Grace International School
Long-term Plan 2014-2015
1st Semester – Term 1 (8 weeks)
August – October 2014
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Year 8
Subject
English
Maths
Week 1
Week 2
GENRE - MYSTERY
GENRE - MYSTERY
Number and Algebra 1:
Multiplying and dividing negative numbers
HCF and LCM
Powers and roots
Prime factors
Sequences
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
Statistics 1:
Probability
Probability scales
Mutually exclusive events
Experimental probability
Classification Keys and Ecological Concepts
Number 2:
Fractions and
decimals
Adding and
subtracting fractions
Multiplying and
dividing fractions
8A Food & Digestion
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Create a front
cover for your art
book
Still Life & Cubism,
Creator GodDesigner Ref
Dutch Artists,
Picasso
Still Life & Cubism,
Creator GodDesigner Ref
Dutch Artists,
Picasso
Still Life & Cubism,
Creator GodDesigner Ref
Dutch Artists,
Picasso
Pattern:
Ref Escher,
Faberge
Pattern
Ref Escher,
Faberge
Containers Ref
Kate Malone
Containers Ref
Kate Malone
Barbarian Kingdoms
Return to
Christianity
Fall of Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
IMPROVISATION:
INTRODUCTION
NO CLASS
The World We Live In
Geography
Sport
PE
MUSIC
NO CLASS
Ecosystems
Swimming
Unit 1
Volleyball: Basic
skills
ICT
Religious Studies
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
Garden of Eden
History
Performing Arts
GENRE - MYSTERY
Geometry and Measures 1:
Alternate and corresponding angles
Interior and exterior angles of polygons
Geometric proof
Geometric properties of quadrilaterals
Constructions
Laboratory Safety
Science
Art/Design
GENRE - MYSTERY
Volleyball: Setting
Volleyball: Bumping
Volleyball: Game
rules
Tee Ball: Batting and
strategy
Tee Ball: Standing on
base and strategy
Tee Ball: Game
INTRODUCTION
POWERPOINT STORY BOARDS
PUBLIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Hinduism
Expressions of faith: Introduction, Holy books, Ramayana, temples, worship, stages in life, festivals
Module 1
Famille et Domicile
French
Introduction
Bangla
Traditional dodge
ball: Rules and game
plan
Unit 1:
Mon album de
famille
Familymembers
Unit 2:
Au boulot
Professions
Adjectives
o comparative and superlative, adjective + definite article
Anondo path 16-19 pages
Unit 3:
Où habitent-ils ?
Where people live
Unit 5:
Revision
Un Journée dans la
&
vie de…
Assessment
Daily routine
Writing paragraph; Pronouns, demonstrative: singular, plural
personal: polite forms: singular, plural,NUmbers31-60
Unit 4:
Quel temps fait-il ?
The weather
Module 2
Temps Libre…
Unit 1:
Le weekend dernier
The perfect tense
with « avoir »
Grace International School
Long-term Plan 2014-2015
1st Semester – Term 2 (9 weeks)
October –December 2014
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Year 8
Subject
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
English
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
Silent Movie
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
Silent Movie
GENRE – HORROR
(FRANKENSTEIN)
Silent Movie
Maths
Numbers 2
continued
Percentages
Percentage increase
and decrease
Real-life problems
Science
Art/Design
History
Performing Arts
ICT
Religious Studies
French
Bangla
Algebra 2:
Algebraic shorthand
Like terms
Expanding brackets and factorising
Using algebra with shapes
Index notation with algebra
8B Respiration
8C Microbes & Disease
EXPRESSION
Rehearsal
POETRY
CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION
ACTING 1
ACTING 2
ACTING 3
Rehearsal
Rehearsal
rehearsal
Basketball:
Passing and
shooting
Basketball: Rules
and shooting
Week 16
Week 17
Different Traditions: Christmas
Stories
POETRY
Number 3:
Powers of 10
Large numbers
Estimations
Working with decimals
Efficient calculations
Multiplying and dividing decimals
8E Atoms & Elements
Grace
Group Portraits Ref Jesus Welcomes the
Children, Renoir
Grace
Self- Image, Masks
Ref Theatre Costume
