Sundorne School & Sports College
Curriculum Overview 2014/14
ART
Year 7
Flying Fish
Flying Fish
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
4 part portrait
Self portrait / Escher
Clay work – Fishes /
Coil pot
Year 8
Piggy Bank
Christmas Card /
Through the Window
Aboriginal Art
Observation Task
Day of the Dead
Year 9
Green Man / Picasso
Green Man / Picasso
Day of the Dead
Graffiti
Summer B
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 10
Masks
Masks
Unit 2 Exam Unit
Unit 2 Exam Unit
Individual set target
Culture / Independent Artist Study
Green Man / Picasso
Green Man / Picasso
Graffiti
Year 11
Culture Unit 1
Culture Unit 1
Exam Unit
Exam Unit
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FOOD & NUTRITION
Autumn A
Year 7
Healthy Eating
Autumn B
Healthy Eating
Spring A
Healthy Eating
Spring B
Healthy Eating
Summer A
Healthy Eating
Summer B
Healthy Eating
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 8
Foods From Around
the World
Foods From Around
the World
Foods From Around
the World
Foods From Around
the World
Foods From Around
the World
Foods From Around
the World
Year 10
A521 Cultural Understanding
A521 Creativity
Health and Hygiene Assessment
A521 Designing & Making
A521 Critical Evaluation
Practical Skills
Year 9
Bread
Bread
Bread
Bread
Bread
Bread
Year 11
Controlled Assessment
Controlled Assessment
Sustainability and technical aspects of
designing and making
Sustainability and technical aspects of
designing and making
Revision
TEXTILES
Year 7
Needlecase
Needlecase
Apron
Apron
Apron
Apron
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 8
Sock Monkey
Sock Monkey
Sock Monkey
Pop Art Bag
Pop Art Bag
Pop Art Bag
Year 10
Techniques Booklet
Fashion Designers Research
Fabric Research
Techniques Booklet
Fashion Designers Research
Fabric Research
A571 Cultural Understanding &
Creativity
A571 Design
A571 Making
A571 Critical Evaluation
Year 9
Promotional Gonk
Promotional Gonk
Promotional Gonk
Mask
Mask
Mask
Year 11
A573 Designing
A573 Making
A573 Critical Evaluation
Revision A575
Revision A575
Revision A575
PRODUCT DESIGN
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Year 7
3D Frame
3D Frame
3D Frame
3D Frame
3D Frame
Summer B
Linkages – moving toy
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 8
Jewellery
Jewellery
Jewellery
Jewellery
Jewellery – recycling
products
Jewellery – recycling
products
Year 10
Designer Influences / theory to
support exam and CAT
Designer Influences / theory to
support exam and CAT
Designer Influences / theory to
support exam and CAT
Designer Influences / theory to
support exam and CAT
Batch Production
Preparation for Y11 CAT
Year 9
Automata
Automata
Automata
Automata
Pop-up greeting card
Pop-up greeting card
Year 11
CAT
CAT
CAT
Exam Preparation / revision
Exam Preparation / revision
Exam Preparation / revision
ENGLISH
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 7
a) Autobiography
b) Different Cultures
(Opening Worlds, Wow 366
or My Simple Little
Brother)
a) Non-fiction writing
(Rottweilers or alternative)
b) Advertising (S&L) –
presentational features
Year 8
a) Travel writing
(persuasive features)
b) Transcripts
(analysis/comparison
of body language)
a) Non-fiction writing
(Bullying)
b) Web pages
(comparison – PEEL)
a) Spoken Word / Accent &
Dialect
b) Introduction to
Shakespeare (mini-study)
a) Poetry – own and study
of effect on reader
b) Sports Journalism –
PEEL, commentary,
verbal/non-verbal features
a) Shakespeare
(Twelfth Night)
a Prose (Cosmic, Magnus
Powerhouse, Skellig)
b) narrative Writing and 99
Word Story
a) Exam preparation
b) Drama (Harry Potter,
Tyke Tyler)
a) Ballads (diary entry
/ analysis of structural
features)
b) Poetry (Nature)
(poetic language/
writer’s message)
a) Prose (Holes,
Underground to
Canada)
b) Exam Practice
a) Prose (Holes,
Underground to
Canada)
Year 10
Literature UNIT 3
Wilfred Owen poetry
S&L
Literature UNIT 3
Romeo & Juliet
