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Baseline assessment 

Topic: Gemstones 

We will look at a range of Art skills including: Pencil tone; pencil crayon skills; biro skills 

Baseline assessment 

Colour pencil onto black paper design 

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Topic: Gemstones 

We will look at a range of Art skills including: paint brush control; paint mixing; pen and water; pencil skills; pencil crayon skills 

Watercolour/acrylic crystal 

Agate mixed media 

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Databases  
Databases are used by everyone and have transformed our lives. Technically, the Internet is a massive database which can be used to look things up.  
 
Example uses of databases are:-  
 
- Schools use databases for registers.  
 
- Police use databases to store criminal data.  
 
- Websites use databases to store account details.  
 
You will be learning how to create and use a database to solve problems. ,  

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com.  
 
End of unit test. 

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Binary 
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don’t. 
 
By the end of this unit, you hopefully will understand this Joke 😊 

Continuous assessment of progress using delivercomputing360.com. 
 
End of unit test. 

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Theatre Around the World
 

• Develop knowledge and understand of various styles of theatre and how this connects with (and impacts) different cultures
• Students will explore: French mime, Chinese, Ancient Greek Theatre and many more.
• Continue to build on a variety of vocal and physical skills in order to create multi-dimensional characters within different theatrical styles

Mid Unit Assessment:

A short performance focused on one style of theatre.


End of Unit Assessment:

A longer performance, focusing on a blend of different performance styles.

Each assessment will focus on a specific range of vocal skills, physical skills and performance techniques.

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Theatre Around the World

• Develop knowledge and understand of various styles of theatre and how this connects with (and impacts) different cultures
• Students will explore: French mime, Chinese, Ancient Greek Theatre and many more.
• Continue to build on a variety of vocal and physical skills in order to create multi-dimensional characters within different theatrical styles

Mid Unit Assessment:

A short performance focused on one style of theatre.


End of Unit Assessment:

A longer performance, focusing on a blend of different performance styles.

Each assessment will focus on a specific range of vocal skills, physical skills and performance techniques.

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In Year 9 students will follow the same carousel experience as Years 7 and 8. They will spend approximately 7 weeks in each of the Design Technology material areas, building on the skills learnt before.  

 
Electronics:  

Students will make a speaker that can connect to a range of different items and amplify sound. Students use advanced soldering techniques to populate PCBs (printed circuit boards). Students make a laser cut box to house the speaker circuit and customise the casing using CAD. 
 
Food & Nutrition:  
In Year 9 students will learn about the value of Food choice and how different types of food affect our energy levels. We revisit the Eatwell Guide and students are introduced to the 8 Tips for Healthy Eating. They will consider the factors that affect the number of calories we need and which types of foods are more energy dense. They will be looking at whole foods verses processed foods and considering the affects they have on our body in the long term. We look at the nutrients that different coloured fruit and vegetables give to us and how we can get the balance right in the Food choices that we make.  
In the practical Year 9 will be making Stuffed Bread Whirls, Mini Quiche’s, Swiss Roll and a modified Mac ‘n’Cheese.  

 
Please note that all recipes and cooking dates will be on Go4Schools. We have also introduced a recipe book that 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 mechanisms in year 9, learning about linkages, cranks and sliders and cam systems, understanding what they do, how they work and what they are used for. This knowledge is then built on as they design and make a mechanical toy using a cam and follower system. Students will design a themed toy and select the most appropriate cam to provide the movement. This knowledge is aimed at addressing areas of the GCSE specification in preparation for if students opt to take a design and technology subject in year 10. 
 
Textiles:  
Students will be making a small drawstring bag including the theme of Day of the Dead features. They will look at key symbols, motifs and patterns found within this festival, using them as inspiration to design their own decorative skull. They will incorporate screen printing, stitched fabrics and drawing with the sewing machine to show their creative artwork on the bag. 

  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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Repeated in Term 2

Repeated in Term 2

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English unit: 21st Century novel (Part 1)  
 
During this unit students read sections from a modern novel: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. They will consider key themes such as: civil rights; identity; and growing up. 
 
Students explore how social and historical context can influence writers when producing texts, and readers when receiving them.  
 
Key skills: using references from a text to support your ideas; embedding quotations; explore patterns and themes across texts; make inferences about texts; explore the writer’s purpose and its effect on the reader; explore the context in which a text is written and received.  

English unit: The Hate U Give   
 
Formative assessment: reading  
 
Weekly homework on vocabulary and reading comprehension 

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English unit: 21st century novel (Part 2)  
 
Students complete the novel: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.  
 
Students explore how social and historical context can influence writers when producing texts, and readers when receiving them.  
 
Key skills: using references from a text to support your ideas; embedding quotations; explore patterns and themes across texts; make inferences about texts; explore the writer’s purpose and its effect on the reader; explore the context in which a text is written and received.  

English unit: The Hate U Give Part 2  
 
Summative assessment: reading   
 
Weekly homework on vocabulary and reading comprehension. 

