Business
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
What is a Business
Understanding Customer Needs
Marketing
Marketing Mix
Analysing Competitors
Analysing Customers
Product Trial
Product Life Cycle
Year 11
Recruitment
Ethics in business
Controlled Assessment
Market Research
Adding Value
Options available in starting up a business
Limited Liability
Spring
Term
Invention & innovation
Start up and Legal Issues
What is Enterprise
Being Creative
Business Objectives
Design and research development
Motivation
Organisational Structures
Communication
Remuneration
Environmental issues
Demand and supply
Interest & Exchange rates
Managing stock and quality
Customer Satisfaction, Effective customer service
Summer
Term
Productivity and Consumer protection laws
Business cycle
Fixed and Variable Costs
Impact of govt& EU
Costs and Revenue
Economics & Intl trade
Cash Flow
Stakeholders
Cash Flow Improvement
Past Paper
How To improve Profit
Revision
Break even-analysis
Improving - Break even-analysis
Obtaining Finance
Financial Growth
Computing and ICT
Year 7
Creating a virtual tour and
presenting information
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
An Introduction to Computer
Control
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 1
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 3
GCSE ICT Unit 1 exam content –
topics 1 and 2
Algorithms and Flowcharts
Databases, searching
information and web banners
Developing an audio promo
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 1 and 3
GCSE Computing (Option) A451/A452
Autumn
Term
Developing a teaser video
(video editing)
Developing an interactive
product (website)
Designing and creating a game
using Scratch
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Designing and creating a game
using Scratch
Split groups will also study
Website Production using
Dreamweaver
Creating a spreadsheet to
model a business scenario
Website Production using
Dreamweaver
Split groups will also study
Website Production using
Dreamweaver
Writing HTML
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 2
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 1 and 3
GCSE Computing (Option) A453
GCSE ICT Unit 1 exam content –
topics 3 and 4
Spreadsheet modelling, writing
a business report and digital
advertising
Developing a teaser video
(video editing)
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 4
Developing an interactive
product (website)
Improving previous products
with test buddy feedback
GCSE Computing (Option) A451/A452
GCSE Computing (Option) A453
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 3
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 4
GCSE ICT Unit 1 exam content –
topics 4 and 5
Developing a video advert
(video editing)
Improving previous products
with test buddy feedback
GCSE ICT Controlled
Assessment – Activity 4
Developing an interactive
product (website)
Reviewing, reflecting upon and
evaluating products
Improving previous products
with test buddy feedback
GCSE Computing (Option) A451/A452
GCSE Computing (Option) A453
Dance
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Dance Technique:
Skills development for dance,
basics of choreography and
dance movement.
Performance and audience
skills development.
Contemporary Dance
Technique:
Graham technique of
contraction and release.
Choreography and
performance.
Choreography:
The four main components of
choreography and the four
main components of dance.
Creation and development of
motifs and themes.
Christopher Bruce and Rambert
Dance:
Choreography using a stimulus.
How to move with purpose in
dance.
Asian Dance:
How dance is used in Asian
culture.
Bollywood.
Dance performance.
Jazz dance:
Origins of jazz dance.
Influence of Bob Fosse.
Use of jazz dance in different
settings.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship
Performance:
Choreographing and
performing to a given brief in a
professional, vocational
setting.
Drama
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Introduction to Drama: Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory
Rosa Parkes: Stereotypes and
Equality
Once Upon a time: Story Telling
Pantomime
Asian Folk Tales
Musical Theatre: Oliver!
Advertising:
Pipers Crisps
War - Characterisation
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Joint unit with Music)
Celebrity: Big Brothers Little
Sister – Modern Media and
Drama
English
Autumn
Term
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Unit 1: ‘Millions’ Frank Cottrell
Boyce Novel Study
Students will study the novel,
and complete a variety of
activities to improve their
reading comprehension. They
will also complete a range of
writing tasks based on the
novel to improve their writing
skills. Speaking and listening
skills
will be threaded throughout
the unit to provide the
opportunity for students to
make formal presentations,
participate in debate and
complete drama activities.
