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The Portrait (Self Identity): A range of tasks looking at the self as inspiration and how others have viewed themselves. A Particular focus on the portrait.

Graded: Emerging/Developing/Mastering/

Excelling.

Continual assessment.

Specific dated assessment.

Curriculum Information Term 4

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The Portrait (Self Identity) continued.

Continual assessment.

Curriculum Information Term 3

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 Message of Jesus:

• How did religions start
• Who was Jesus
• Miracles
• Forgiveness

 From end of Term 2 – Aliens

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Message of Jesus:

• Equality
• Resurrection
• Messiah & bible evidence

Why do Christians believe Jesus was the son of God?

Curriculum Information Term 3

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Logo  

Logo is a basic programming language that has allowed many people to get access and learn programming. It's drawing capabilities are really good for producing precise designs. Games can also be developed using Logo. It is a great starting point for programmers. 

You will be learning how to understand the potential of logo programming with sub programs / routines, understand the use of directional instructions, understand the difference between running a program and calling a program and understand how to create code that can work together to produce an end product. 

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com. 

Complete the house project. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Control Systems  

In this unit we will be looking at how design systems with flowcharts. 

flowchart is a graphical way of depicting the outcomes of a program. For example, if I do this, what will happen. It is a way of showing the rules, if you do this, this happens, if you do this, this happens. Our lives are governed by rules. Even though some people say they don’t like rules and don’t follow them, that is wrong, they do. As humans we always follow rules. Rules control our lives. For example, you unlock the door before you push it open, why? Because if you did not do that, the door would not open. 

These basic rules can be applied to almost very situation, after all you can’t write with a pen unless you pick it up first, that’s the rule. 

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com. 

End of unit test. 

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In DT students will rotate around 4 subject areas and IT during the year. Students spend approximately 7 weeks in each subject area and then move on. Whilst in each of the areas students will learn what a Design brief is and how it applies in different material areas, what user needs are and how to meet them with the design of their product.

Electronics:
Students will make a steady hand tester. This project introduces them to soldering, different types of components and circuit layout. Students customise a vacuum formed casing shape and use pliers to cut and shape copper wire.

Food & Nutrition:
We will be developing their basic cooking skills along with their awareness of Food Hygiene and Safety. We look at eating a healthy balanced diet and ways of incorporating more vegetables into our diet.
Students will complete a piece of research homework on The ‘5 a day’ campaign’ and during their practical lessons they will make a Pasta Salad, Quesadilla, Carrot cakes and a Healthier Pizza.
Please note that all recipes and cooking dates will be on Edulink, we have also introduced a recipe book which they will be given at the start of their rotation. Students need to bring a container with a locking lid to take their food home in.

Product Design:
Students will learn about materials and their properties through a combination of theoretical learning and practical testing. They will develop their designing skills including practising drawing techniques, as well as designing a keyring made of acrylic for a client which they will go on to make using a variety of shaping and finishing techniques

Textiles:
Students will be making a patchwork cushion using recycled fabric with a Pop Art panel. They will be introduced to key Artists in the Pop Art movement using them as inspiration to design their own unique panel using fabric crayon.

In each DT area students will be assessed on and receive a grade for their Design work – during the rotation and at the end as well as their Finished Practical outcome.

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

In DT students will rotate around 4 subject areas and IT during the year. Students spend approximately 7 weeks in each subject area and then move on. Whilst in each of the areas students will learn what a Design brief is and how it applies in different material areas, what user needs are and how to meet them with the design of their product.

Electronics:
Students will make a steady hand tester. This project introduces them to soldering, different types of components and circuit layout. Students customise a vacuum formed casing shape and use pliers to cut and shape copper wire.

Food & Nutrition:
We will be developing their basic cooking skills along with their awareness of Food Hygiene and Safety. We look at eating a healthy balanced diet and ways of incorporating more vegetables into our diet.
Students will complete a piece of research homework on The ‘5 a day’ campaign’ and during their practical lessons they will make a Pasta Salad, Quesadilla, Carrot cakes and a Healthier Pizza.
Please note that all recipes and cooking dates will be on Edulink, we have also introduced a recipe book which they will be given at the start of their rotation. Students need to bring a container with a locking lid to take their food home in.

Product Design:
Students will learn about materials and their properties through a combination of theoretical learning and practical testing. They will develop their designing skills including practising drawing techniques, as well as designing a keyring made of acrylic for a client which they will go on to make using a variety of shaping and finishing techniques

Textiles:
Students will be making a patchwork cushion using recycled fabric with a Pop Art panel. They will be introduced to key Artists in the Pop Art movement using them as inspiration to design their own unique panel using fabric crayon.

In each DT area students will be assessed on and receive a grade for their Design work – during the rotation and at the end as well as their Finished Practical outcome.

Curriculum Information Term 3

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 Slapstick Comedy

• Develop skills on mime
• Focusing on the use of physicality to communicate character
• Explore a range of melodramatic acting styles

Students will be assessed in the following ways: 

• Mid unit assessment, focusing on a range of acting skills and techniques.
• End of Unit assessment – focusing on a range of skills and developing target areas from previous assessment
• Verbal teacher feedback will be provided each lesson to support and guide pupils with practical work.
• Each lesson will consist of a range of opportunities for self and peer assessment to track progress across a variety of skills

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Stanislavski

• Introduction to the concept or naturalistic acting
• Developing effective characterisation through vocality and physicality
• Understanding how to create different moods and atmospheres

Students will be assessed in the following ways: 

• Mid unit assessment, focusing on a range of acting skills and techniques.
• End of Unit assessment – focusing on a range of skills and developing target areas from previous assessment
• Verbal teacher feedback will be provided each lesson to support and guide pupils with practical work.
• Each lesson will consist of a range of opportunities for self and peer assessment to track progress across a variety of skills

Curriculum Information Term 3

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Sherlock Holmes: analysis of how Conan Doyle creates characters, setting and mood in his famous detective stories

Analytical paragraphs discussing the creation of character and won writer’s methods building tension.

