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GCSE coursework: Twisting and Turning (Portfolio Unit 01, worth 60% of total GCSE) 

This coursework is due in at the end of this term. 

Folder review 

Individual page checks 

Curriculum Information Term 2

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GCSE coursework: Twisting and Turning (Portfolio Unit 01, worth 60% of total GCSE) 

Final piece: planning; composition design; media testing; 10hours to complete 

Final mark of Portfolios 

Final piece planning 

Final piece 

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Learning Aim B/C  

• Ability to participate in sport. 

• Understand official roles and responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate ways to improve participants sporting technique. 

Method of assessment 

Practical assessment, leading and improving practical scenarios. 

Scenario practice. 

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Learning Aim B/C  

• Ability to participate in sport. 

• Understand official roles and responsibilities. 

Demonstrate ways to improve participants sporting technique. 

External assessment 4 hours 

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Business GCSE   
 
Unit 2 : Edexcel Business GCSE  
 
Topic 2.1 Growing the business – students are introduced to methods of growth and how and why business aims and objectives change as businesses evolve. The impact of globalisation and the ethical and environmental questions facing businesses are explored.  

• Business growth  

• Changes in business aims and objectives 

• Business and globalisation  

• Ethics, the environment and business  
    

Business BTEC  

• Component 2: Planning and Presenting a Micro-Enterprise Idea  

• Choosing ideas for a micro-enterprise  

• Plan for a micro-enterprise  

End of unit test. 

Coursework internally assessed. Externally moderated  

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Business GCSE   
 
Unit 2 : Edexcel Business GCSE  
 
Topic 2.2 Making marketing decisions – students will explore how each element of the marketing mix is managed and used to inform and make business decisions in a competitive marketplace. 

• Product  

• Price  

• Promotion  

• Place  

• Using the marketing mix to make business decisions  

Business BTEC   

• Component 2: Planning and Presenting a Micro-Enterprise Idea  

• Present a plan for the micro-enterprise idea to meet specific requirements 

• Production of presentation  

• Delivery of presentation  

End of unit test.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Students will be assessed on a recorded presentation. Dragons den style.   

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Impact of digital technology 
How is digital technology used in your everyday life? What impact is it having on you and the planet? 
 
This unit explores these questions. 

Homework 
End of Topic Tests 

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Logic and languages 
This unit explores the use of Boolean operators and looks at different types of languages computers use to program them. 

Homework 
End of Topic Tests 

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Devising Drama

• Students will be developing, refining and performing a devised performance as part of their official GCSE examination.
• This will be marked internally and moderated externally by AQA.
• Students will then finalise a first draft of their ‘Devising Log’ which is the written section of the component. This will be a total of 2,500 words where students reflect on the process and final outcomes of their devised performance

Devised Performance – 20 Marks
Students will each perform their pieces in exam conditions. These will be filmed and marked by the class teacher.


Devising Log – 60 Marks
First draft to be submitted and general comments/ feedback provided. Students will then edit and hand in a final version to be marked and moderated.

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Students will be introduced to the play, focusing on the playwright Berkoff and his style of theatre.

•  Actors will explore key extracts, focusing on characterisation and Berkoff’s influence of Brecht and Artaud within his work.
• Students will then select key extracts to prepare for a mock performance.
• In February – March 2023, the class will be visited by an AQA examiner who will mark students’ performances of key extracts from Metamorphosis.

Practical assessment will take place where students create a perform a mock performance of 1-2 key scenes of the play.

These will be marked by the class teacher and feedback given in preparation for their official practical exam.

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In July students started their Non Examined Assessment project, this will form 50% of their GCSE grade.  
 

In terms 1 & 2 students will be writing their own Specification and Design Brief. They will generate Ideas and develop their initial sketches based on modelling and testing working towards their design solution.  
Students will be using a range of modelling techniques both 3 dimensional physical models and CAD.  

Students will receive feedback www and ebi on each section of work. They will be told the band of the mark scheme that their work currently reflects.  
Students will have access to exemplar materials of different grades in order to see WAGOLL.  
Please note that teachers are prohibited from allocating a grade for coursework to students when the work is in progress and they are not able to give specific tasks to improve work for individual students.  

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Repeated from Term 1

Repeated from Term 1

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In term 1 Students will be completing their Controlled assessment NEA 1.  This is a scientific investigation into the properties of specific ingredients.   

They will select an area of study from examboard briefs. They are expected to  research and form a hypothesis which they then design experiments to test.  

Students are expected to collect results analyse the outcomes and write a conclusion based on the evidence they have collected.  
 