Unit 1: ‘Holes’ Louis Sachar
Novel Study
Students will study the novel,
and complete a variety of
activities to improve their
reading comprehension. They
will also complete a range of
writing tasks based on the
novel to improve their writing
skills. Speaking and listening
skills will be threaded
throughout the unit to provide
the opportunity for students to
make formal presentations and
participate in debate.
Unit 1: ‘Stone Cold’ Robert
Swindells Novel Study
Students will study the novel,
and complete a variety of
activities to improve their
reading comprehension. They
will also complete a range of
writing tasks based on the
novel to improve their writing
skills. Speaking and listening
skills will be threaded
throughout the unit to provide
the opportunity for students to
make formal presentations and
participate in debate.
Students will begin their GCSE
study. We follow the Edexcel
Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in
English Language.
Unit 1: Section B Texts Poetry.
Students will study the
following texts from the
Edexcel Anthology:
‘Disabled’;
‘ “Out,Out-“ ‘
‘Refugee Blues’
‘An Unknown Girl’
‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa
Bottom’.
They will develop their ability
to respond to the reading
questions in the exam.
Unit 2: War Poetry
Students will study a selection
of poetry, including the works
of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried
Sassoon. They will be taught to
recognise a range of poetic
conventions and understanding
how these have been used.
They will study the
poetic form, linguistic devices
and be encouraged to develop
personal interpretations of
poetry. Students will be taught
to write academic essays
about poetry as well as writing
imaginatively.
Unit 2: Poetry from Different
Cultures
Students will study the poetic
form, linguistic devices and be
encouraged to develop
personal interpretations of
poetry. Students will be taught
to write academic essays about
poetry as well as writing
imaginatively. This will help to
prepare them for the study of
poetry at GCSE level.
Unit 2:Module 2: Introduction
to Poetry
Students will study a selection
of poetry, including the works
of Benjamin
Zephaniah and William
Shakespeare. They will study
the poetic form, linguistic
devices and be encouraged to
develop personal
interpretations of poetry.
Students will be taught to write
academic essays about poetry
as well as writing imaginatively.
Unit 1: Unseen Non Fiction
Students will study a range of
non-fiction texts to prepare
them for the first section of the
exam. The unit develops the
skills required to answer these
questions.
Unit 2: Writing to Inform,
Explain and Describe
Students will study the features
of writing to inform, explain
and describe. They will look at
a variety of texts with these
purposes, and produce their
own.
Unit 2: Section B Texts Short
Stories.
Students will study the
following texts from the
Edexcel Anthology:
‘The Last Night (From Charlotte
Gray)’
‘Veronica’
‘The Necklace’
‘A Hero’
‘King Schahriar and his brother’
They will develop their ability
to respond to the reading
questions in the exam.
Spring
Term
Unit 3: Advertising (Unseen
Non Fiction Unit)
Students will study and analyse
a selection of advertisements.
Throughout this unit, they will
study persuasive language.
They will be taught to
understand the relationships
between words and how to
understand nuances in
meaning. They will then apply
these skills to their own work.
Unit 3: The Cult of Celebrity
(Unseen Non Fiction Unit)
Students will study a range of
non-fiction texts, focusing on
the presentation of celebrities
in the media. They will be
taught to understand the
relationships between words
and how to understand
nuances in meaning. They will
then apply these skills to their
own work.
Unit 4: Literary Heritage Unit
Students will study a range of
short stories including the
works of Frances Hodgson
Burnett and Lewis Carroll.
They will also complete a range
of writing tasks based
on the short stories to improve
their writing skills. Speaking
and listening skills will be
threaded throughout the unit
to provide the opportunity for
students to make formal
presentations and participate
in debate.