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Media unit: The British Press (Part 1) Students explore broadsheet and tabloid media reporting and learn how to become critical readers.  

Key skills: persuasive writing techniques; structuring non-fiction writing; understand purpose and audience; secure control of word choice; secure control of punctuation.  

Media unit: The British Press  

Formative assessment: non-fiction writing 

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Media unit: The British Press (Part 2) Students explore broadsheet and tabloid media reporting and learn how to become critical readers.  

Key skills: persuasive writing techniques; structuring non-fiction writing; understand purpose and audience; secure control of word choice; secure control of punctuation.  

Media unit: The British Press  

Summative assessment: non-fiction writing 

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Contemporary geography issues

• Wild fires
• Global fashion
• Migration- Mexico to USA

• Assessment to reflect students ability to assess and evaluate current global issue- Extended writing at the end of each issue investigation.

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Tourism Decision making exercise

• Tourism lifecycle- Benidorm
• Impact of tourism in Bali
• Sustainable tourism
• Eco tourism

• Sustainable/eco-tourism Question
• GCSE exam style decision making exercise

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 Family and Friends 

• Describing family & pets 

• Using haben & sein in the present tense 

• Using ein & kein in the accusative case 

• Using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense 

• Reflexive verbs 

• Separable verbs 

 40 words writing 

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Relationships and Marriage 

• Discussing relationships and marriage 

• Using adjectives to describe people and things 

• Comparative forms of adjectives 

• Using the future tense 

• Using wollen to say what you want to do 

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  Turning points of WW2 
• Retrieval – causes of WW2 
• The battle of Dunkirk 
• Pearl Harbour  
• D-Day 

  Write an account of the consequences of Pearl Harbour 

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  The Cold War 
• Causes of the Cold War (ideologies)  
• Berlin Airlift  
• Cuban Revolution 
• The Vietnam War (causes, events and resolution)   

  Explain the significance of tactics used during the Vietnam War 

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 Straight Line Graphs – plotting graphs, using a table of values, gradients and intercepts, using and writing y=mx+c, real-life graphs, inverse proportion and perpendicular lines 

Forming and solving equations – review 1 and 2 step equations and inequalities, inequalities with negatives, solve equations with unknowns on both sides, equations and inequalities in context, substitution, rearranging formulae 

Testing conjectures – factors, multiples and primes, explore mathematical statements, exploring number properties, conjectures with numbers and algebra, expanding binomials 

 Straight line graphs, forming and solving equations 

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Three dimensional shapes – recognise 3-D shapes and their properties, construct nets of 3-D shapes, draw plans and elevations, review area of 2-D shapes, surface area of prisms and cylinders, volume of prisms and cylinders, investigate volume of cones, pyramids and spheres 

Constructions and congruency – draw and measure angles, review constructions work, construct and interpret scale drawings, loci, bisectors, congruent figures and rules of congruency with triangles 

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Folk Music: the context and history of folk music. Extended right hand technique on the keyboard. Whole chord accompaniments in the keyboard. Time Signatures, including compound time. Extended melodic vocabulary. 

Practical keyboard assessment 

Listening test 

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Folk Music – final keyboard assessment and listening. 

Jazz Music – learning about the history and context surrounding jazz music. Composing with chord sequences. Creating bass lines. Improvisation. Pentatonic minor scales. 

 Final folk music keyboard assessment. 

Listening test on folk music 

Formative feedback on composition work. 

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

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

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

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

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BIOLOGY  (3 lessons)

B1 – Introduction to Biology

• Cells
• Microscopy
• Specialisation and Differentiation
• Chromosomes

SCIENCE (5 lessons)

P4 – Atomic Structure

• Development of the model of the atom
• Structure of the atom
• Isotopes
• Radioactive decay and types of radiation
• Nuclear equations
• Half life and activity
• Contamination and irradiation
• Uses of radioactive isotopes

C9 – Chemistry of the Atmosphere

• Earth’s early atmosphere
• How oxygen increased
• Greenhouse gases
• Human influence
• Global climate change
• Carbon footprint
• Pollution

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.

Assessment on the whole of KS3 topics (year 7 and 8)

Extended response exam practice

Extended response exam practice

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BIOLOGY (3 lessons)

B1 continued

• Mitosis
• Stem cells
• Diffusion
• Osmosis
• Active transport

SCIENCE (5 lessons)

C9 – Chemistry of the Atmosphere

• Earth’s early atmosphere
• How oxygen increased
• Greenhouse gases
• Human influence
• Global climate change
• Carbon footprint
• Pollution

P2 Electricity

• Circuit diagrams
• Electrical charge and current
• Current, resistance and potential difference

Extended response exam practice

Extended response exam practice

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Recap of phonics.

Giving opinions & comparing different types of holiday.

Giving complex opinions & comparing different holiday activities.

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes

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Recap of phonics.

Giving opinions & comparing different types of holiday.

Giving complex opinions & comparing different holiday activities.

Using a range of tenses to discuss usual, past & future holidays.

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes

Speaking: Reading aloud task