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Other Cultures: A range of tasks looking at how other cultures have visually recorded and have inspired art. 

Graded: Emerging/Developing/Mastering/ 

Excelling. 

Continual assessment. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

Other Cultures (continued) 

Continual assessment.  

Specific dated assessment. 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

War, Peace and Justice

• What are the causes of war today?
• What are the consequences of war today?

 No formal assessment this term

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

 War, Peace and Justice

• Should we use weapons of mass destruction?
• Can terrorism ever be justified?

Should we use weapons of mass destruction?

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

 Kiosk

Pupils will use presentation software to create an interactive kiosk. This will follow the deliver computing 360 module.

They will also learn how to research effectively to get content for their kiosks.

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com.  

Complete the kiosk project.  

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

 Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are some of the most powerful computing tools that exist. The world runs on data, a spreadsheet can help you to understand that data. 

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com.  

Curriculum Information Term 3

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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. They will be building on foundation skills learnt in Year 7.

Electronics: Students will make a portable battery powered fan. The project reinforces soldering technique and introduces students to a wider range of components including motors. Students accurately measure, customise and cut a line bent HIPs casing for their product. Students also explore advanced drawing techniques such as orthographic projection.

Food & Nutrition:
In Year 8 students will be looking at eating a healthy balanced diet and food from a range of different cultures. Students will gain the confidence to cook a main meal and it is our hope that students will be able to repeat the meals we make in school for dinner at home.
Theory: Students look at Food Provenance – where our food comes from, what the function of ingredients are in a recipe and what Fusion food is. They are taught to create their own fusion dishes considering the choice of the ingredients based on maximising nutrition, taste and visual appeal.
The dishes made in Year 8 are Savoury Rice, Fajitas, Spicy Sausage casserole and Lemon Drizzle cake.
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 food rotation. Students need to bring a container with a locking lid to take their food home in.

Product Design:
Students in year 8 will produce a phone stand from plywood, developing the skills they would need should they choose to take product design at GCSE. They will learn to mark out accurately, saw using different saws, chisel and finish their phone stands to a high quality outcome. They will also gain an understanding of what a product analysis is and why they are useful to designers, as well as learning about different timber materials including their properties and uses.
Textiles:
Students will be celebrating Food as Art, creating a textile case including a motif of their favourite food, using recycled fabric. They will be challenged to “draw with scissors” and layer fabrics to create an illustrative textile outcome.

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. 

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Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

  Verbatim Theatre

• Explore a range of real-life experiences from a range of time periods and cultures
• Develop ability to use other people’s words as script work in order to create engaging and meaningful performance

  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

Assessment information Term 4

  Theatre in Education – Chicken

• Develop use of text in performance
• Explore series of real-life events through medium of theatre
• Rehearsing and creating devised performances
• Exploring the idea of empathy with characters

 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

Assessment information Term 3

 8.3 War Writing 

Students will read the play Journey’s End set during WW1 and use this context to inspire a range of transactional (non-fiction) writing tasks. 

Formative: written questions on subject knowledge and a transactional writing task. 

Summative: written questions on subject knowledge and a transactional writing task. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

 8.3 War Writing 

Students will read the play Journey’s End set during WW1 and use this context to inspire a range of transactional (non-fiction) writing tasks. 

Formative: written questions on subject knowledge and a transactional writing task. 

Summative: written questions on subject knowledge and a transactional writing task. 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

 8.4 Poetry Structures 

Students will read a range of poems using different structures (e.g. patterns and layout on the page). They will focus particularly on the history of the sonnet as a poetic structure over time. 

They will also do some creative writing of their own poems. 

 Formative: written questions on comprehension, vocabulary and personal viewpoints. 

Summative: written questions on comprehension, vocabulary and personal viewpoints. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

 8.4 Poetry Structures 

Students will read a range of poems using different structures (e.g. patterns and layout on the page). They will focus particularly on the history of the sonnet as a poetic structure over time. 

They will also do some creative writing of their own poems. 

 Formative: written questions on comprehension, vocabulary and personal viewpoints. 

Summative: written questions on comprehension, vocabulary and personal viewpoints. 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

Population  

• Where do people live and why? 

• Census 

• Migration 

• Migration place study 

 How is population spread across the world 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

 Migration 

• Push and Pull factors 

• Causes of migration 

• Examples of European migration 

• Poland to UK 

 Benefits and challenges of migration to host and source countries 

Curriculum Information Term 3

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Discussing foods, including traditional German foods and using recopies. 

Describing healthy lifestyles, daily routine and talking about festivals. 

Developing note taking skills and using language creatively. 

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes  

Writing: 4 bullet point question (FQ4/HQ1) 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

Discussing foods, including traditional German foods and using recopies. 

Describing healthy lifestyles, daily routine and talking about festivals. 