Unit 4: Literary Heritage Unit:
The Detective Genre
Students will study a range of
short stories including the
works of Arthur Conan
Doyle and Roald Dahl. They will
also complete a range of
writing tasks based on the
short stories to improve their
writing skills. Speaking and
listening skills will be threaded
throughout the unit to provide
the opportunity for students to
make formal presentations and
participate in debate.
Unit 3: The Power of the
Media (Unseen Non Fiction
Unit)
Students will study a range of
non-fiction texts, with the main
focus of how the media
influences the audience. They
will be taught to understand
the relationships between
words and how to understand
nuances in meaning. They will
then apply these skills to their
own work. This will help to
prepare them for the unseen
non-fiction section of the GCSE
exam.
Unit 4: Literary Heritage Unit:
The Horror Genre
Students will study a range of
short stories, including the
works of Mary Shelley and
Robert Louis Stevenson. They
will also complete a range of
writing tasks based on the
short stories to improve their
writing skills. Speaking and
listening skills
will be threaded throughout
the unit to provide the
opportunity for students to
make formal presentations and
participate in debate.
Unit 3: Section A Anthology
Texts
Descriptive Texts
Students will study the
following texts from the
Edexcel Anthology:
‘From Touching the Void’;
‘From A Game of Polo with a
Headless Goat’;
‘From Taking on the World’.
They will develop their ability
to respond to the reading and
writing questions in the exam.
Unit 4: Section A Anthology
Texts
Descriptive Texts continued
Students will study the
following texts from the
Edexcel Anthology:
‘From A Passage to Africa’;
‘From The Explorer’s
Daughter’;
‘From Chinese Cinderella’.
They will develop their ability
to respond to the reading and
writing questions in the exam.
In the final terms in the follow
up to the exams, class teachers
plan lessons that are tailored to
meet the specific needs of their
students. Our priority is
ensuring that they feel fully
prepared for their
examinations. This will include
revision of all of the topics that
they have covered throughout
years 10 and 11 so far.
Unit 5: Introduction to
Shakespeare
Students will be introduced to
the works of Shakespeare.
They will study a range of
extracts from his plays focusing
on plot, setting, and character.
They will also complete a range
of writing tasks based on the
extracts to improve their
writing skills. Speaking and
listening skills will be threaded
throughout the unit to provide
the opportunity for students to
make formal presentations,
participate in debate and
complete drama activities.
Summer
Term
Unit 6: My First Year at
Havelock Academy: Writing to
argue, persuade and advise;
writing to inform, explain and
describe.
They will complete a range of
writing tasks about their first
year at Havelock
Academy, including producing
a guide to advise new students
to the school about the
transition from Primary to
Secondary. Students will be
given the opportunity to write
clearly, accurately and
coherently, adapting their
language and style in and for a
range of contexts, purposes
and audiences.
Unit 5: ‘Macbeth’ William
Shakespeare
Students will study the play,
and focus on developing their
knowledge of how language,
including figurative language,
vocabulary choice, grammar,
text structure and
organisational features,
presents meaning in the text.
They will also complete a range
of writing tasks based on the
novel to improve their writing
skills. Speaking and listening
skills will be threaded
throughout the unit to provide
the opportunity for students to
make formal presentations and
participate in debate.
Unit 6: Disasters: Writing to
argue, persuade and advise;
writing to inform, explain and
describe.
They will complete a range of
writing tasks based around real
life, natural and man-made
disasters. Students will be
given the opportunity to write
clearly, accurately and
coherently, adapting their
language and style in and for a
range of contexts, purposes
and audiences.
Unit 5: ‘The Tempest’ William
Shakespeare
Students will study the play,
and focus on developing their
knowledge of how language,
including figurative language,
vocabulary choice, grammar,
text structure and
organisational features,
presents meaning in the text.
They will also complete a range
of writing tasks based on the
novel to improve their writing
skills. Speaking and listening
skills will be threaded
throughout the unit to provide
the opportunity for students to
make formal presentations,
participate in debate and
complete drama activities.