Anglo-Saxon England
Charlemagne’s
Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Norman
Conquests
CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION
ACTING 4
Rehearsal
NO CLASS
CHARACTER 1
FINAL REHEARSAL
Rehearsal
Ecosystems
Basketball:
Dribbling and
control
Week 15
Algebra 3:
Linear functions
Finding a function from inputs and
outputs
Graphs
Gradient
Real-life graphs
8D Ecological Relationships
The Fall
Landscapes ref Impressionists,
Deserts, Wilderness
Rise of Islam & The Arab World
Return to
Christianity
POETRY
Geometry and Measures 2:
The circle
Circumference
Area of a circle
Surface area and volume of prisms
Imperial units
The Fall
Narrative Painting, Photojournalism ref Wright,
Delacroix, National Geographic
Geography
Sport
PE
POETRY
CHARACTER
2
Rocks & Soils
Unit 2: Invasion games
Basketball, Badminton and Football
Basketball:
Handball:
Handball: Control
Dribbling and
Throwing and
and Center position
control
catching
Handball: Throwing and catching
Badminton:
Serving and
Rules
PUBLIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS Continued
Hinduism
Beliefs and teaching about meaning and purpose: God, deities, life after death,
karma, creation and science, funerals
PUBLISHING ON THE WEB
Hinduism
Ethics and values: moral decisions, human relationships, prejudice,
global issues, life and death issues, other faiths
Module 2
Temps Libre
Module 3
Les Sorties
Unit 2:
Hiersoir
The perfect tense –
irregular verbs
Unit 3:
On regarde la télé
Describing what
you saw or read
Unit 4:
Tu es sorti(e) ?
The perfect tense
with « etre »
Verbs
o zero verbs, particularly in present forms of verb to be,
negative of zero verb, use of আছin present, past and future
Unit 5:
Unit 1:
Unit 2:
Le weekend…
Revision
Tuveuxsortir ?
Désolé(e),
Unit 3:
Talking about past
&
Making and
mais…
Les vêtements
Christmas Unit
events using the
Assessment
responding to
Making excuses.
Clothes
perfect tense
invitations.
Modal verbs.
Writing paragraph(My childhood):
past simple e.g. করলাম, past continuous e.g. কররছলাম,present perfect e.g. ককররছpast perfect e.g. ককররছলামpast habitual e.g.
করতামsimple future e.g. কররবা, কররব
Grace International School
Long-term Plan 2014-2015
Year 8
Subject
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
COMEDY UNIT
COMEDY UNIT
COMEDY UNIT
COMEDY UNIT
2ndSemester – Term 3 (11 weeks)
January –March 2015
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
COMEDY UNIT
COMEDY UNIT
8F Compounds & Mixtures
Art/Design
Grace
Sculpture, Take a Seat, Art
for a Public Space ref Palm
Sunday- throne of grace
Grace
Change your Style ref the
cross- jewellery history &
design
History
Performing Arts
Geography
Sport
PE
Norman
Conquests
French
Bangla
8H The Rock Cycle
Knights,
Soldiers & War
Project; Living in a
Castle/Town/Village
Plate Tectonics
Football and Ultimate Frisbee
Badminton:
Serving
Badminton:
Doubles and
Serving
Badminton:
Games
Whiffle Ball:
Batting and
Pitching
Verbs
o present perfect continuous:
Revision
&
Assessment
Unit 1: Bon
appétit
Food and
drinks
Algebra 5:
Expand and simplify
Solving equations by trial and
improvement
Constructing equations
Problems with graphs
Real-life graphs
Change of subject
8J Magnets & Electromagnets
Eden Restored
Buildings & Landscape, pattern & texture in
buildings- God’s Mansion ref Alhambra, Gaudi
Living in a Castle/Town/Village
Project
The Crusades
SHAKESPEARE
PERFORMANCE
Plate Tectonics
Football
Whiffle Ball: Catching and Throwing
DATA: Use
and Misuse
Buddhism
Expressions of faith: Buddha; Tipitaka; worship practices; Sangha; Vihara; festivals
Unit 4: Faire
les magasins
Shopping
Adjectives
Eden
Restored
Week 27
Week 28
Speaking + Listening Task
Cricket: Bowling and Batting
INFORMATION: Reliability, Validity and Bias
Module 3
Les Sorties
Unit 5: La cité
de l’Europe
Comparatives
& superlatives
8I Heating & Cooling
Thermodynamics
Eden Restored
Dreams, Animation- what does
heaven look like ref Kush