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Sherlock Holmes: analysis of how Conan Doyle creates characters, setting and mood in his famous detective stories

Analytical paragraphs discussing the creation of character and won writer’s methods building tension.

Curriculum Information Term 3

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: study of Shakespeare’s play and the craft of creative writing. 

Creative writing inspired by Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Analysis of character and the creation of tension

Curriculum Information Term 4

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: study of Shakespeare’s play and the craft of creative writing. 

Creative writing inspired by Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Analysis of character and the creation of tension

Curriculum Information Term 3

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Library lessons: 

Take place once per fortnight and are lessons with a reading-focus to improve students’ literacy. 

Students follow the Accelerate Reader course, from which they select from a range of texts appropriate to their reading age, and their progress is tracked. 

Students are expected to always have an appropriate reading book in their bags as part of their school equipment. 

Key skills: reading comprehension; vocabulary range.

Library lessons:

Accelerated Reader online quizzes – every half term a sat during library lessons.

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Library lessons: 

Please see above.

Library lessons:

Accelerated Reader online quizzes – every half term a sat during library lessons.

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 Freetime

Writing assessment

Listening assessment Freetime

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School

Reading PA

TA speaking ( 5 questions)

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 Resources

• Spheres of the earth
• Fossil fuels
• Energy use
• How we use natural resources.

Weathering assessment

End of unit resources assessment

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Africa

• Location
• Physical characteristics
• Human characteristics

Mid-unit assessment-

People and environment knowledge-based assessment

Curriculum Information Term 3

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 Henry II and Thomas Beckett

King John & Magna Carta

Black Death- causes and consequences

Islamic World inventions in the Medieval Period

 Was King John a Cruel King?

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Peasants Revolt + Death at Smithfield

Robin hood- Fact or Fiction

Law & Order in medieval times

Life in a Medieval town

Robin Hood- was he real source analysis?

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Financial Literacy and Money – Banks, Savings, Debt and Budgeting,

Aspiration and self-esteem.

Personal Identity, Gender and Sexuality.

There is no formal Assessment in Life Skills.

Work in Life Skills Booklets is monitored and checked for progress.

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Healthy Lifestyles – Nutrition and Exercise, Healthy Living.

Anger Management, Balance.

Positive Relationships.

Radicalisation and Extremism.

There is no formal Assessment in Life Skills.

Work in Life Skills Booklets is monitored and checked for progress.

Curriculum Information Term 3

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  Addition and subtraction – understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction; column method for addition and subtraction; solving problems involving addition and subtraction; adding and subtracting in standard form

Multiplication and division – understanding the relationship between multiplication and division; multiplying with powers of 10; short and long multiplication and division; calculating the mean; order of operations

Fractions and percentages of amounts – working with fractions and percentages of amounts; percentages over 100%

One hour assessment covering all topics covered during terms 1 and 2

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Directed number – four operations with negative numbers; substitution with directed numbers; solving two-step equations; order of operations; powers and roots

Fractional thinking – converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions; adding and subtracting fractions, integers and mixed numbers, starting with the same denominators and moving on to different denominators; work with algebraic fractions

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Instruments of the Orchestra.

Band Skills, Reading Tab, and Basic Rhythm Notation

Listening Test

Fanfare Composition assessment

Ensemble Performance Assessment

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 Band Skills – The Blues. 12 bar blues, basslines, vocal work

 Ensemble Performance Assessment

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Teacher 1  

Electromagnets 1 

• Electric circuits 
• Electrical energy 
• Resistance 
• Series and parallel circuits 
• Static charge 
• Electric fields 

Teacher 2 

Reactions 1 part 1 

• Metals and non-metals 
• Metals and acids 
• Displacement reactions 
• Oxidation reactions 

Teacher 3 

Ecosystems 1 part 1 

• Food webs 
• Toxins in the environment 
• Importance of insects 
• ecology 

Assessment on first 4 topics form terms 1 and 2 

Quick check – end of topic test 

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Teacher 1 

Energy 1  

• fuels and food 
• energy transfers 
• cost of energy 
• using electricity 
• energy stores and transfers 
• Potential, kinetic and elastic energy 

Teacher 2 

Reactions 1 part 2 

• Acids and alkalis 
• Indicators 
• neutralisation 

Teacher 3 

Ecosystems 1 part 2 

• Flowering plants 
• Fertilisation 
• Seed dispersal 
• Fruits 

Quick check – end of topic test 

Quick check – end of topic test 

Quick check – end of topic test 

Curriculum Information Term 3

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Mis pasatiempos – My hobbies

Unit 3 – Students will learn to talk about their hobbies and give opinions on different activities.

Assessment 1 – Speaking test – 4 questions about yourself. This will be prepared in class, homework to learn it.

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Donde vivo yo – This term we will be discussing home and local area. It gives the students a chance to discuss where they live as well as dream up their perfect lottery winning home!

Within this term we look at cities around the hispanic world and compare the way others live. This is a chance to widen understanding of the world.