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Literature Unit 1
Martyn Pig
Literature Unit 1
Of Mice & Men
Literature Unit 2
Poetry
Conflict or Relationships
UNIT 1 & 2 Exam revision
Year 9
a) Body Image (eye
witness account /
argumentative article)
b) Film (film review /
cinema trip)
a) Pre-20th century
prose (Sherlock
Holmes, Yellow
Wallpaper, A
Christmas Carol)
b) Newspaper articles
(presentational
features)
Shakespeare (The
Tempest)
a) Drama scripts (Our
Day Out, An Inspector
Calls)
b) Spoken Word /
Speaking & Listening
a) Prose (Stone Cold,
Animal Farm)
b) Exam practice
a) Persuasive Speeches
b) Poetry (The
Holocaust)
Year 11
Literature UNIT 3
Shakespeare & English Literature
Heritage
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Language Unit 3 part c
Spoken Language Study
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Language Unit 3 part b
Creative Writing
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Language Unit 3 part a
Of Mice & Men
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Controlled assessment catch-up /
improvement
Literature units 1 &2 revision
Language Unit 1 revision
Understanding/producing non-fiction
texts
ICT
Graphics
Year 8
Scratch
Spreadsheets
Information, reliability
& bias
3D Design
Summer A
Data Handling
e-safety & Hardware
Summer B
Spreadsheets
Graphics & Animation
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Year 7
Presentation – Virtual Tour
e-safety campaign
DTP and Scratch
Spring B
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 10
R002 – Websites
R002 – Websites
R001 – Exam preparation
R001 – Exam preparation
Release of exam specification
EXAM
Year 9
QR codes
Scratch & Python
Understanding
computer systems
UNIT 1
GCSE Preparation
spreadsheets
UNIT 1
GCSE Preparation
Databases
UNIT 1
GCSE preparation
Hardware/Software
Year 11
R003 – Spreadsheets
R003 – Spreadsheets
R006 – Digital Images
R006 – Digital Images
Release of exam specification resit
EXAM
BUSINESS STUDIES
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 10
Starting a business
marketing
finance
People in business
Operations management
Controlled assessment
Year 11
Growing as a business
Business organization
accounting
Operations management
Exam prep
exam
Year 10
film
TV
news
magazines
animation
Controlled assessment
Year 11
music
marketing
radio
Controlled assessment
Release of exam specification resit
EXAM
MEDIA (GCSE)
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
HUMANITIES
GEOGRAPHY
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Year 7
Restless Earth
Restless Earth
Exploring England
Kenya
Summer A
Summer B
People Everywhere
Making Connection
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 8
Extreme Weather
Rivers
Italy
Local Actions, Global
Effects
Australia
Fantastic Places
Year 10
Hostile World (Living with Natural
Hazards)
Hostile World (Living with Natural
Hazards)
Managing Places in the 21st Century
(Coasts)
Managing Places in the 21st Century
(Coasts)
Managing Places in the 21st Century
(Urban)
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
PREPARATION
Managing Places in the 21st Century
(Urban)
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
PREPARATION
Year 9
Can The Earth Cope?
Coasts
Tourism
Brazil
Japan
Sport or Fashion?
Year 11
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
Investigating the Shrinking World
(Tourism)
Investigating the Shrinking World
(Tourism)
Investigating the Shrinking World
(Tourism)
Exam preparation
Exam preparation
HISTORY
Year
Autumn
Spring
Summer
7
The Middle Ages (10661485):
The
Norman
Conquest; the Feudal System;
Castles;
Medieval
Life;
Medieval Towns; Medieval
Leisure; Religion and Power;
Medieval Church; Thomas
Becket; the Crusades.
The Middle Ages (10661485): Kingship; the Magna
Carta; the First Parliaments;
the
Black
Death;
the
Peasants’ Revolt; Medieval
warfare; the Battle of
Shrewsbury; the Hundred
Years’ War; the Life of a
Knight.
