
  • Moles 
  • Development and structure of the Periodic Table 
  • Metals and Non-metals 
  • Group 0  
  • Group 1 
  • Group 7 

PHYSICS 

P5 Continued 

  • Work done and energy transferred 
  • Forces and elasticity 
  • Hooke’s Law 
  • Distance and displacement 
  • Speed 

 

 

 

 

 

Extended response questions based on improvements from TERM 2 Assessments 

 

 

 

Extended response questions based on improvements from TERM 2 Assessments 

 

 

 

 

 

Extended response questions based on improvements from TERM 2 Assessments 

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BIOLOGY 

B6 continued 

  • Selective breeding 
  • Genetic engineering 
  • Evidence for evolution 
  • Fossils 
  • Extinction 
  • Resistant bacteria 
  • Classification 
  • Evolutionary keys 

CHEMISTRY 

C2 Bonding, Structure and the properties of matter 

  • Chemical bonds 
  • Ionic bonding 
  • Covalent bonding 
  • Metallic bonding 
  • States of matter and state symbols 
  • Properties of ionic compounds 
  • Properties of small molecules 
  • Polymers 
  • Giant covalent structures 

PHYSICS 

P5 Continued 

  • Velocity 
  • Distance-time relationships 
  • Acceleration 
  • Newton’s first law 
  • Newton’s second law 

 

 

 

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Required practical practice questions 

 

 

 

Required practical practice questions 

 

 

 

 

spanish

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 Mi gente – This term focusses on the relationships between people in modern society, we discuss the use of technology as well as forming friendships.

 

This term we will be building on the KS3 themes of familia and applying language to more real life situations.

  Assessment 1 – Speaking task – GCSE style photo card.

 

 

Assessment 2 – End of unit assessment focussing on listening and reading skills.

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 Intereses e influencias – This module leads us onto discussing interests and hobbies, it is a great opportunity for students to personalise their learning and enjoy talking about themselves!

 

The topic lends itself well to cultural inclusion, we look at customs around the hispanic world and the lives of young people.

  Assessment 1 – GCSE style translation

 

 

Assessment 2 – End of unit assessment focussing on listening and reading skills.