Years 9 & 10 Subject Enrichment Activities
Subject
Business
Enrichment Activities
Year 10:
 Keep up to date with Business news
 Read the news regularly. Suggested websites: BCC News and Guardian
 Organise visits/work experience with local Businesses
 Go to work with a parent for one day
 Follow Twitter/Facebook feeds of different companies, not just technology companies
 Learn key terms from the glossary - make revision cards
 Read Business publications e.g. Business Review
Child Development /
Health
Years 9 & 10:
 Look at the selection of magazines in the library/shops
 Watch 'one born every minute'
 Record and watch any panorama program that is dealing with people/social services/health
services/ NHS/community based projects
 Look for local news stories regarding the NHS/hospital/GP surgeries
 Babysitting!
Dance
Years 9 & 10:
 Consider audition for Suffolk Youth Dance and various companies at DanceEast (visit their
website for details)
 View live professional dance works if possible at either Bury Theatre Royal, Norwich
Theatre Royal, Arts Theatre Cambridge or where possible in London
 If a follower on Twitter/Facebook, follow major organisations such as Dance UK and major
dance companies such as The Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theatre
 Borrow books/DVDs available from the library such as 50 Contemporary Choreographers
 View professional works on YouTube and write a review (see Mrs Frost for advice on how
to do this)
Drama
Years 9 & 10:
 Visit local theatres such as the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, and the New Wolsey
Theatre in Ipswich – both of these venues provide student discounts on tickets and have an
engaging range of programming for young people and family audiences
 Watch National Theatre broadcasts at the cinema
 Take part in extra-curricular opportunities such as Suffolk Young People’s Theatre (an
annual free summer school), the Theatre Royal’s Youth Theatre and summer school, and
local stage schools
 Use YouTube to explore clips of theatre performances such as extracts from New York’s
Tony Awards ceremonies, as well as designated channels: Shakespeare’s Globe, the
National Theatre, Broadway.com, Playbill.com etc.
 Develop an awareness of Shakespeare stories by watching the Animates Tales and movie
adaptations of his works
Economics
Year 10:
 Keep abreast with the economy and government policies by visiting the following websites
on a regular basis:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/economy/
- http://economicsonline.co.uk/Economic_update.html
- https://www.gov.uk/government/policies
Engineering
Year 9:
 How Stuff is made: You Tube
 Technology Student
 Mr D&T
 3D Printing
 Disassemble something and find out how it works
 Learn how to program (Hello World as a start)
 Find a problem and solve it
 Do some modelling to learn how to use tools and manipulate components
 Mend something
 Make something work better
 Find out how your computer works at a basic machine level
Year 10:
 Learn how to program a computer
 Learn how to use google sketch up
 Learn how to use 2D design
 National Space Centre
 Design Museum
 Build a Stirling Engine
 Find a problem and solve it
 Build a Go Cart
 Disassemble something and find out how it works and then put it back together so it still
works
 Do some modelling to learn how to use tools and manipulate components
 Find out how your computer works at a basic machine level
 Mend something
 Make something work better
English
Year 9:
 Read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts
 Complete stretch and challenge activities provided by your English teacher
 Take part in extra-curricular activities: debating, reading group, Middle school mentoring
Year 10:
 Attend Poetry Club in A20 every Wednesday at 1.20
 Read fiction of good quality on a regular basis. Mr Mount is happy to provide suggestions
 Visit websites of local theatres and try to watch a serious play (not musicals!) six times a
year
Geography
Years 9 & 10:
 Listen to Radio 4 or watch BBC news to keep up with geographical issues in the news
 Read several novels/non-fiction from the Geography subject reading list (ask your teacher)
 Read 'Geography Review' (ask your teacher)
 Watch Geography-based documentaries throughout the year and make notes/discuss the
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content with your teachers (BBC and NatGeo are good for this). Particularly focus on
Population, Natural Disasters, Coasts and Tourism
Research topic areas you are interested in on 'How Stuff Works' online (associated with
Discovery Channel). You can also download their podcasts about issues/topics we have
been studying in class (Stuff you should know)
Watch a series on Youtube called 'How the Earth was made' - every episode is relevant and
gives you an in depth understanding of Plate Tectonics
Get your camera out! Use trips to the coast, countryside or forest areas to capture the
'geography' you see around you. Think about how the physical processes you have learnt
about in class have shaped the scenery you see around you
Talk to other people about places they have visited and discuss their experiences with them
- you can learn a lot for the knowledge people have brought back with them for travel.
Alternatively, watch travel programs on TV, such as Ben Fogle's 'New Lives in the Wild' to
learn about different environments around the world
Year 9:
 Graphics: David McCauley
 Design a web site
 Technology Student
 3D Printing
 Find a problem and solve it
 Create a logo from a single unbroken line
 Mr D & T
Year 10:
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History
Go to The Design Museum
Create a logo from a single unbroken line
Victoria and Albert Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum
Design a web site
Year 9:
 Regularly read a history magazine, especially articles linked to topics being studied. The
learning centre keeps the BBC History Magazine and there are copies of History Today and
Modern History Review in the History department
 Watch one of the great TV history documentary series; Simon Schama’s ‘A History of
Britain’ or ‘The World at War’, for example
 Read Ernst Gombrich’s ‘A Little History of the World’
 Attend the debating club on a Friday. Being able to marshal an argument, especially under
pressure, is a key skill in History
Year 10:
 Regularly read a history magazine, especially articles linked to topics being studied. The
learning centre keeps the BBC History Magazine and there are copies of History Today and
Modern History Review in the History department.
 Watch a topic specific TV documentary series, such as ‘The World at War’ or ‘The Cold
War’.
 Ask your history teacher for a chapter or two from a book by a historian writing about
something you are studying. Be prepared to discuss it at length afterwards!
