Art

Autumn Term

 

ART

Project theme- Surrealism

Recording ideas to portray a meaning.

• Develop accuracy within work.
• Development of ideas.

ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Theme- Double exposure and ghost.

• How do images effect meaning?
• Understanding about how to use masked layers with growing control and showing sophistication.
• Colour adjustment- why these are used and when are they effective.
• Sophisticated adjustments, how can these develop your outcome.

Spring Term

 

ART

Project theme- Developing a personal response.

• Recording to develop a narrative.
• Refine ideas
• Personal artist focus, analysis of the artist and use of them to develop own work.

ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Theme- artivists- using art to portray a message.

• What is an artivist?
• Developing personal ideas and learning how to use photography to communicate them.
• Recording ideas,
• Refine ideas
• Development of personal ideas to portray and personal message.

Summer Term

 

ART

Project theme- Refining a personal response.

• Refining the recording of ideas.
• Refinement of idea and how to portray a message in work.
• Refine analysis of an artist.

ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Theme – We want change!

• challenge question for students to base their own project on.
• Understanding of how to plan time during a personal project.
• How to develop a personal response.
• How to communicate a message through work.
• Recording effective ideas with a clear purpose.
• Improving analysis.

Engineering Design and Technology

Introduction to coursework element of both DT and Engineering course. Students will get a mock run through of the coursework element before attempting it.  

Expand knowledge, improve skills and confidence as well as deepen understanding of the term “excellent quality” (students should be able to self-assess their work, make improvements and respond to feedback) 

Autumn Term:

Autumn Term DT:

• Revisit Year 9 content to fill gaps and clear misconceptions, Research techniques and product analysis

Autumn Term Engineering:

• Revisit Year 9 content to fill gaps and clear misconceptions, Quality Management (QC, QA, Standards)

Spring Term:

Spring Term DT:

• Energy generations and storage; flowcharts and programmable components

Spring Term Engineering:

• Manual production practical, Lathe, Production plans, risk assessments, quality control

 

Summer Term:

Summer Term DT: 

• Mock coursework to prepare for NEA to include laser cut flat pack furniture, preparation for end of year exam

Summer Term Engineering:

• Completion of Unit R110 and R112 (task 1, 3 and 4) ready to submit for moderation, preparation for end of year exam

Drama

Autumn Term

TBC

Spring Term

TBC

Summer Term

TBC

English 

We aim to introduce pupils to a wide range of ambitious texts written for different purposes to develop their knowledge of how integral such study is to understanding the world around them.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1

• Knowledge and skills covered in each half-term

• Know the plot, characters, themes and context of AIC.

• Know the format of the English Language Paper 1 exam.

• Know the poems: Storm on the Island

• Checking Out Me History

• The Emigree

• Tissue

   To define key terminology (imagery, personification, rhyme, rhythm, juxtaposition, simile, metaphor, repetition, sensory imagery, plosive sounds) and identify its use in poetry.

Autumn 2

• Know the format of the English Language Paper2  exam.

• Know the poems: Ozymandias, London, The Prelude, My Last Duchess

   To define key terminology (imagery, personification, rhyme, rhythm, juxtaposition, simile, metaphor, repetition, sensory imagery, plosive sounds) and identify its use in poetry.

Spring Term

Spring 1

• Know the plot, characters, themes and contexts of Macbeth.

• Know the war poems: CotLB

• Exposure

• Bayonet Charge

• Remains

French

At KS4, our students have the opportunity to continue their studies in either French, Spanish or Urdu. We use the Pearson Edexcel Exam Board.  Our Curriculum Intent is to continually develop confident and effective communicators in listening, speaking, reading and writing, who are able to be ambitious enough to use a rich vocabulary and draw on a sound grammatical knowledge.  Students need to be resilient language learners. Within our classrooms, we consistently emphasise that it is ok to make mistakes.  We believe where students learn is in deciding how they move on from these errors. This supportive environment allows our students to grow in confidence and not feel intimidated in speaking or presenting their work to others in the class.  Opportunities for reflection are built in at regular intervals, and the curriculum is designed to build students’ independence.