Developing note taking skills and using language creatively. 

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes  

Translation: English to Spanish 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

 Causes of WW1 

Events of WW1 and tactics 

Life in the trenches 

Propaganda and recruitment 

 Causes of WW1 

Curriculum Information Term 4

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 Democracy & Dictatorship 

Rise of the Nazis 
Life in nazi Germany 

Terror and propaganda 

Youth in nazi Germany 

 Hitler coming to power 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

Healthy Relationships & Sex Education 

Consent 

Sexting and Sharing Images 

The Dangers of Pornography 

The Manosphere and Misogyny 

Gender Stereotypes 

Domestic Conflict 

Tolerance and Respect 

Online Challenges 

Life Skills is not subject to assessment. 

However, informal assessment takes place to guarantee progress towards the Learning Objectives. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

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Careers - Doers 

Careers - Investigative 

Careers - Creative 

Careers – Helper 

Careers – Persuader 

Careers - Organiser 

Life Skills is not subject to assessment. 

However, informal assessment takes place to guarantee progress towards the Learning Objectives. 

Curriculum Information Term 3

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Brackets, equations and inequalities – forming expressions, expanding brackets and factorising, solving equations with brackets, solving simple linear inequalities; solving equations and inequalities with unknowns on both sides; identify and use formulae, expressions, identities and equations 

Sequences – generate sequences from a rule in words and algebraically; find the nth term of a linear sequence 

Indices – collecting like terms involving indices; simplifying expressions with indices by multiplying and dividing; powers of powers 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

  Fractions and percentages – convert between fractions, decimals and percentages; find fractions, decimals and percentages of an amount; percentage increase and decrease using multipliers; expressing one amount as a percentage of another; calculating percentage change; reverse percentages 

Standard index form – working with numbers above 1 and between 0 and 1 in standard form; add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers in standard form; negative and fractional powers 

One hour assessment covering data, probability, equations and inequalities, sequences, indices 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

Instruments of the Orchestra 

Learning about the families of the orchestra and how to identify different instrument sonorities. Basics of Cubase. Composing fanfares using Cubase to record and refine composition work. 

Reading rhythm notation. Reinforcing treble clef notation reading. 

 Listening test at the end of the unit. 

Mini listening assessments in lessons. 

Fanfare composition assessment. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

 Band Skills -  

Extending guitar skills from Year 7 – greater range of chords. Developing strumming technique. 

History of the Blues. 12 bar blues chord progression. Walking Bass. Improvisation in the Blues scale. 

Carousel of instrumental skills assessment  

Ensemble Performance assessment. 

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

*Interhouse 

*HRE 

Football 

GYM 

OAA 

Hockey 

* all students within the year group will participate within this activity.

Verbal formative assessment of skills and knowledge and understanding in conditioned and competitive conditions. 

Completion of core task at beginning and end of block of work. 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

*Interhouse 

*HRE 

Football 

GYM 

OAA 

Hockey 

Verbal formative assessment of skills and knowledge and understanding in conditioned and competitive conditions. 

Completion of core task at beginning and end of block of work. 

Curriculum Information Term 3 

Assessment information Term 3

 Some classes may have more than 2 teachers – where this is the case the second teacher will teach half the first topic in term 3 and the other half in term 4.  The second topic will be taught by teacher 3, the first half in term 3 and the second part in term 4.  The same topics will be completed at the same time in term 4 independent of whether a class has 2 or 3 teachers. 

Teacher 1  

Electromagnets 2  

• Forces and Fields  

• Magnets  

• Electromagnets  

• Uses of electromagnets  

• Investigation  

Teacher 2  

Ecosystems 2  

• Aerobic respiration  

• Sport  

• Anaerobic respiration  

• Fermentation  

• Photosynthesis  

• Leaves  

• Transpiration  

• Healthy growth  

• Investigation  

Quick checks – mid and end of topic tests where appropriate for every topic during the terms  

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

Teacher 1  

Reactions 2  

• Exothermic reactions  

• Endothermic reactions  

• Catalysts  

• Combustion  

• Fuels  

• Thermal decomposition  

• Conservation of mass  

Teacher 2  

Energy 2  

• Doing work  

• Thermal energy  

• Heating  

• Conduction, convection and radiation  

• Conduction and insulation  

Quick checks – mid and end of topic tests where appropriate for every topic during the terms  

Assessment on first year 8 topics and those in year 7 before the data point in March  

Curriculum Information Term 3

Assessment information Term 3

Comparing towns and homes in the UK and Spain. 

Describing home & local area in the present and the past. 

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes  

Writing: 4 bullet point question (FQ4/HQ1) 

Curriculum Information Term 4

Assessment information Term 4

Comparing towns and homes in the UK and Spain. 

Describing home & local area in the present and the past. 

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes  

Translation: English to Spanish