SHAKESPEARE
ICT
Religious Studies
Kings, Nobles
& Peasants
Hundred Years’ War
Statistics 2:
Statistical surveys
Stem-and-leaf diagrams
Interpreting graphs and diagrams
Scatter graphs
Analysing data
Field Trips
Science
Algebra 4:
Solving equations
Equations involving negative
numbers
Equations with unknown on both
sides
Substituting into expressions
Substituting into formulae
8G Rocks & Weathering
Geometry and Measures 3:
Congruent shapes
Transformations
Enlargements
Planes of symmetry
Shape and ratio
Week 26
CREATIVE
CREATIVE
WRITING –
WRITING –
FILED TRIP
FILED TRIP
Number 4:
Fractions
Adding and subtracting fractions
Order of operations
Multiplying decimals
Dividing decimals
English
Maths
Week 25
Module 4
Manger et Boire…
Unit 2: Le
Unit 3: On prépare
repas français
une fête
Meals
Planning a party
o past perfect continuous:
DATA: Use and Misuse
Buddhism
Expressions of faith: Buddha; Tipitaka; worship
practices; Sangha; Vihara; festivals
Module 4
Manger et Boire
Unit 4: Au
Unit 5: Au
marché
restaurant
Shopping for
Ordering in a
food
restaurant
Revision
&
Assessment
Module 5
Voyages et Vacances
Unit 1: Les Pays
Countries and
nationalities
o use of (howwa)to express the passive
o use of (kotha) to express supposed to (kotha
chilo)
Grace International School
Long-term Plan 2014-2015
Year 8
English
Maths
Science
Art/Design
History
Week 29
Week 30
DETECTIVE
FICTION
DETECTIVE
FICTION
Solving problems:
Number and measures
Using algebra, graphs and diagrams
to solve problems
Logic and proof
Proportion
Ratio
8K Light
Week 31
SATS PREP
Geometry and Measures 4:
Plans and elevations
Scale drawings
Finding the mid-point of a line
segment
Map scales
Loci & Bearings
8L Sound & Hearing
Eden Restored
Drawing & Painting Movement- Celebration ref
Degas, Nieman
The Crusades
The Black Death
The Rise of
Russians
Performing Arts
GREEK THEATRE
Geography
Sport
PE
Drainage Basins & Rivers
ICT
Religious
Studies
French
Bangla
FICTION
Eden
Restored
Explorers &
Sailors/Voyages
of Discovery
Unit 3:Athletics
Cricket: Rules and Scoring
DATA: Use
and Misuse
SYSTEMS: Integrating Applications to
Find Solutions
FICTION
Week 36
Week 37
DETECTIVE
FICTION –
WRITING OWN
STORY
DETECTIVE FICTION –
WRITING OWN
STORY
Statistics 3:
Collecting data for frequency tables
Assumed mean and working with statistics
Drawing frequency diagrams
Comparing data
Experimental and theoretical probability
7B Reproduction
End of Year Assessments – Exam Week
Subject
2ndSemester – Term 4 (10 weeks)
April –June 2015
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35
DETECTIVE
DETECTIVE
SATS PREP
Eden Restored
Journeys-Eden to Eternal Life
ref Maps
Explorers & Sailors/Voyages of
Discovery
GREEK
THEATRE
NO CLASS
Week 38
REVIEW
SATS
Review
SATs
Science Research Project
Year Review
Eden Restored
Symbolism in Art: Summary Piece ref Aboriginal Art
Artists of Italy
GREEK
THEATRE
Ideas and Inventions
PERFORMANCE
NO CLASS
Drainage Basins & Rivers
Swimming and Football
Football: Four a side
SYSTEMS: Integrating Applications to Find Solutions
Buddhism
Beliefs and teachings about meaning and purpose: life,
suffering, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Wheel of Life,
enlightenment, different groups of Buddhists
Buddhism
Ethics and values: moral decisions, human rights, animal rights and
vegetarianism, environmental issues, careers and employment, war and
conflict
Module 5
Voyages et Vacances
Module 6
Les Copains
Unit 2 : On part
Making travel
plans
Unit 3:
Au centre de
vacances
Describingaholiday
centre
Reading comprehension
Unit 4:
Destination
Sénégal
Describing a
holiday
Unit 5:
Voyager en
ligne
Finding
information
online
Unit 1:
La page des
copains
Describing
people using
adjectives
Unit 2 :
L’argent de
poche
Jobs and
money
Unit 3 :
La technofolie
ICT and
gadgets
Unit 4:
Présent, passé, futur
Using the three main
tenses together in a
text
reading letters and writing letters to friend
Review
Review