Year 7 Transition to Year 8 Knowledge Organiser

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.”

Kofi Annan

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Introduction

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IntroductionInstructions For Use

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Self-Tracking Sheet

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English Page 8-12Maths Page 13-15Science Page 16-19History Page 20-24Geography Page 25-28Spanish Page 29-32Computing Page 33-35Art Page 36-39

At Alsop High School, we know that if you build effective revision strategies from the outset, this will help you become a more effective student and help you with in the future. This is based on evidence, so we know that if you do it well, it will work. In this knowledge organiser is all the key knowledge you need for each subject to help you prepare for when you come back to school in year 8. There are exact facts, dates, events, characters, concepts and precise definitions that we need you to remember for each subject. We know that using the Look Cover Check Write technique is the best way to do this. We recommend that you choose two subjects and follow the guidance outlined on pages 1- 5 for 20-25 minutes per subject each day. If you do this regularly covering all of the points in the Knowledge Organiser for each subject, you will be more than ready for year 8 Good luck!

How to use the Knowledge Organiser – Instructions for use

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At Alsop High School we know that this is best when using the look-cover- write-check technique. When this is done in regular small chunks, it is one of the best ways you can learn relevant knowledge over time. What to doWe have provided a timetable with this knowledge organiser so you can really prepare for joining us in September successfully! You have been given an exercise book with this knowledge organiser to follow the steps outlined below.

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Open the exercise book. Count five lines up from the bottom of the page.Now draw a line across the page from edge to edge with a ruler.

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Write the date and the title at the top of the page.Underline this then with your ruler.

Using a ruler look carefully at up to four points. These are numbered clearly on each page. Read each point carefully and re read them if you need to. Don’t rush, take your time and try your hardest to remember the points word for word

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Now write down the points in your exercise book as you have remembered them. If you cannot remember all of them, write as much as you can.You must write them exactly as they appear in the knowledge organiser.

Now cover your knowledge organiser with the self-quizzing cover sheet provided in this pack so you can’t see the points. Don’t peak!

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Now check what you have written. Is it correct? What have you missed out? Spelt incorrectly?Check your writing word for word. With a green pen, draw a tick above each correct word.

Underline the mistakes.Now write your corrections clearly in the margin or above the word.

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Self Quizzing Tracking Sheet

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What a good one looks like! Don’t worry if you have lots of corrections. Go back to the same points again and repeat. The more you do this the more the information will stick.

Checking is the most important part of this process. We would expect to see lots of corrections in green pen. This means that you have done prep well and are learning from your mistakes.

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Each time you complete a self -quiz task in your exercise book, record the date, subject and score so you can track your performance each week in each subject.

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English

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8Overview Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning 1836

Robert Browning was writing in very beginning of the Victorian Era, an incredibly significant literary period for a number of reasons. It was a period of intense change and development; the Industrial Revolution meant that there was intense growth of the cities, the development of machinery left many men unemployed and therefore a spike in poverty rates which led to an increase in the levels of crime. This period also saw a great change in the belief systems of its citizens. Society before this had been governed by a stringent set of moral values, many of which originated in the teaching of the Church. Scientific advancements in this period, including Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, had many in society questioning their belief in the teachings of the Bible and therefore the morals by which they led their life.

Poets like Robert Browning are important to study because, writing at the beginning of the era, we are allowed to see the merging of two very different literary movements and styles. Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ has elements of the past Romantic movement in his description of nature and the storm at the opening of the poem, and the innocence with which Porphyria is initially described. We can also clearly see the Victorian influence later in this poem with his references to sexuality and the glimpse he gives us into the mind of a psychopathic killer. Whilst early Victorian readers would have been shocked and outraged at the behaviour of both Porphyria and her lover, as the Era goes on, readers began to desire shocking tales of crime which dealt with the mind of the criminal.