8
The Stuart Period (16031714): James I and the
Gunpowder
Plot;
Shakespeare; Causes of the
Civil War; the Civil War; the
Trial and Execution of
Charles I; Cromwell and the
Republic; Restoration; Plague
and Fire; the Glorious
Revolution.
Europe in the 20th Century:
Titanic
(Class
System);
Causes of World War One;
the Start of the War; Trench
Life; the Somme;
The
Russian
Revolution;
American Involvement; Final
months of World War One –
Remembrance
and
Memorials.
Peacekeeping Between the
Wars & the League of
Nations:
Armistice;
the
Treaty of Versailles; League
of Nations; the Manchurian
Crisis; the Abyssinian Crisis.
The Industrial Revolution
(1700-1900): Britain in
1750; Population and the
Census;
Ironbridge;
the
Factory System; Life in
Towns; Medicine & Public
Health; Crime & Punishment;
Leisure and Sport in the 19th
Century.
The Tudor Period (1851603):The Wars of the
Roses; Henry VII (Tudor);
Henry VIII and Six Wives;
Reformation and Divorce;
Edward
VI
and
Protestantism; Mary I and
Catholicism; the Problems of
Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of
Scots, the Spanish Armada;
Death of Elizabeth I.
Reform and Change (17801900):
The
French
Revolution
and
the
Napoleonic
Wars;
the
Abolition of Slavery; Political
Reform in the 19th Century;
the Role of Women and the
Suffragette Movement; the
British Empire.
Europe in the 20th Century:
Biography: Hitler; Fascism in
Europe; Depression and the
Nazis; Pre-War Jewish Life;
Fear and Propaganda; How
did the Nazis change the
Lives of Germans; Start of
World War Two; Dunkirk;
Battle of Britain/Blitz
Europe in the 20th Century:
Invasion of Soviet Union;
Einsatzgruppen;
Pearl
Harbour (USA & Japan);
Stalingrad; Air War in
Europe; D-Day; Fall of
Berlin/Division of Germany;
Wannsee Conference/Final
Solution; Holocaust
The Origins of World War
Two: Hitler Overturns the
Treaty
of
Versailles;
Rearmament; the Saar; the
Rhineland;
Anschluss;
Appeasement; Sudetenland;
Munich;
Invasion
of
Czechoslovakia; Poland;
Controlled
Assessment
Question 1 (BPAW)
Race Relations in the USA:
the End of World War Two;
Brown v. Topeka; Backlash;
the Montgomery Bus Boycott;
Little Rock, Arkansas; the Sitins; the Freedom Riders;
Martin Luther King and
Marches; Success of the Civil
Rights Movement.
The Origins of the Cold
War: 1945 and the End of
World War Two; Hiroshima
and Nagasaki; the Iron
Curtain; the Truman Doctrine
and the Marshall Plan; the
Berlin Crisis and Airlift; the
Arms Race; the Korean War;
the Hungarian Crisis; the
Space Race.
To be confirmed: either
Stalin’s
Dictatorship
or
Hitler’s Germany.
9
10
11
The Roaring Twenties:
Isolationism; the Economic
Boom; the Entertainment
Industry; Fads and Flappers;
the Red Scare; the Ku Klux
Klan;
prohibition
and
Gangsters; the Wall Street
Crash.
Controlled
Assessment
Question 2 (BPAW)
RE
Year 7
What is belief?
RQ1 Who am I?
RQ5 Where do I belong?
Year 8
By what authority?
RQ4 How should I lead
my life?
What is belief?
RQ1 Who am I?
RQ5 Where do I belong?
By what authority?
RQ4 How should I lead
my life?
Spring A
RQ9 What do people
believe about God?
Spring B
RQ13 Where do people’s
belief come from?
Summer A
The environment
RQ6 How should we relate
to others and the natural
world?
Summer B
The environment
RQ8 Has Science got all the
answers
Putting belief and
faith into practice
RQ2 How do people
express their beliefs
through worship and
celebration?
Putting belief and
faith into practice
RQ14 Why do people’s
belief and practice
differ?
Evil and suffering
RQ7 How do people
make sense of
hardship and
suffering?
Evil and suffering
RQ7 How do people
make sense of
hardship and
suffering?