Autumn Term

Module 4 – Home and local area (De la ville à la campagne)

Describe a region/where you live, transport, discuss plans and the weather, talk about your town, village and neighbourhood, and use tourist information

Spring Term

Geography

Pupils will continue to broaden and deepen their Geographical understanding.  As pupils become more adept at the subject they will tackle some of the more challenging aspects of the course and make links between physical, human and environmental aspects of the subject.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1

Topic: The Challenge of Natural Hazards – Tectonics

• What are natural hazards
• Factors affecting risk
• Plate tectonics
• Distribution of quakes and volcanoes
• HIC Case Study – New Zealand
• LIC Case Study – Nepal
• How responses vary between HIC & LIC
• Why do people live in hazard zones
• Global atmospheric circulation
• Global distribution of tropical storms

Autumn 2

Topic: The Challenge of Natural Hazards – Tropical Storms, Extreme Weather UK & Climate change

• Causes of tropical storms
• Structure and features of tropical storms
• Effects and responses of a tropical storm
• Case Study – Hurricane Katrina
• Weather in the UK
• Extreme weather in the UK – Case study North of England 2016 – Causes, social, economic and environmental impacts and management strategies
• Evidence that UK weather is becoming more extreme
• Evidence of climate change
• Effects of climate change
• Managing climate change

Spring Term

History

By the end of year 10 students would have continued to develop their knowledge of key concepts and skills. They will have a secure understanding of how different factors have led to medical progress overtime, the impact that WW1 had on international relations and why the League of Nations failed.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1

Medicine, c1000-present day

Renaissance Medicine: C1500-1800

• Reformation and Renaissance
• Work of Pare, Harvey and Vesalius
• Significance skills
• New methods and treatments
• Great Plague and public health
• John Hunter
• Hospitals
• Jenner and vaccination
• Comparison skills 

19th Century Medicine

• Development of anaesthetics
• Louis Pasteur Germ Theory

Autumn 2

• Lister develops antiseptics
• Robert Koch
• Link between Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Ehrlich

 Assessment

 19th and 20th Century Public Health

• 19th century Laissez faire Public Health
• Cholera epidemics
• John Snow Cholera breakthrough
• Improvements to PH
• Source skills

Spring Term

Spring 1

Maths

By the end of year 10, pupils should have completed the bulk of the content required for GCSE. Pupils should be able to approach most GCSE tasks with some degree of confidence, and be able to apply a variety of mathematical concepts in different ways.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1

Graphs (Foundation): Co-ordinates, Linear graphs, Distance time graphs.

Equations and inequalities (Higher): Quadratic equations, Simultaneous equations, Inequalities.

Autumn 2

Transformations (Foundation): The four transformations, Describing transformations, Combined transformations.

Probability (Higher): Combined events, Mutual exclusivity, Tree diagram, Venn diagrams, Conditional probability.

Ratio and proportion (Foundation): Using ratio, Comparing ration, Proportion, Graphs of proportionality.

Multiplicative reasoning (Higher): Growth and decay, Compound measures.

Spring Term

Music

 

Autumn Term

 

 Spring Term

Religious Studies

As students’ progress into Key Stage 4, a broader and more in-depth understanding of Christianity and Islam is given that will further deepen their understandings from Key Stage 3, whilst also equip learners with key beliefs, teachings and practices of both religions. They will also be introduced to and be taught the contents of the Themes Syllabus, covering relevant and topical ideas from Human Rights and Social Justice, Crime and Punishment, Religion and Life and Relationships and families.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1

Topic:  Christianity – Practices [Paper 1]

• Worship
• Prayer and the Lord’s prayer
• Holy Communion
• Baptism
• Celebrating festivals
• Pilgrimage

Autumn 2 

Topic: Christianity – Practices

• The role of the church [food banks]
• The role of the church [Persecution]
• Mission and Evangelism
• Helping the poor – Christian Aid, CAFOD and Tear fund
• Church Growth

Spring Term

Science

By the end of year 10 students will be able to understand aspects of Cells, Organisation, Disease, Bioenergetics and Ecology in Biology. Atoms, Bonding, Moles, Chemical reactions and Energy Changes in Chemistry and Energy, Energy Resources and Particles in Physics.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1

Biology – Cell Structure and transport, Cell division.

Skills – using a microscope and understanding cell processes.

Chemistry – Atomic Structure.

Skill- Understanding the structure of an atom.

Physics- Conservation and Dissipation of Energy

Skill- Calculating efficiency and how to calculate energy stores.

Autumn 2

Biology – Organisation and the Digestive system.

Skills – carrying out food investigations and understanding the role of enzymes.

Chemistry- The periodic table and Structure and Bonding.

Skill- Explaining trends in the periodic table and how compounds form.

Physics- Energy Transfer by Heating and Energy Resources

Skill- Calculating thermal energy and developing knowledge around renewable energy sources.

Spring Term

Spring 1

Biology – Organising Plant and Animal Cells and Communicable Diseases.

Skills – Understanding gas exchange and diseases can spread but also be prevented.

Chemistry- Chemical calculations.

Skill – Balancing equations

Physics- Electric Circuits.

Skill- investigating different electrical circuits and how to calculate resistance.