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Overview Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning 1836

Robert Browning was writing in very beginning of the Victorian Era, an incredibly significant literary period for a number of reasons. It was a period of intense change and development; the Industrial Revolution meant that there was intense growth of the cities, the development of machinery left many men unemployed and therefore a spike in poverty rates which led to an increase in the levels of crime. This period also saw a great change in the belief systems of its citizens. Society before this had been governed by a stringent set of moral values, many of which originated in the teaching of the Church. Scientific advancements in this period, including Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, had many in society questioning their belief in the teachings of the Bible and therefore the morals by which they led their life.

Poets like Robert Browning are important to study because, writing at the beginning of the era, we are allowed to see the merging of two very different literary movements and styles. Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ has elements of the past Romantic movement in his description of nature and the storm at the opening of the poem, and the innocence with which Porphyria is initially described. We can also clearly see the Victorian influence later in this poem with his references to sexuality and the glimpse he gives us into the mind of a psychopathic killer. Whilst early Victorian readers would have been shocked and outraged at the behaviour of both Porphyria and her lover, as the Era goes on, readers began to desire shocking tales of crime which dealt with the mind of the criminal.

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The only voice we hear throughout the poem, our only insight into what happens, is through Porphyria’s Lover. We feel for him and trust him in the opening of the poem when he ‘listened with a heart fit to break’ and describes Porphyria as being able to ‘shut out the cold and the storm’. We can see how much he loves her and wants her to be with him, however, as the poem progresses, we begin to develop a distrust for the speaker as his controlling and manipulative nature reveals itself to the reader. As we experience the volta in the poem, the speaker is turned from a poor, love-sick man into a deranged killer. Browning has given a voice here to the delusional thoughts of a mad man, that can be seen clearly when he states that by killing Porphyria, he has granted her ‘one wish. Robert Browning is known for his use of the dramatic monologue form, and in particular known for using this form to give an insight into the mind of a deranged character.

While we have established that the narrator of the poem is unreliable, it appears that he gives us an insight into why he killed Porphyria. Victorian society is known for its very rigid class divide between the rich and the poor, making it socially unacceptable for the classes to mix. We have learned through her name, and the fact that Porphyria’s pride vanity was preventing her from fully committing to the speaker, that they were of different classes; her being rich and he being poor. The speaker believed that Porphyria wanted to be with him forever but couldn’t because society could not and would not accept their relationship. In killing her, the delusional speaker seems to believe that he is granting Porphyria’s wish and allowing them to be together forever, regardless of society’s opinions, removing all notion of class. This is where we really begin to mistrust the speaker as we can see, through his use of language such as ‘pure and good’ and his actions as as he ‘propped her head up as before’ like a doll, his desire to control her was his motivation for killing her.Browning’s poem is a shocking, engaging and highly informative look into the darkness of the Victorian Era with themes such as violence, control and power, sin and love. The poem gives us insight into the direction literature was moving at the beginning of this era and prepares us for further study of the Gothic and sinister texts of the time period.

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mathsMaths

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1 p× p× p The answer is p3 not 3 p If p=2, then p3=2x2x2=8, not 2x3=6

2 p+ p+ p The answer is 3p not p3 If p=2, then 2+2+2=6, not 23=83 Expand To expand a bracket, multiply each term in the bracket by the expression

outside the bracket. 3 (m+7 )=3 x+21

4 Factorise The reverse of expanding.Factorising is writing an expression as a product of terms by ‘taking out’ a common factor.

6 x−15=3(2 x−5), where 3 is the common factor.

5 Solve To find the answer/value of something

Use inverse operations on both sides of the equation (balancing method) until you find the value for the letter.

Solve 2 x−3=7

Add 3 on both sides2 x=10

Divide by 2 on both sidesx=5

6 Inverse Opposite The inverse of addition is subtraction.The inverse of multiplication is division.

7 Substitution Replace letters with numbers.Be careful of 5 x2. You need to square first, then multiply by 5.

a=3 , b=2∧c=5. Find:1. 2a=2×3=6 2. 3a−2b=3×3−2×2=53. 7b2−5=7×22−5=23

8.Inequality

An inequality says that two values are not equal.

a≠b means that a is not equal to b.

7≠3

x≠09.