 Attend the debating club on a Friday. Being able to marshal an argument, especially under
pressure, is a key skill in History.
Home Economics
Years 9 & 10:
 Watching as many food/cookery programmes as possible and using them as discussion
points
 Reading anything food related---magazines/store recipe leaflets or magazines
 'Reading' cookery books and showing an interest in different celebrity cooks
 Cooking for pleasure-just having a 'go' at a different recipe
 Entertaining or helping with the family meals
 Wandering round shops that sell cookery/kitchen gadgets to get a feel for new products
 Keeping their own recipe folder/book
Maths
Years 9 & 10:
 Read general Mathematical books such as:
Alex’s Adventures in Numberland – Alex Bellos
The History of Pi – Petr Beckmann
How Long is a Piece of String? – Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
Why Do Buses Come in Threes? – Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh
How to Cut a Cake – Ian Stewart
 Investigate Mathematical websites such as:
NRICH http://nrich.maths.org
or
MangaHigh https://www.mangahigh.com
 Complete mathematical puzzles in newspapers, Sudoku etc. Chris Maslanka offers up a
regular dose of mathematical puzzles in The Guardian.
 Play Countdown
Media Studies
Year 10:
 Visit the Media Guardian website http://www.theguardian.com/media and explore areas
of interest
 Experiment with post-production technique by watching video tutorials for Photoshop and/
or Final Cut Express. If you have access to the software you can also practice these
techniques with your own production work
 Conduct wider research into your Year 11 exam topic. For the 2015 exam the topic is
television news; for the 2016 exam the topic is science fiction film.
Modern Foreign
Languages
Years 9 & 10:
 Take part in educational visit to a target language speaking country
 Watch films subtitled in English or the appropriate language
 Listen to music in the target language and pick up firstly the gist and then more details
 Use readers or magazines available from class teacher or the Learning Centre
 Be creative with the language adapting vocabulary and structures to different contexts and
prepare a presentation
 Develop your own dictionary around topics that interest you
 Log-on to MFL websites
 Look at an article in a new language and see if you can work out main points for forming it.
 Research cultural or historical facts about the countries whose language you are studying
Music
Years 9 & 10:
 Follow the BBC proms over the summer, either live at the Albert Hall if possible or by
watching / listening to BBC TV and radio coverage, paying particular attention to
commentaries and programme notes
 Attend local concerts and gigs in a variety of genres: Latitude festival, Apex, Theatre Royal,
Milkmaid folk club, Hunter Club
 Keep up with BBC 4's series of music documentaries on popular musicians (screened on
Saturday nights or available on youtube) - this one is particularly good for those with an
interest in music technology and production
 Ensure regular participation in music making both in and out of school (they can see me for
advice)
 Listen to Radio 2 in the evenings - they broadcast a huge variety of shows on notable
musicians and their contribution to their genre
 Work their way through the Associated Board Music Theory in Practice books (available
in Balaams or online), we run a theory club on Wednesday lunchtimes for support with this
Product Design
Year 9:
 Focus on Resistant Materials (program at school)
 3D Printing, investigate
 Find a problem and solve it
 Do some modelling to learn how to use tools and manipulate components
 Design and make
 Cut some wood with a saw in a straight line at right angles to an edge
 Find out and make some wood joints
Year 10:
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Design Museum
3D Printing, investigate
Find a problem and solve it
Do some modelling to learn how to use tools and manipulate components
Design and make
Measure and cut to a line, learn to use wood tools with confidence
Remote control something
Build a better skateboard deck
Psychology
Year 10:
 Re-visit the difference between practical 'implications' and 'applications' in Psychology and
make flash cards with examples for each topic area as you progress through the GCSE
course
 Read 'Psychology Review' (either on-line or ask your teacher) and find relevant articles
throughout the year which support the topics you are/or will be studying
 Look out for Psychology-based documentaries throughout the year and discuss the content
with your parents or teachers (BBC Four is great for this)
Religious Studies /
Philosophy and Ethics
Year 9:
 Use the BBC website to explore different world religions, their beliefs, festivals etc.
 Explore The Guardian online for recent articles on current ethical and moral issues such as
euthanasia, genetic engineering, same-sex marriage etc.
 Visit a place of worship and look at the religious imagery and symbolism being used. Use
this as a way of researching how different religions, and denominations within a religion,
worship in different ways. Where does the word 'worship' come from and what does it
mean?
 Go along to the Debating Club on a Friday after school to develop skills in constructing
arguments and counter arguments
Year 10:
 Watch 'The Big Questions' Sunday 10am BBC1
 Explore The Guardian online for recent articles on current ethical and moral issues such as
euthanasia, genetic engineering, same-sex marriage etc.
 Read a copy of a philosophical book such as Julian Baggini's The Pig That Wants to be Eaten
 Attend Mr Gershon’s Philosophy Club
Science
Years 9 & 10:
 Watch Science based documentaries on TV. Our top picks include:
- Chemistry: a volatile history
- Brian Cox Science programmes
- Frozen planet
- Life
 Visit the Science Museum in London-an amazing place to explore all areas of Science
throughout history. The Natural History Museum is also a great place to visit
 Read articles from the “Sci/Environment” section on the BBC news site
 Read the New Scientist or Scientific American magazines. We have subscriptions to these in
the school library.
Sociology
Year 10:
 Design flash cards on each of the classic sociological theories such as Marxism,
Functionalism, Postmodernism and Feminism and use sociological evidence in the form of
concepts, studies and contemporary examples in order to bring these theories to life!
 Read 'Sociology Review' (either on-line or ask your teacher) and find relevant articles
throughout the year which support the topics you are/or will be studying
 Look out for relevant documentaries throughout the year and discuss the content with
your parents or teachers (Channel Four is great for this)