Autumn A
Autumn B
Year 9
Code breaking
RQ10 How is belief
expressed through
symbols and actions?
Code breaking
RQ11 How do people
express their beliefs
about truth?
What happens when
we die?
RQ12 How do people
make sense of life and
death?
What happens when
we die?
RQ12 How do people
make sense of life and
death?
Prejudice
RQ3 Who is my
neighbor?
Prejudice
RQ3 Who is my
neighbor?
CHILD DEVELOPMENT (GCSE)
Year 10
Year 11
Autumn A
Parenthood
Autumn B
Pregnancy (research task)
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Diet, health and care of the child
Support for the parent and child
Development of the child
Development of the child
(Child Study)
Social and emotional development
Learning and play
(Child study)
Child study
Child study
Revision time for exam
Revision time for exam
LIFE SKILLS
Autumn
PSHE
Autumn
Citizenship
Spring
PSHE
Spring
Citizenship
Summer
PSHE
Summer
Citizenship
Year 7
All About Me
Year 8
Diversity
Year 9
Sex & Relationships
Fair Trade
Money
Law
Diversity / Sex &
Reationships
Charities and Old Age
Sex & Relationships /
Healthy Living
Poverty
Diversity
Sex & Relationships /
Healthy Lifestyle
Work & Money
Drugs / Career choices
Self Esteem / Careers
Human Rights &
Politics
Charities
Year 10
Family
Finance
Sex & Relationships
Law
Health
Helping the Community
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Finance
Year 11
Work
Conflict
Sex & Relationships
Politics
Healthy Lifestyles
Exam Preparation
MATHEMATICS
Year 7
Year 8
Unit 1 – Core skills
including decimals
Unit 2 – Measures and
Geometry – Area and
Perimeter
Unit 3 – Fractions
Unit 4 – Data
presentation
Unit 3 – Fractions
Unit 4 – Data
presentation
Unit 13 – Core skills
including BIDMAS
and rounding
Unit 14 - Probability
Unit 5 – Expressions
Unit 6 – Angles
Unit 17 –Percentages
Unit 18 – Volume
and surface area
Sequences
2D Construction
Coordinates and
Graphs
Decimals
Probability
Fractions
Spring B
Unit 7 – Sequences
Unit 19 – Quadratics
Unit 8 – Measures, metric Unit 20 – Inequalities
units, scales and time
Angle properties
3D Shapes
Linear equations
Summer A
Unit 9 – Algebra –
sequences into graphs
and coordinates
Unit 10 – Constructions
and 3D, plans elevations
and isometric drawing
Transformations
Percentages
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Unit 15 – Ratios
Unit 16 – Proof
Unit 21 – Indices
Unit 22 –
Trigonometry and
Pythagoras
Year 9
Whole Numbers
Angles
Properties of Number
Reading Scales
Summer B
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Unit 11 – Solving
equations
Unit 12 – Averages
including averages from
tables, missing data and
range
Unit 23 –
Transformations
Unit 24 – Complex
algebra
Year 10
Pythagoras
Application of percentages
Linear Graphs
Time Series
Ratio and Proportion
Perimeter and Area
Powers and Brackets
Compound Measures
Volume
Probability
Formulae
Angle Properties of Polygons
Scattergraphs and Correlation
Loci
Scale Factors
Area and Volume
Quadratic Graphs
Trial and Improvement
Linear Equations
Data collection
Data representation
Year 11
Equation of a Straight Line
Simultaneous Equations
Value for Money
Transformations
Trigonometry
Averages from Grouped Frequency
Tables
Revision for GCSE Exam
Revision for GCSE Exam
GCSE Exam
MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
FRENCH
Year 8
Family & Where You
Live
Free Time & Perfect
Tense
Going out and
shopping for clothes
Food & Drink
Year 9
FCSE : Holidays &
Travel
FCSE: Holidays &
Travel / Food & Drink
FCSE: Food & Drink
Summer A
Year 7
Personal ID
Family & Friends
“All About Me”
Extended writing
At Home
Telling the Time
About Town / Ordering
snacks
The Wider World
Daily Routine and School
Travel & Holidays
Summer B
Leisure Time and Holidays
Friends, Pocjket Money
and Future Plans
FCSE: Education &
Future Plans
Health
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Year 10
Intro
Personal Information
Grammar roundup
Leisure/ Holidays & Tourism
Leisure / Free Time
Leisure & Tourism
SPEAKING CONTROLLED
ASSESSMENT
Lifestyle / Health
Summer A
