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Assessment information Term 5

Theme: Confectionery  

Students will look at the work of artists Sarah Graham and Wayne Theibaud.   

Technical focus: They will look at methods of copying images and work in oil pastels; pencil crayon; pencil; watercolour; ink pen.  Students will experiment with different artistic styles, including continuous line drawing; realism; and pop art.   

Completion of other cultures portrait from last term, Wayne Theibaud oil pastel doughnuts, pop art sweets 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

Continuation of term 5 

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An overview of World Religions

N/A

Curriculum Information Term 6

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 An overview of World Religions

World Religions Assessment Test

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

The Computer  

Our computers are very important to us, as they allows us to stay connected with each other. Without them we often feel cut off. If you know how to repair, building or improve your computer through upgrading it can save you a lot of money.  

In this unit you will be learning about the different parts of a computer and see how they work. 

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com. 

End of unit test. 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

The Kiosk

Our world has been transformed by touch screens and interactivity. Kiosk system as all around us, from moving floors in a lift, buying your shopping at self-service checkouts, selecting photos in a photobooth, playing games in an amusement arcade to using a mobile phone or ordering food in fast food restaurant etc. Advertisement like huge electrical banners or promotions on screens in supermarkets are made using this type of technology.

In this unit you will be learning how to make your own Kiosk system.

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com.

End of unit test.

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

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. 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

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. 

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

 Brechtian Theatre  

• Develop understanding of practitioner’s style of theatre  

• Explore a range of Brechtian concepts 

• Creating performances that are influenced by practitioner techniques and methods. 

 Mid unit assessment – assessing key performance skills and techniques.  

End of unit assessment – assessing key performance skills and techniques 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

 Devising Drama  

• To be able to work with a given stimulus linking to key theme or idea  

• Incorporate a range of techniques developed throughout the year such as cross cutting, hot seating, ensemble, thought tracking 

 Mid unit assessment – assessing key performance skills and techniques.  

End of unit assessment – assessing key performance skills and techniques 

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

Mortal Engines 

Students are reading a whole novel in class, exploring the genre of dystopian fiction and fantasy fiction.  

Analytical reading task: students to write an analysis of how a character is presented in the novel. 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

 Mortal Engines (continued) 

Students are reading a whole novel in class, exploring the genre of dystopian fiction and fantasy fiction.  

Analytical reading task: students to write an analysis of how a character is presented in the novel. 

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet 

Students will read extracts from Shakespeare’s play to continue to build their confidence with Shakespearean language – something they started in Year 7 with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Students will focus on debating “big ideas” in Shakespeare’s plays. 

 Speaking and listening task: class debate. 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (continued) 

Students will read extracts from Shakespeare’s play to continue to build their confidence with Shakespearean language – something they started in Year 7 with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Students will focus on debating “big ideas” in Shakespeare’s plays. 

 Speaking and listening task: class debate. 

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 Africa- physical landscape, people, place and economy 

Economy in Nigeria 

 Mid unit Multiple choice assessment 

Quality of life written 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

 Upland areas- The Lake District tourism Case study 

Infiltration investigation 

 Case study question for upland environments 

Infiltration evaluation question.  

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 Talking about what you eat, drink and how healthy you are 

 PA translation into English 

TA paragraph about health 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

 Talking about an event 

 TA grammar test past tense 

 PA speaking about an event 

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 Youth in nazi Germany 

Women in nazi Germany 

Holocaust – steps towards this, persecution, discrimination and the Final Solution 

 Assessment- comparing different social groups living in the Third Reich 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

 Causes of WW2 – long and short term 

Policy of Appeasement 

Local History- life during WW2- Home front 

Suffragettes 

 Assessment- Home Front 

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Assessment information Term 5

Health & Wellbeing 

(Online Safety, Managing Behaviour and Smoking/Vaping) 

  N/A 

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

Racism, Civil Rights and Discrimination 

(The Civil Rights Movement, Racism and Types of discrimination). 

  N/A 

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

Number sense – rounding, estimating, units of area and volume (higher groups only)

Angles in parallel lines and polygons – including geometric proof and constructing bisectors (higher groups only)

Area of trapezia and circles

Curriculum Information Term 6

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Line symmetry and reflection in horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines

The data handling cycle – collecting data, lines and charts, comparing data

Measures of location – using averages, averages from tables (higher groups only)

 One hour assessment covering all content from ‘Fractions and percentages’ (term 4) to ‘Line symmetry and reflection’

Curriculum Information Term 5

Assessment information Term 5

Finish Blues Band Skills unit, playing in an ensemble, blues improvisation, blues scale, blues chord progression, seventh chords, extending vocal, ukulele, guitar and keyboard skills.

Ensemble Performance Assessment - Band Skills. Dance Music Composition Assessment

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Dance Music unit - learning about the features of dance music. Composing rhythmic material on software, composing chord sequences and simple basslines.

Ensemble Performance Assessment - Band Skills. Dance Music Composition Assessment

Curriculum Information Term 5 and 6

Assessment information Term 5 and 6

Cricket 

Rounders 

Athletics  

Tennis 

 *students complete three of these activities depending on their rotation. 

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. 

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Teacher 1

Waves 2

• Pitch and frequency
• Microphones and loudspeakers
• Light wave lengths
• Transverse and longitudinal waves
• Water waves

Teacher 2

Earth 2

• The atmosphere
• Carbon cycle
• Human activity
• Global warming
• Earth’s resources
• Recycling
• Extracting methods

Quick check – end of topic test

Quick check – end of topic test

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

Teacher 1

STEM PROJECT

Nature will change depending on global project

Teacher 2

Genes 2

• Natural selection
• Biodiversity
• Extinction
• Genetic material
• Chromosomes
• Variation
• Genetic crosses

Assessment on first 8 topics  year 8 and any from year 7

Quick check – end of topic test

There will be an assessment at the start of year 9 where the entire content from year 7 and 8 will be assessed.

Curriculum Information Term 5

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TV, film & music: Discussing personal tastes

PA L&R End of unit test unit 3 Aqui mando yo

TA  Translation

Curriculum Information Term 6

Assessment information Term 6

Discussing fashion & transactions when shopping

PA Role play 

TA L+R end of unit test