There will be 10 formal hours to complete the work under controlled conditions.  The teacher will publish dates when practical experiments will be carried out, if a student misses these lessons they will need to attend an afterschool session to get the work completed.  
 

One lesson in five,  students will be working on consolidating their theory knowledge in preparation for their Y11 exams.  
A full plan of what will be covered when will be on Go4Schools 

There will be a biweekly homework assignment.  

Students will receive feedback www and ebi on each section of work. They will be told the band of the mark scheme that their work currently reflects.  
Students will have access to exemplar materials of different grades in order to see WAGOLL.  
Please note that teachers are prohibited from allocating a grade for coursework to students when the work is in progress and they are not able to give specific tasks to improve work for individual students.  

 
Students will be set exam questions for homework every two weeks based on the work covered in their theory lesson. This will be assessed by a combination of self, peer and teacher assessment to deepen the students understanding of what is required in different types of exam questions. 

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Students will be introduced to their second piece of Non Examined Assessment – NEA 2 which is a Designing and Making Activity.  

During Term 2 students will select their Brief, conduct Research and start their Technical/Skills Cooks.  

They will continue to work on theory for one lesson out of every five.  

Students will receive feedback www and ebi on each section of work. They will be told the band of the mark scheme that their work currently reflects.  
Students will have access to exemplar materials of different grades in order to see WAGOLL.  
Please note that teachers are prohibited from allocating a grade for coursework to students when the work is in progress and they are not able to give specific tasks to improve work for individual students.  

Students will be set exam questions for homework every two weeks based on the work covered in their theory lesson. This will be assessed by a combination of self, peer and teacher assessment to deepen the students understanding of what is required in different types of exam questions. 

Curriculum Information Term 1

Assessment information Term 1

In July students started their Non Examined Assessment project, this will form 50% of their GCSE grade.  
 

In terms 1 & 2 students will be writing their own Specification and Design Brief. They will generate Ideas and develop their initial sketches based on modelling and testing working towards their design solution.  
Students will be using a range of modelling techniques both 3 dimensional physical models and CAD.  

Students will receive feedback www and ebi on each section of work. They will be told the band of the mark scheme that their work currently reflects.  
Students will have access to exemplar materials of different grades in order to see WAGOLL.  
Please note that teachers are prohibited from allocating a grade for coursework to students when the work is in progress and they are not able to give specific tasks to improve work for individual students.  

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Repeated from term 1

Repeated from term 1

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Students will be working on their Animals & Insects (sustained project contributing 60% of GCSE) (Term 5 & 6 year 10, Term 1 & 2 year 11) 
 
3.7 Textile Design Area of study: Surface Pattern, Stitched and/or embellished textiles.  
Students will produce a textile outcome that shows their practical skills, should include personal style to reflect a meaningful response. 
The intention is that at the end of their sustained project they will create a pair of pyjama bottoms with an artistic aspect; they do not have to be functional pyjamas with influences from the artists explored.  
 
It should portray their best techniques that they have explored so far within the course. 

Students will receive feedback www and ebi on each section of work. They will be told the band of the mark scheme that their work currently reflects.  
Students will have access to exemplar materials of different grades in order to see WAGOLL.  
Please note that teachers are prohibited from allocating a grade for coursework to students when the work is in progress and they are not able to give specific tasks to improve work for individual students.  

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Repeated from term 1

Repeated from term 1

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Hazards

• Tectonic hazards- Comparison case study- Nepal and Chile
• Weather hazards- Case study- Typhoon Haiyan
• Climate change- Extreme weather event. Beast from the East.

Human geography exam paper.

• Fieldwork exam questions (Birmingham and Hunstanton)
• Knowledge based tectonics assessment.

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Natural Hazards

• Climate change- Extreme weather event. Beast from the East.

• Knowledge based short answer exam questions on earth movements and plates.
• 9 mark case study question.

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Giving opinions about school 

Describing your school 

Speaking roleplay PA 

writing exam ( PPE) and detailed feedback  

Past tense grammar test ( 20 marks) 

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Talking about traditions in German-speaking countries 

Talking about festivals in German-speaking countries 

Revising the verb as second idea in the sentence. 

Revising the perfect tense 

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Elizabethan England 

• Elizabeth I – background 

• How did Elizabeth I control England? (Government, Privy Council, Parliament and Key Ministers) 

• The succession crisis 

• Life in Elizabethan England  

• Elizabethan Theatre and Playwrights 

• Opposition to Elizabeth I 

Open book assessment – GCSE paper 

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Elizabethan England 
• Life in Elizabethan England  
• Elizabethan Theatre and Playwrights  
• Opposition to Elizabeth I 

PPE Assessments 

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Foundation  

• Geometry – Trigonometry review 

• Geometry – identifying congruent triangles, scale factor of similar shapes, finding missing lengths of similar shapes  

• Probability – sample spaces, two-way tables, Venn diagrams, tree diagrams 

Higher  

• Geometry – Non-right angled triangles – sine rule, cosine rule and area of a triangle. 