Lifestyle / Health
WRITING CONTROLLED
ASSESSMENT
Summer B
Lifestyle/Health
Improving writing
FCSE: Education &
Future Plans
Year 11
Work & Education
School
Work / Work Experience
Future Plans
Work & Education
SPEAKING CONTROLLED
ASSESSMENT
Where I Live
Environment
Celebrations
Money
Family & Marriage
WRITING CONTROLLED
ASSESSMENT
Writing Assessment
SPANISH
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 7
Introduction and Personal
Information
Family and Where You Live
School & Subjects / Time
and Snacks
Home and Daily Routine
Your Town / Directions /
Weather
Free Time and Future
Immediate Tense
Year 8
Introduction and
Personal Information
Family and Where You
Live
School & Subjects /
Time and Snacks
Home and Daily
Routine
Your Town /
Directions / Weather
Free Time and Future
Immediate Tense
Year 10
Autumn A
Autumn B
Intro to course
Personal information
Grammar roundup
Health & Lifestyle
Health & Lifestyle
Year 9
FCSE: Holidays &
Travel
FCSE: Holidays &
Travel / Food & Drink
FCSE: Food & Drink
FCSE: Educations and
future plans
FCSE: Educations and
future plans
Health
Year 11
Work and Education
School
Spring A
Health
Revision techniques.
Improving speaking.
SPEAKING CONTROLLED
ASSESSMENT
Work. Work Experience
Future Plans
Work and Education
Revision techniques.
Improving speaking.
SPEAKING CONTROLLED
ASSESSMENT
Spring B
Holidays
Leisure and Tourism
Where I live.
Environment
Summer A
Holidays and Free time
Writing Controlled Assessment
Summer B
Holiday and Free time
Revision Techniques
Improving Writing.
Writing Assessment
Celebrations
Money
Family and Marriage
Writing Controlled Assessment
Writing Assessment
PE
Autumn A
Year 7
Outwitting opponents
Invasion games
Autumn B
Accurate replication
Gymnastics / multi-skills
Spring A
Outwitting opponents
Net/wall games
Outdoor / adventurous
Leadership –
Outwitting opponents
Invasion games
Performing at maximum
levels
Athletics
Outwitting opponents
Net/wall games
Striking / fielding games
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 8
Outwitting opponents
Invasion games
Accurate replication
Gymnastics
Outwitting opponents
Net/wall games
Outwitting opponents
Invasion games &
Net/wall games
Outwitting opponents
Fitness / Leadership
Performing at maximum
levels
Athletics
Outwitting opponents
Net/wall games
Striking / fielding games
Year 9
Outwitting opponents
Invasion games
Accurate replication
Trampolining
Outwitting opponents
Net/wall games
Outwitting opponents
Invasion games
Outdoor / adventurous
orienteering / fitness
Performing at maximum
levels
Athletics
Outwitting opponents
Net/wall games
Striking / fielding games
PE (BTEC)
The BTEC PE course in delivered in 3 modules and these are completed in rotation over
the 2 years. The modules include: Practical Sport, Leadership Activities, Designing a
Personal Fitness Programme and Anatomy and Physiology.
PE (GCSE)
Autumn A
Year 10
3.1.1 The range of physical activities
and the different roles that the active
participant can choose from
Autumn B
3.1.1 The range of physical activities
and the different roles that the active
participant can choose from
Spring A
3.1.2 Linking physical activity with
diet, work and rest for personal health
and a balanced healthy lifestyle
3.1.2 Linking physical activity with
diet, work and rest for personal health
and a balanced healthy lifestyle
3.1.3 Making informed decisions
about getting involved in a lifetime of
healthy physical activities that suit
their needs
Coursework
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 11
3.1.3 Making informed decisions
about getting involved in a lifetime of
healthy physical activities that suit
their needs
3.1.3 Making informed decisions
about getting involved in a lifetime of
healthy physical activities that suit
their needs
Revision
Revision
Revision
The GCSE PE Course is delivered through both practical and theory lessons. The
practical course is tailored to the strengths of the students and they have an element of
choice. The theory elements are listed above.