Unit 6: Dragon’s Den: Writing
to argue, persuade and advise;
writing to inform, explain and
describe.
Students will complete a range
of writing tasks, focusing on
the purposes they need to
master for the GCSE exams.
Students will be given the
opportunity to write clearly,
accurately and coherently,
adapting their language and
style in and for a range of
contexts, purposes and
audiences. This unit is designed
to prepare them for the writing
component of the GCSE
examinations.
Unit 5: Section A Anthology
Texts
Descriptive Texts continued
Students will study the
following texts from the
Edexcel Anthology:
‘From A Passage to Africa’;
‘From The Explorer’s
Daughter’;
‘From Chinese Cinderella’.
They will develop their ability
to respond to the reading and
writing responses in the exam.
Unit 6: Writing to argue,
persuade and advise.
Students will complete a range
of writing tasks, focusing on
developing the ability to write
to argue, persuade and advise.
Students will be given the
opportunity to write clearly,
accurately and coherently,
adapting their language and
style in and for a range of
contexts, purposes and
audiences.
Ethics
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Year 8
World Religions
Religion and Relationships
Introduction to Hinduism, Judaism,
Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and
Sikhism.
Love and marriage, entering a
community, friendship and charity,
prejudice and discrimination.
An introduction to the main beliefs
and practices of the major world
religions. Comparing and evaluating
different religions and how these
relate to our own beliefs.
Module 2
Ultimate questions
Exploring the “big ideas” of religion –
who made the world? What happens
after we die? Can miracles really
happen?
Summer
Term
Year 9
Year 10
Moral issues
Religion and Morality
Considering a range of
beliefs about modern
day ethical issues,
including abortion,
euthanasia, animal
rights, drug abuse.
Religious and secular
beliefs about matters
of life (medical ethics),
the elderly and death,
crime and drug abuse.
Year 11
Religion and Life
Issues
Religious and secular
beliefs about abortion
and early life,
prejudice, animal
rights and planet
earth.
Geography
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Earth’s crumbling
coastlines
What is Geography?
Settlement
Settlement
Natural Hazards
Natural Hazards
Economic
Development
Economic
Development
Rivers
Rivers
Fieldwork and
Controlled assessment
write up
Fieldwork and
Controlled assessment
write up
Environmental issues
Wild weather and crazy climates
Moving around – migration
China
Wild weather and crazy climates
Earth’s blooming rainforests
Who wants to live
forever?
Fantastic places
Violent volcanoes, quakes and
tsunamis
Earth’s crumbling coastlines
Summer
Term
Year 11
Population
Settlement
Our unfair world
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Year 10
Population
Settlement
Graphics
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Year 11
Bird Feeder Project
Design, make and
evaluate
Box with laser
engraved lip
Design, make and
evaluate
Maze Marble Game
Design, make and evaluate
Storage Box Project
Bird Feeder Project
Design, make and
evaluate
Head torch design –
CAD designed.
Themed Clock
Design, make and evaluate
Research
Objective 1 & 2
Design Brief and analysis
Revision and exam
preparation
Revision booklets and past
papers
Health and Social care
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Unit 1: Human Lifespan
Unit 1:Human Lifespan
Exam preparation for Human
Lifespan Exam (10.01.15)
Exam preparation for Human
Lifespan Exam (10.01.15)
Human Lifespan Exam
(10.01.15)
Human Lifespan Exam
(10.01.15)
Introduce unit 2: Health and
Social care values.
Introduce unit 2: Health and
Social care values.
1st assignment set
1st and 2nd assignment set.
Unit 2: Health and social care
values – assignment 2
Introduce unit 3: social
influences on health and
wellbeing.
Introduce unit 3:social
influences on health and
wellbeing.
Complete assignment 1 and 2
History
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Local History
Stuarts
World War 1
Who should be King?