• Algebra – distance-time graphs, velocity-time graphs, acceleration using velocity-time graphs, estimating area under a curve, rates of change, equation of a circle, exponential graphs, cubic graphs, reciprocal graphs, transformations of graphs, completing the square  

Foundation – Geometry review 

Higher – Non-right angled triangles review 

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Foundation   

• Number – indices, multiplication and division rules for powers, standard form, calculations with standard form 

• Simultaneous equations and inequalities – solving linear simultaneous equations, representing inequalities on a number line, solving linear inequalities  

Higher  

• Algebra – algebraic fractions, more complex changing the subject, functions, composite functions, inverse functions, iterations,  

• Geometry – properties of vectors, addition and subtraction of vectors, vectors in geometric problems  

Year 11 PPEs  
 
Foundation and Higher  
 
1 non-calculator paper and 2 calculator papers.   
 
Each will be 1 hour and 30 minutes and cover the course content.   
 

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Component 1: Exploring Media Texts 

PSA 

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Component 2: Developing  

Digital Media Production Skills 

PSA 

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Performance Coursework Preparation 

AOS1: Forms and Devices revision. Variation Form, Rondo Form, extended vocabulary 

Revision of set work Badinerie. 

AoS2: Chamber Music 

First draft of free composition to be completed by end of term 1.  

Coursework monitoring for recording in November. 

Formative feedback on free composition. 

Listening tests 

AoS1 assessment test 

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Performance Coursework – final preparations for Performance Recording Day 1. 

Exam Brief compositions – researching the brief, initial ideas, developing initial ideas. 

AoS2: Blues and Jazz, Musical Theatre 

Recording of Performance Coursework Part 1. 

Formative feedback on exam brief compositions. 

Listening tests: AoS3 assessment test 

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• Continue NEA completion. 

• Recap training methods, principles, fitness components and testing. 

• Injury prevention  

Set examination assessment criteria for NEA. 

Long and short exam questions. 

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Sports psychology (Recap) 

• Feedback and Guidance – types, function and application to sport. 

• Skill – characteristics, classification continuums, and application to sport. 

• Goal setting and mental preparations – definitions, types, and application to sport. 

Method of assessment 

Exam questions – short and long answer 

PPE – Paper 1. 

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BIOLOGY

B7 Ecology

• Communities
• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors
• Adaptation
• Sampling techniques

• Organisation
• Recycling materials
• Biodiversity
• Waste management
• Land Use

CHEMISTRY

C4 Chemical Change

• Limiting reagents
• Concentration of solutions
• Metal oxides
• The reactivity series
• Extraction of metals and reduction
• Oxidation and reduction
• Reaction of acids with metals
• Reactions of acids to form salts
• Making salts
• pH scale and neutralisation

PHYSICS

P6 Waves

• Transverse and longitudinal waves
• Properties of waves
• Investigating waves
• Electromagnetic waves
• Infrared absorption/radiation
• Uses of electromagnetic waves

All students will be set TWO Educake homeworks per fortnight.  One for Biology and one for the Chemistry/Physics lessons (code SC on timetable).

These are always set on a Monday of week one and will be due in on the Sunday of week 2.

Required practical practice

Required practical practice

Required practical practice

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BIOLOGY

B7 Ecology continued

• Deforestation
• Global Warming
• Maintaining Biodiversity

CHEMISTRY

C4 continued

• Electrolysis of molten compounds
• Electrolysis to extract metals
• Electrolysis of aqueous solutions

PHYSICS

P7 Electromagnetism

• Permanent magnets
• Magnetic fields
• Electromagnetism
• Fleming’s left hand rule
• Electric motors

PPE On Unseen Papers

Biology paper 1

Chemistry Paper 2

Physics Paper 1

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Recap of phonics.

Discussing home, local area and giving opinions on global/social issues (AQA Theme 2 Units 5, 6 & 7).

Skills focus: Vocabulary & translation.

Cumulative scores from 3 vocabulary quizzes

Key verbs test

End of unit 5 mixed skill assessment

Paper 4 writing

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Recap of phonics.

Discussing home, local area and giving opinions on global/social issues (AQA Theme 2 Units 5, 6 & 7).

Skills focus: Vocabulary & translation.

Cumulative scores from 3 vocabulary quizzes

PPE paper 1 Listening, paper 3 Reading & paper 4 writing