PERFORMING ARTS
DRAMA
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 7
Introduction to Drama
skills at KS3
Through a variety of
workshops pupils will
explore simple practical
work and be introduced to
drama skills and
techniques.
Body language
Facial expressions
Focus
Control
Freeze frame
Sharing ideas
Team work
Year 8
Football disaster
In this unit pupils will
explore the Hillsborough
disaster.
Freeze frame, narration,
improvisation and role play.
Respond to stimuli such as
script and prop to help
develop performance.
Build on skill and
techniques learnt in
previous unit in Drama to
enhance their skills as a
performer.
Hard to swallow
In this unit pupils will use
the TIE play ‘Hard to
Swallow’ by Mark Wheeler
as a stimulus & look at the
issue of eating disorders.
Thought tracking, captions,
improvisation, mime and
role play. Gained knowledge
of genre, the use of space
and staging.
Respond to stimuli such as
script and prop to help
develop performance.
Build on skill and
techniques learnt in
previous unit in Drama to
enhance their skills as a
performer.
Year 9
DANCE (GCSE)
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 7
Introduction to Dance
at KS3
Year 8
Year 9
Intro to dance at KS3.
Students will explore the
six basic dance actions
and perform,
choreograph and
evaluate.
Warm up & cool down
Six basic dance actions
Movement memory
Choreograph
Performance skills
Michael Jackson
Using Michael Jackson’s
music videos as a
stimulus, pupils will
expand & develop on
basic dance knowledge
& key skills.
Swansong
This module allows students to use
the professional work Swansong by
Christopher Bruce as a starting point
to create their own choreography.
Transitions
Unison/Canon/Contact/Accumulation
Creative use of prop
Focus & facial expression to
communicate dance idea
Motif
Choreographic devices
Relationships
Formations
Dynamics
Performance skills
Year 10
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 11
MUSIC
Autumn A
Year 7
Bridging Unit
Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics,
Duration, Texture,
Silence, Attack and Decay,
Timbre
Graphic Scores
Notation
Rhythm
Autumn B
Elements of Sound
How the Elements of
Sound are used in the
creation of music
Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics,
Duration, Texture,
Silence, Attack and Decay,
Timbre
Graphic Scores
How vibration is linked
to pitch
Beat & Rhythm
Notes of the treble stave
Spring A
Spring B
Arranging Music
Arrangement of music
and how music can be
used and developed.
Identify the mood,
instrumentation, tempo
and style as features of
musical arrangements,
arranging chords,
evaluate and discuss the
merits of an arrangement
Swing low, sweet chariot
The Underground
Railroad
Gamelan
Performing &
Composing
Performing and
composing techniques of
the Gamelan as used in
Java and Bali
Year 8
Musical Patterns
Exploring patterns in
music through singing
and playing
Pentatonic scales and
their use in Pacific rim
music
Musical sequences,
ascending and
descending
Walking bass
Improvising over a
walking bass
Basic minimalist
compositional techniques
Drums & Rhythms
Aurally recognise and
appreciate
instrumental &
rhythmic
characteristics of
certain World Music
Developing rhythmic skill
and awareness,
percussion techniques,
individual and group
compositional skills, self
appraisal, project
development and
presentation skills
Reggae & Calypso
Year 9
Theme and Variation
Developing Musical
Ideas Composition and
Listening
The Elements of Music
Varying Melodies
Ground Bass
Major/Minor
Sequence
Ornamentation
Film Music
Music and The Media
Composition
Atmosphere and Mood
Story Board
Cue Sheet
Leitmotif
Adverts/Jingles
Soundtrack
Calypso
Reggae
Art/dance
Vocal Styles
Historical Context
Elements of Pop Music
Performance Project,
Performances and ICT
Cover Songs
Popular Songs