Spring 2

Biology – Preventing and Treating Disease and Non-communicable Diseases.

Skills- How drugs are developed and how humans can increase life spans.

Chemistry- Chemical changes and Electrolysis

Skill- Investigating how to extract metals using electricity.

Physics- Electricity in the Home and Molecules and Matter.

Skill- Analysing how electricity is used in the home.

Summer Term

Summer 1

Biology – Respiration and Photosynthesis.

Skills- practical investigations into how plants photosynthesise and how humans use different pathways in respirations.

Chemistry- Energy Changes

Skill- Investigating how to make salts and developing knowledge around the reactivity series.

Physics- Radioactivity

Skill- calculating Half-life.

Summer 2

Biology – Ecology

Skills – understanding why organisms adapt. The importance of ecosystems and how humans have had an impact on biodiversity.

Spanish

At KS4, our students have the opportunity to continue their studies in either French, Spanish or Urdu. We use the Pearson Edexcel Exam Board.  Our Curriculum Intent is to continually develop confident and effective communicators in listening, speaking, reading and writing, who are able to be ambitious enough to use a rich vocabulary and draw on a sound grammatical knowledge.  Students need to be resilient language learners. Within our classrooms, we consistently emphasise that it is ok to make mistakes.  We believe where students learn is in deciding how they move on from these errors. This supportive environment allows our students to grow in confidence and not feel intimidated in speaking or presenting their work to others in the class.  Opportunities for reflection are built in at regular intervals, and the curriculum is designed to build students’ independence.

Autumn Term

Module 4 – Free time, sports, trends & entertainment

(¡Intereses y influencias!)

 Talk about free-time activities, talk about tv programmes and films, talk about sports and what is trending, talk about who inspires you

 

Spring Term

Core PE

Every child across the UK must have access to 2 hours per week of school sport/ PE lessons. The aim of core PE is to:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• are physically active for sustained periods of time
• engage in competitive sports and activities
• lead healthy, active lives

Year 9

A variety of activities are available during year 8 to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop a vast amount of skills. Activities include:

• Basketball
• Dance
• Badminton
• Football
• Trampolining
• Netball
• Athletics
• Cricket/ Rounders
• Football Leadership
• Table tennis
• Volleyball
• Handball
• Athletics
• Cricket/ Softball

Extra-curricular activities:

There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities offered including:

• Cricket
• Table Tennis
• Football
• Basketball
• Fitness

Urdu

At KS4, our students have the opportunity to continue their studies in either French, Spanish or Urdu. We use the Pearson Edexcel Exam Board.  Our Curriculum Intent is to continually develop confident and effective communicators in listening, speaking, reading and writing, who are able to be ambitious enough to use a rich vocabulary and draw on a sound grammatical knowledge.  Students need to be resilient language learners. Within our classrooms, we consistently emphasise that it is ok to make mistakes.  We believe where students learn is in deciding how they move on from these errors. This supportive environment allows our students to grow in confidence and not feel intimidated in speaking or presenting their work to others in the class.  Opportunities for reflection are built in at regular intervals, and the curriculum is designed to build students’ independence.

Autumn Term

Module 4 – Home and local area                 

 (شہر سے ملک تک)

 Talk about places in a city, understand and give directions, describe the features of a region, talk about problems in a town, recognise different shopsSpring Term

Personal Development

Autumn Term

TBC

Computer Science and IT

The purpose of the KS4 curriculum is to prepare pupils with the mind-set of a computer scientist and build on the foundation set at KS3. As such, students will have the opportunity to gain experience, knowledge, and creativity in computer science and digital information technology.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1 & 2

Programming Fundamentals 

• What are the three basic programming constructs used to control the flow of a program: sequence  selection iteration (count and condition controlled loops)
• Why do programs use variables, constants, operators, inputs, outputs and assignments?
• The use of datatypes
• The use of basic file handling operations.
• What is string manipulation?
• Identify 1 and 2d arrays
• Why using sub programs is useful, the difference between a function and a procedure
• The different data types and what they store
• Common arithmetic operators
• Common Boolean operators
• The use of records to store data.
• The use of SQL to search for data.

 

Spring Term

Digital Information Technology

The purpose of the KS4 curriculum is to prepare pupils with the mind-set of a computer scientist and build on the foundation set at KS3. As such, students will have the opportunity to gain experience, knowledge, and creativity in computer science and digital information technology.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1 & 2

Component 1 – Learning Aim A and B of Component 1 on User interfaces

Students attempt the internal component of the course based on the skills they have been taught in Year 9.

Component 1 – Learning Aim C – Creating and evaluating a user interface

Students attempt the internal component of the course based on the skills they have been taught in Year 9.

Spring Term