Industrial Revolution
World War 2
William the Conqueror
The British Empire
Events that shook the
world
The Middle Ages
World War 1
Health and Medicine through time
World War 2
Crime and Punishment
through time
Civil Rights Movement
in America
Year 10
Year 11
Roman Crime and
Punishment
Middle Age Britain
Crime and Punishment
Early Modern Britain
Crime and Punishment
Industrial Britain
Crime and Punishment
Modern Britain Crime
and Punishment
Protest and Reaction
between 1800-1914
Civil Rights Movement
in America
Civil Rights Movement
in America
Germany 1918-1945 –
The German Republic
1918-1929
Germany 1918-1945 –
Hitler’s rise to power
Germany 1918-1945 –
Nazi Germany in peace
and war
Leisure and Tourism
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Controlled assessment from a title given
by AQA exam board.
What are tourist destinations?
Investigation into tourist destinations in
the UK and overseas
Currently investigating home/ local area
and facilities in Leisure and Tourism
Module 2
Visitor attractions in the UK and
overseas
Spring
Term
Types of customer
Module 3
Methods of transport and travel
How people travel to different
destinations
Module 4
Summer
Term
Year 11
What is the meaning of leisure and
tourism? Reasons for tourism
Impacts of tourism and sustainability.
Types of impact - social, environmental
and economic
Case studies in UK and worldwide.
Mathematics
Year 7
Autumn
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Sequences
Number skills
2D and 3D shapes
Perimeter and area
Probability
Year 8
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Equivalent
fractions/decimals/per
centages
Rounding
Percentage’s
Interpreting scales
Constructions
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Equivalent
fractions/decimals/per
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Angle properties
Measuring angles
Averages
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Proportional reasoning
Add/subtract fractions
Solve linear equations
Trial and improvement
Use formulae for
calculating area
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Using a calculator
Ratio and proportion
Translations
Collecting and
recording data
Representing data
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Sequences and graphs
More angle properties
Design surveys and
experiments
Select appropriate
diagrams to represent
data
More probability
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Year 10
Proportionality
Multiplying and
dividing by decimals
Simplifying algebra
Solving equations
Inequalities
Calculate lengths,
areas and volumes in
plane shapes and right
prisms
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Equations and
expressions
Factors, multiples,
primes, squares and
cubes
Fractions
Measure
Percentages
Ratio
Angle properties
Sequences and graphs
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Equations, expressions
and formulae
Prime factor
decomposition
Recurring decimals
Measure
Compound
percentages
Ratio and proportion
Estimation by
rounding
Using a calculator
Finding the nth term
Plotting graphs
Enlargements
Rotations
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Transformations
Probability
Estimation
Indices
Quadratic equations
Representing data
Circle theorems
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More Transformations
Further Probability
Limits of accuracy
Surds
Representing data
Circle theorems
Compound measures
Sampling
Averages from large
data sets
Comparing data
Relative frequency
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More graphs
Simultaneous
equations
Trigonometry
Proportion
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Vectors
Simultaneous
equations
Further representing
data
Further Trigonometry
Further Proportion
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Music
Year 7
Introduction to Music:
Year 8
Singing Techniques and
Performance
The elements of music
Autumn
Term
Song/Lyric Writing
Rhythm Composition
Ensemble Singing – The
Ostinato
Introduction to singing
Christmas Music
Summer
Term
Year 11
GCSE Music:
Core Areas of Study
World Music
Core Areas of Study
The Orchestra
Orchestral Music over time
GCSE Music:
Controlled Assessment:
Composition (in the style of
one of the core areas of study)
Core Areas of Study
Compositional Techniques and
Performance
GCSE Music:
Controlled Assessment:
Performances:
Solo Performance
Ensemble Performance
GarageBand Popular
Composing
Asian Music:
12 Bar Blues
Music of Japan
Pentatonic Scales
Cyclic Music
Gamelan
Improvisation
Film and Programme Music:
Wallace and Gromit
Composition Project
Composing with Blues Scale
and Bass Riff
Musical Theatre: Singing
Performance
Musical Theatre
Keyboards: Chords
Music for Advertising
Programme Music:
Peter and the Wolf
The Carnival of the Animals
Music for Special Events:
Lullabies
Marches
Fanfares
The Hare and the Tortoise
Year 10
GCSE Music:
Core Areas of Study
History of Popular Music
The Blues
Keyboards: Chords and
Christmas Performance
Introduction to keyboards
Spring
Term
Year 9
Popular Music: The Beatles
GarageBand Compositions
The Blues:
Texture and layers
Music History:
The Baroque
Bach – Minuet in G
Composition of a Minuet
Revision for Listening Exam
MFL
Year 7
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
First steps and new target
language
Describing holidays
Describing people in detail
Personal information
Travel and the wider world
Classroom rules
Food and drink preferences
Why are language learning
skills important?