Song Structure
Music Technology
Digital Effects
Pop Group/Artist
Research and
Presentation
Popular Song
The Music Industry
The Beatles
Listening, appraising
and performance
Historical context since
1960
Develop an
understanding of their
songs through listening,
Elements of Pop Music
Continued
Performance Project,
Performances and ICT
Cover Songs
Popular Songs
Song Structure
Music Technology
Listening, performing
Geography, culture and
background to the
Gamelan
Cyclic 8 beat pattern
Performing and
composing in a Gamelan
style
Summer A
Summer B
The Orchestra
Exploring Programme
Music
Strings, Brass
Woodwind, Percussion
Conducting
Timbre
Tuned and Untuned
Percussion
Instrument Research
Story Telling
Folk Music
Exploring Folk Music
Performance and
Listening
Sea Shanties
British Folk Music
Airs/Jigs/Reels
Folk Songs of the UK
Group Performances
appraising and
performance, play a
Beatles song with
particular notice to
chords and riffs,
including chord
sequences and primary
chords
Class performance for
recording
Musical Cycles
Composition and
Notation
Melody Writing
Q & A Phrases
Binary Ternary
Rondo
Pentatonic
Performing Music
Performing and
Analysing popular
music
Pop music styles
Riffs
Chord Progressions
Vocal Techniques
Digital Effects
Pop Group/Artist
Research and
Presentation
Popular Song
The Music Industry
The Blues
Exploring
Improvisation
Performance
12 Bar Blues – Chords
Blues Scale
Improvisation
Chord Vamps
Jazz and Blues Songs
Musicals
Exploring Shows and
Songs from the Stage
Performance and
Composition
Performance and
Analysis of songs and
music from Musicals
Composition
Overture
Autumn
A
Autumn
B
Spring A
Year 10
UNIT 1 – Performing (Controlled
Assessment)
Solo and Group performances
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
Area of Study 1 – Music in Wales
Welsh Songs – Art, Folk, Cerdd Dant and
Pop
Welsh Instrumental Music
CELTIC CONNECTIONS
UNIT 2 – Composing (Controlled
Assessment)
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
Area of Study 2 – Music for Stage and
Screen
E) OPERA
F) BALLET
G) MUSICALS
H) FILM AND TV
Spring B
Summer
A
Summer
B
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
Year 11
UNIT 2 – Composing (Controlled Assessment)
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
Area of Study 2 – Music for Stage and Screen
A) OPERA
B) BALLET
C) MUSICALS
D) FILM AND TV
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
UNIT 1 – Performing (Controlled Assessment) –
Area of Study 3 – Music Evolution
 Impressionism;
 Serialism;
 Minimalism;
 Experimental music;
 Aleatoric music;
 Popular Music (jazz, rock and blues);
 Fusion.
PERFORMANCE EXAM (MARCH)
Area of Study 3 – Music Evolution
 Impressionism;
 Serialism;
 Minimalism;
 Experimental music;
 Aleatoric music;
 Popular Music (jazz,
rock and blues);
 Fusion.
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
UNIT 3 – Appraising (External Assessment)
Area of Study 4: Musical Forms and Devices
All Areas of Study
Western Classical Tradition
Popular Music (Jazz, Rock and Blues)
Listening, performing and composing tasks.
APPRAISING EXAM (MAY/JUNE)
Area of Study 1 – Music in Wales
Welsh Songs – Art, Folk, Cerdd Dant and
Pop
Welsh Instrumental Music
CELTIC CONNECTIONS
All Areas of Study
UNIT 3 – Appraising (External Assessment)
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PSYCHOLOGY (GCSE)
Autumn A
Year 10
Research methods/Sex and Gender
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Memory
Attachment
Obedience
Atypical behaviour
Research methods
Year 11
Research methods/Criminal
behaviour
Perception / Cognitive development
Non-verbal communication
The Self
Revision
Revision
Research methods will be taught throughout the course with specific units at the
beginning of the Years 10 and 11 and the end of Year 10 dependent on pupil need.
