Year 7 Curriculum Map
Overall Gift – To develop the key attributes in becoming a successful Brightstowe student.
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5
Term
6
Growth mindset
– Risk-takers,
perseverant,
resilient,
confident,
positive
Fairy tales –
Brother’s
Grimm, Perrault,
Healthy – Diet,
exercise,
balanced
lifestyle
Team players –
Collaborative
learners, good
listeners,
motivators,
coaches
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
by William
Shakespeare
Key Focus
Beautiful
presentation Uniform, books,
spoken
Readers – A
passion for
reading
Independent –
Organised,
problemsolvers,
researchers
English
Brightstowe
values and
Brightstowe
experiences
Poetry –
selected comic
poems,
Jabberwocky
Mime and
Movement
Dracula
(various
abridged
versions)
Christmas
Two weeks with
the Queen ¬–
Morris
Gleitzman
Building
Tension and
Atmosphere
Characterisation
and Plot
(Gleitzman)
Script Writing
Fairy Tales
What are
numbers and
how do they
relate?
Working in the
laboratory,
Cells, tissues
and organisms
How do you
find the
unknown?
How do you
represent parts
and shares?
How do lines
and angles
relate to shape?
Cells, tissues
and
organisms,
Particles,
reactions and
separating
Identity:
Exploring our
beliefs and
the diversity
in our local
area.
Geology, Energy
and electricity
Energy and
electricity,
Forces 1 (forces
and speed)
What is a
function and
how do you
draw it?
Earth and
space,
Classifications
and food webs
Where on Earth
am I?
- Map skills
Tudor Britain:
How different
was Britain
compared to
today in 1500?
Drama
Maths
Science
Humanities
What is
History?
Shrek (media
text)
Eastern
Spirituality:
Eastern
religions
Performing a
script
(Midsummer
Night’s Dream)
What is data
and how do we
use it?
Classifications
and food webs,
drugs and
behaviour.
Your Planet
- What makes
our environment
unique?
‘No God, one
God or 33
million
gods? What is
worshipped in
Eastern
religions?’
‘Will our soul
be born
again? How
does the idea
of
reincarnation
affect the lives
of religious
believers?’
MFL
Spanish /
French
Basics for
surviving in
Spanish/French:
Greetings
Pronunciation
Numbers
Days and
months
Question words
How can we
speak about
school in
Spanish/
French?
Regular
verbs in the
How can we
speak about our
family, friends
and pets in
Spanish /
French?
How can we
speak about
where we live in
Spanish/
French?
Topics: City and
country. Use of
How can we
speak about
our hobbies
and interests in
Spanish/
French?
How can we
make plans in
Spanish/
French?
Topics:
Invitations.
Excuses.
Countries/flags/
colours
Project: Dia de
los muertos
present
tense
Personal
adjectives
Qualifiers
Foods
Project:
strange
foods from
around the
world
Topics: Irregular
present tense
verbs: tener and
ser.
Third person.
Appearance and
characteristics.
Project: exotic
animals.
“hay” and “no
hay”
Use of “estar”
Possessions
Ordinal numbers
Project:
Comparison of
living standards
between
England and
Latin America
Research about
Amazonia
PE
7 1 Boys
7 1 Girls
7 2 Boys
7 2 Girls
7 3 Mixed
Art
Music
DT
(Carousel)
How can we get
past
opponents?
How can our
positioning help
us create
space?
How can we
get into
scoring
positions?
How can we
transfer our
positional
skills so we
can get into
scoring
positions?
Rugby
Basketball
Netball
Conditional
tense.
Weather.
Project: Drama
Activity.
Project::
Research into
the daily
routine of a
Spanish/French
speaking
athlete/sports
person
What can we
use to outwit an
opponent?
What elements
of fitness are
required to
become a
successful
gymnast?
More
important –
batting or
bowling/fieldin
g?
Batting; what
can we do to
outwit our
opponents?
Fielding; how
as a team can
we restrict the
batting team
from scoring
rounders?
Football
Badminton
Cricket
Athletics
Basketball
Football
Gym
Rounders
Athletics
Basketball
Rugby
Badminton
Football
Cricket
Athletics
Basketball
Netball
Gym
Football
Rounders
Athletics
Fitness
Teambuilding
Unihoc/ boccia
Ultimate
Cricket
Athletics
Basic skills
Basic skills
Hundertwasser
Hundertwasser
Night and Day
Rhythm and
pulse
When to
dribble? When
to pass?
When to
dribble? When
to pass?
Topics:
irregular verbshacer/jugar/ir/
salir
Reflexive verbs
– first and third
person.
The time
Sports
vocabulary.
Snake painting,
Ceramics
planning
Form and
Instruments of
structure
the orchestra
Technology Learning Challenge
How can I
achieve a
personal best?
Ladders
Ladders
The input
process, digital
creativity
Collaboration
and learning,
web design
Food
Textiles
Product Design
Computer
Science/IT
Computer
safety
Machines and
computation
Binary,
instructions,
Lego and
mindstorm
Sequencing
scratch
Spreadsheets
modelling