Likes and dislikes
Talking about holiday venues
School equipment
Skills focus – use of present
and past tense
Grammar focus – the
importance of vouloir, pouvoir
and devoir in French
communication
The lives of other people –
relatives and friends
Making holiday and complex
travel plans
Hobbies , interests and free
time
Describing a destination
Making arrangements to go out
Dining out abroad
TV and Cinema
Talking about a dream holiday
and an ideal destination
Introduction to grammar –
masculine and feminine
Autumn
Term
Year 8
Language focus – using a range
of opinions
Family members
How do we express quantity in
French via words and numbers
Simple descriptions of people
Language focus – using
expressions of time and
knowing the French for periods
in history
Describing what you have seen
or read
My house
The world around us – what
does our world look like?
Rooms of the house
What can we learn about
France from her achievements
of the past?
Weather and climate
Spring
Term
Description of town and local
area
Language focus – use of
comparatives and superlatives
Grammar focus – looking at the
past tense in detail
Dangerous places
Who are the cultural heroes of
France and what is their
significance in the modern
world?
Comparing places
Grammar focus – use of the
imperfect tense
Producing a film review
(written coursework)
Producing an account of a past
or an ideal holiday (written
coursework)
Talking about where you live
Health, sport and fitness
Description of house and home
Talking about food and drink
Parts of the body
Talking about the advantages
and disadvantages of where
you live
Describing illnesses
Talking about a healthy lifestyle
Comparing places
What is the future for France
and Europe?
Environmental issues
Language focus – use of ilfaut
de and c’est important de
Discussing life and culture in
Francophone countries
Discussing addictions and
health problems
Finding your way around a
town – use of directions
Making travel arrangements
Producing an evaluation of
personal health (spoken
coursework)
Producing an account of where
I live and my opinions of my
home town (spoken
coursework)
Life at school
Hobbies and sports
School subjects
Grammar focus – use of
present, past and future tenses
How to French and English
schools differ?
What are my academic
preferences?
Summer
Term
Making informed choices about
the future and being able to
justify them
Discussing my school
Discussion of world issues
Rules, restrictions and
pressures for young people
Talking about all the problems
the world faces
Language focus – improving
reading skills
Pocket money and jobs
Looking at French artistic
expression
Grammar focus – using the
conditional tense to talk about
possibilities and wishes
Talking about school subjects
and how they will affect my
future
Discussion of the environment
The role of technology in
modern France
Discussing jobs and money
Producing an evaluation of the
state of the world and
discussing improvement
strategies for a brighter future
(written coursework)
Language focus – being able to
produce detailed descriptions
Cultural critique – a review of a
film or a piece of music
Talking about jobs and the
qualities required to do them
successfully
Producing a blog about current
school life and experiences
and hopes for the future
Understanding complex world
news stories
Extended skill revision
(listening, speaking, reading
and writing)
Performing Arts
Year 9
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Year 11
The world of Celebrity: Big
Brother’s Little Sister
Skills Development:
“Spotligh
Coursework Portfolio: Review
of Skills Development
Musical Theatre Performance:
Working in the industry –
auditions, rehearsals, key to
success
Skills Development:
The Performing Arts Industry
November Onwards:
Showcase Performance Brief:
Planning, Preparation and
Scheduling Rehearsals
Musical Theatre Performance
(continued from Autumn Term)
Portfolio: Practice Brief 1 –
working as a theatre company
to prepare and deliver a
performance to a brief: Family
Audience
Theatre for Children:
Devising Children’s Theatre
Skills Development:
Performing Arts Products
Showcase Performance:
Rehearsal Period and
Performance moderation
(March/April)
Dance/Drama/Music/Theatre
Practitioners
Theatre in Education:
Roles and Responsibilities
Ensemble Dance Performance
Summer
Term
Year 10
Performing to an Audience: TIE
brief on “The Fairy Story.”
