SPRING TERM CURRICULUM YEAR 8
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MATHS
SCIENCE
PAGS
Media Texts
Revisit POS & FOS
Dialogue
Unseen Prose & Poetry
Speeches
Guided Reading based on selected texts.
Civil Rights
Literacy Objectives 2’
Diverse Texts – ‘Bridge to GCSE’
Discursive and Analytical Writing
Language and essay structure
Comparing novels
Reading – non-fiction texts such as Travel Writing, Biography
and current affairs
Character creation
Poetry – from other Cultures
CE Practice Papers
Kate Alexander/Tim Lewis
 Sequences Functions and Graphs
 Place value calculations and checking
 Transformations and Coordinates
 Processing and Representing data, Interpreting and
discussing results
 Equations, Formulae and Expressions
 Securing level 6 and 7, introducing 8
 Past papers and preparation for Scholarships/CE
Angela Box
 Food & digestion
 Breathing
 Respiration
 Health & disease
 Reproduction
 Chemical preparation of gases
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HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
FRENCH
Energy – sources/ types of/ changes & changers
Angela Alsop
 Henry V/Agincourt/Joan of Arc
 The Wars of the Roses. Civil War and change of monarch
 The Battle of Bosworth Field
 Richard III
 Women in Medieval Society
 ESSAY & EVIDENCE
Kate Alexander
 Economic sectors
 Relationship between sectors and development
 Case Study of Car Industry in Derbyshire
 Problems and benefits of industry to areas
 Conflicts of land use.
 Management of different environments
 Effects of environmental management on people and places
Anthony O’Callaghan
Revision of Year 7 material
Vocab topic: Food and drink (revision), travel, clothes
Oral presentation about Free time
ENCORE TRICOLORE 2 (UNITS 5 & 6)
C.E. past paper practice in all skills
Grammar :
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LATIN
Il faut + infinitive
Boire
some irregular past tenses and passé composé with etre
etre present tense (revision)
Emma Harvey
 C.E. LATIN PREP BOOK 2 + CE PAST PAPERS
 Assessment : C.E. Past paper (level 2 or 3)
 Translation: practice from above
 C.E. vocab revision (level 1 & 2)
 Grammar : pronouns, irregular verbs, future tense (cont)
 Non Linguistic Topics: Daily life & selected mythology stories
Emma Harvey
ART
MUSIC
ICT
SKULL
P.E/GAMES
Self-Image
 Working from observation of other artists to create images
that reflect ideas of themselves
 Learning about ideas, methods and approaches used by
other artists
 Opportunity to combine traditional and digital media
 They will use A4 sketch pads
 Artists to study: Frida Kahlo, Marc Chagall, Gleynis Barton
(ceramics), Van Gogh, Frederick Leighton, Michael J Brown
Kate Alexander
 Popular Music. The 1960s and the music of The Beatles.
Who were the Fab Four? Who wrote their music? Learn to
play one of their songs
 Keyboard Family – the history of the keyboard family.
 Music Theory – on-going
 Keyboard skills – on-going
Carolyn Holleyman
 Developing web pages for particular audiences.
 Creating shapes with computer programs
 The start of computing
 The world wide web and its structure
Anthony O’Callaghan
 Keep on Learning
 PUBLIC SERVICES IN BRITAIN TODAY
 Moral dilemmas
 Religion – Hinduism/Sikhism
 Higher Order Thinking Skills
Mark Hammond/Angela Box
 Volleyball
 Netball
 Hockey
 Rugby