SCIENCE
Year 7
Year 8
Autumn A
Lab Safety
Particles
Solutions
Light & Sound
Food & Digestion
Autumn B
Energy
Electricity
Cells
Reproduction
Acids & Alkalis
Magnets
Heating & Cooling
Spring A
Spring B
Chemical Reactions
Variation & Classification
Summer A
Environment
Forces
Summer B
Space
Respiration
Microbes & Disease
Atoms, Elements,
Compounds &
Mixtures
Ecology
Rocks
Year 9
Sets 1&2 start GCSE
Science (sets 3&4
follow as below)
BIOLOGY - New
Technology e.g.
Biotechnology
BIOLOGY Turning
Points e.g. Antibiotics
BIOLOGY Detection e.g.
DNA fingerprinting
CHEMISTRY - New
Technology e.g.
Nanoparticles
BIOLOGY Turning
Points e.g. Periodic
Table
CHEMISTRY Detection
e.g. Court forensics
PHYSICS - New
Technology e.g. Waves
BIOLOGY Turning
Points e.g. Universe
PHYSICS - Detection
e.g. Alien Life
BIOLOGY
Autumn A
Year 10
B1.1 Keeping healthy
B1.2 Nerves and hormones
Autumn B
B1.3 The use and abuse of drugs
B1.4 Interdependence and adaptation
Spring A
B1.5 Energy and biomass in food
chains
Spring B
B1.7 Genetic variation and its control
B1.8 Evolution
Revision of course
Revision and terminal exams
Summer A
Summer B
Year 11
B2.1 Cells and simple cell transport
B2.2 Tissues, organs and organ
systems
B2.3 Photosynthesis
B2.4 Organisms and their
environment
B2.5 Proteins – their functions and
uses
B2.6 Aerobic and anaerobic
respiration
B2.7 Cell division and inheritance
B2.8 Speciation
Revision and terminal exams
**
CHEMISTRY
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
Spring B
Summer A
Summer B
Year 10
C1.1 The fundamental ideas in
chemistry
C1.2 Limestone and building materials
C1.3 Metals and their uses
C1.4 Crude oil and fuels
C1.5 Other useful substances from
crude oil
C1.6 Plant oils and their uses
C1.7 Changes in the Earth and its
atmosphere
Revision of course
Revision and terminal exams
Year 11
C2.1 Structure and bonding
C2.2 How structure influences the
properties and uses of substances
C2.3 Atomic structure, analysis and
quantitative chemistry
C2.4 Rates of reaction
C2.5 Exothermic and endothermic
reactions
C2.6 Acids, bases and salts
C2.7 Electrolysis
Revision and terminal exams
**
PHYSICS
Year 10
P1.1 The transfer of energy by heating
processes and the factors that affect
the rate at which that energy is
transferred
P1.2 Energy and efficiency
P1.3 The usefulness of electrical
appliances
P1.4 Methods we use to generate
electricity
Year 11
P2.1 Forces and their effects
Spring B
P1.5 The use of waves for
communication and to provide
evidence that the universe is
Expanding
Summer A
Summer B
Revision of course
Revision and terminal exams
P2.5 What happens when radioactive
substances decay, and the uses and
dangers of their emissions
P2.6 Nuclear fission and nuclear
fusion
Revision and terminal exams
Autumn A
Autumn B
Spring A
P2.2 The kinetic energy of objects
speeding up or slowing down
P2.3 Currents in electrical circuits
P2.4 Using mains electricity safely and
the power of electrical appliances
SEPARATE SCIENCE- AS ABOVE PLUS THE FOLLOWING
Pupils following this route start all GCSE Science courses one year early at the start of
year 9
Autumn A
Autumn B
Biology
B3.1 Movement of
molecules in and out of
cells
B3.2 Transport systems
in plants and animals
Spring A
B3.3 Homeostasis
Spring B
B3.4 Humans and their
environment
Summer A
Revision and terminal
exams
**
Summer B
Chemistry
C3.1 The periodic table
C3.2 Water
Physics
P3.1 Medical
applications of physics
C3.3 Calculating and
explaining energy
change
C3.4 Further analysis
and quantitative
chemistry
C3.5 The production of
ammonia
C3.6 Alcohols, carboxylic
acids and esters
Revision and terminal
exams
**
P3.2 Using physics to
make things work
P3.3 Keeping things
moving
P3.3 Keeping things
moving continued
Revision and terminal
exams
**