Portfolio: Practice Brief 2 –
working as a theatre company
to prepare and deliver a
performance to a brief: Theatre
in Education
Dance/Drama/Music/Theatre
Practitioners
Completion of Coursework
Portfolios: Skills Development
and Evaluation of Showcase
Performance
Psychology
Year 10
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 11
Sex and Gender
Criminal Behaviour
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and
application of research.
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and application
of research.
Memory
Perception
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and
application of research.
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and application
of research.
Attachment
Cognitive Development
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and
application of research.
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and application
of research.
Obedience
Non-verbal communication
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and
application of research.
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and application
of research.
Why and how people’s behaviour is controlled.
The self
Atypical behaviour
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and application
of research.
Key concepts, a core theory, and alternative theory, a core study and
application of research.
Why and how people behave differently from the norm, including mental
disorders.
Research in Psychology
Methodology, ethics, issues of reliability and validity.
Resistant Materials
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Year 11
Bird Feeder Project
Design, make and
evaluate
Box with laser
engraved lip
Design, make and
evaluate
Maze Marble Game
Design, make and evaluate
Storage Box Project
Bird Feeder Project
Design, make and
evaluate
Head torch design –
CAD designed.
Themed Clock
Design, make and evaluate
Research
Objective 1 & 2
Design Brief and analysis
Revision and exam
preparation
Revision booklets and past
papers
Science
Year 7
Topics:
A Cells
B Reproduction
E Acids and Alkalis
F Simple Chemical Reactions
G Solids, Liquids and Gases
H Solutions
Year 8
Topics:
B Respiration
E Atoms and Elements
F Compounds and Mixtures
I Heating and Cooling
J Magnetism
Autumn
Term
Year 9
Year 10
GCSE Topics
GCSE Topics
B1
Topic 1 Keeping Healthy
Topic 2 Coordination and
Control
Topic 3 Medicine and Drugs
C1
Topic 2 Rocks and Building
Materials
Topic 3 Metals and Uses
Topic 4 Crude Oil
B2
Topic 4 Energy from
Respiration
C1
Topic 1 Fundamental Ideas
P1
Topic 1Energy Transfer by
Heating
Topic 2 Using Energy
Topic 3 Electrical Energy
ISA Controlled Assessment
Topics:
I Energy Resources
J Electrical Circuits
C Environment and Feeding
Relationships
D Variation and Classification
Spring
Term
Topics:
C Microbes and Disease
D Ecological Relationships
G Rocks and Weathering
H The Rock Cycle
Year 11
GCSE Topics
P2
Topic 1 Motion
Topic 2 Forces
Topic 3 Work, Energy,
Momentum
C2
Topic 1 Structure and Bonding
Topic 2 Structure and
Properties
GCSE Topics
GCSE Topics
ISA Controlled Assessment
GCSE Topics
C1
Topic 2 Rocks and Building
Materials
Topic 3 Metals and Uses
Topic 4 Crude Oil
P1
Topic 4 Generating Electricity
Topic 5 Waves
Topic 6 Electromagnetic Waves
C2
Topic 3 How much?
Topic 4 Rates and Energy
Topic 5 Salts and Electrolysis
B1
Topic 4 Adaptation for Survival
Topic 5 Energy in Biomass
Topic 6 Variation and
Reproduction
Topic 7 Evolution
B2
Topic 5 Simple Inheritance
Topic 6 Old and New Species
P2
Topic 4 Current Electricity
Topic 5 Mains Electricity
Topic 6 Radioactivity
Topic 7 Energy from the
Nucleus
Summer
Term
Topics:
K Forces and their Effects
L The Solar System and Beyond
Topics:
K Light
L Sound and Hearing
8A Food and digestion
9C+D Plants
9E+F Reactions
GCSE Topics
GCSE Topics
P1
Topic 1 Energy Transfer by
Heating
Topic 2 Using Energy
Topic 3 Electrical Energy
C1
Topic 5 Products from Oil
Topic 6 Plant Oils
Topic 7 Our Changing Planet
B2
Topic 1 Cells and Tissues
Topic 2 Organisms in the
Environment
Topic 3 Enzymes
Revision for the Science Exams
Visual Arts
Year 7
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Introduction to
art skills.
Various media
is used to
create a variety
of art pieces
based on
‘Natural
Studies’
Portraits and
Picasso
Rules of
portraiture
Picasso style
pastel drawing
and a Picasso
style collage.
Techniquespeople in art
studies.
Art Time Line
A
comprehensive
study of 20th
century Art.
Looking at a
different artist
every week
and produce a
piece of art
Pop Art Sweets
Various mixed
media tasks
looking in depth
at Pop Art.
Tasks include
research,
various drawing
and painting
techniques and
3d work in
groups
Various media is
used to create a
variety of art
pieces based on
‘Natural Studies’
including wet and
dry media and
materials
1st Half – will be continuation of Natural Project
worth 30% of the final work
AO4 will be a 10 hour times final piece produced in
lesson time
2nd Half
Students will work on a Portrait project creating a
portfolio of mixed media work in the style of various
artists. As work progresses it will become more
individualised to play to students strengths and
develop independent learners.
Aboriginal
Boomerangs.
A cultural
study of
Aboriginal art ,
signs and
symbols
resulting in a
3D boomerang
style art piece.
Animal Eyes 3D
sculptures.
Working with
newspaper and
3D modelling to
create animal
eye sculpture
Mock Exam – year
9’s will be given a
set of questions
taken from a past
exam paper –
they will develop
their portfolio
and produce a
final piece in
lesson time – a
mini mock
Students will work on a Portrait project creating a
portfolio of mixed media work in the style of
various artists. As work progresses it will become
more individualised to play to students strengths
and develop independent learners.
Techniques from
printing to
stencilling. The
focal point people.
Introduction to marking criteria.
Working through the AO1-AO4
Students will work on a natural project creating
a portfolio of mixed media work in the style of
various artists. As work progresses it will
become more individualised to play to students
strengths and develop independent learners.
AO4 will be a 10 hour times final piece
produced in lesson time
End of term – proposed mock exam – 10 hour
final piece
Year 11
Portraits
Project
AO1
Research Tasks
Unit 1Portraits
Development
Experimentations
A02 & AO3
Unit 3
Portraits
Development
experimentation
A02 & AO3
Unit 3Exprimentation
A02 & AO3
Unit 3
Portraits
Development
Experimentation
A02 & AO3
Unit 3
Portfolio development and
final piece
Unit 4
Work skills/Money and Finance/Safe road skills and attitudes
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Alternatives to paid work
Year 11
Money matters for career
planning
Managing your own money
Managing money matters
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Summer
Term
Support with money matters
Searching for a job
National and global money
matters
Applying for a job
Planning an enterprise activity
Running an enterprise activity
Preparing for an interview
Preparing or a safe journey
Interview skills
Maintaining own and other’s
safety in relation to vehicles.