Inequality symbolsx>2 means x is greater than 2x<3 means x is less than 3x≥1 means x is greater than or equal to 1x≤6means x is less than or equal to 6

State the integers that satisfy −2<x≤ 4.

-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

10.Inequalities on a Number Line

Inequalities can be shown on a number line.

Open circles are used for numbers that are less than or greater than (¿∨¿)

Closed circles are used for numbers that are less than or equal or greater than or equal (≤∨≥)

x≥0

x<2

−5≤x<4

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11. Percentage

Number of parts per 100.31%means 31

10012. Finding 10%

To find 10%, divide by 10 10% of £36 = 36÷10=£3.60

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Finding 1% To find 1%, divide by 100 1% of £8 = 8÷100 = £0.08

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Percentage Change DifferenceOriginal

×100%A games console is bought for £200 and sold

for £250. % change = 50200

×100=25%

15. Fractions to Decimals

Divide the numerator by the denominator using the bus stop method. 38=3÷8=0.375

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Decimals to Fractions Write as a fraction over 10, 100 or 1000 and simplify.0.36= 36

100= 925

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Percentages to Decimals Divide by 100 8%=8÷100=0.08

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Decimals to Percentages Multiply by 100 0.4=0.4×100%=40%

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Fractions to Percentages Percentage is just a fraction out of 100. Make the denominator 100 using equivalent fractions.When the denominator doesn’t go in to 100, use a calculator and multiply the fraction by 100.

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917×100=52.9%

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Percentages to Fractions Percentage is just a fraction out of 100.Write the percentage over 100 and simplify. 14%= 14

100= 750

11. Percentage

Number of parts per 100.31%means 31

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Finding 10% To find 10%, divide by 10 10% of £36 = 36÷10=£3.60

13. Finding 1%

To find 1%, divide by 100 1% of £8 = 8÷100 = £0.08

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Percentage Change DifferenceOriginal

×100%A games console is bought for £200 and sold for £250.

% change = 50200

×100=25%

15. Fractions to Decimals

Divide the numerator by the denominator using the bus stop method. 38=3÷8=0.375

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Decimals to Fractions Write as a fraction over 10, 100 or 1000 and simplify.0.36= 36

100= 925

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Percentages to Decimals Divide by 100 8%=8÷100=0.08

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Decimals to Percentages Multiply by 100 0.4=0.4×100%=40%

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Big Questions?How do organisms vary?How are organisms adapted to their habitat?How are new humans made?You will have already come across the fact that animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and environments can change and pose dangers. Living things produce offspring of the same kind but are not identical to their parents. A life cycle shows the different stages in an organism’s life from birth to old ageOverview E very human in the world is different-even identical twins differ in some ways. You will find out how these differences are caused and how variation can help organisms survive. You will find out how humans reproduction takes place and look at changes to your body during adolescence. You will discover how new life is created.

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There is variation between individuals of the same species. Some variation is inherited, some is caused by the environment and some is a combination. Variation between individuals is important for the survival of a species, helping it to avoid extinction in an always changing environment. Inherited characteristics are the result of genetic information, in the form of sections of DNA called genes, being transferred from parents to offspring during reproduction.Imagine your family and friends, you will picture people who look different to each other, this means they have different characteristics. This is called variation.Inherited variations are characteristics inherited from parents. Environmental variations are variations caused by the surroundings. Many variations are affected by both inherited and environmental factors. If you look around your classroom and your friends you will see that some students share the same eye colour but very few are exactly the same height, this is because there are different types of variation. A characteristic that can take any value is a continuous variation. A characteristic that can only have certain values is a discontinuous variation. Continuous variations can be plotted on histograms. Discontinuous variations can be plotted on bar charts.

If you think about the animal a cheetah it is the fastest land animal. This makes it a very successful predator and enables it to survive and adapt. How organisms adapt to environmental changes is call adaptation and competition can lead to adaptation. Think about yourself and your friends. Do you think some people are still children or are they adults. Everyone is at different stages of their emotional and physical development. The time when you change from a child to an adult is known as adolescence. Adolescence is the time where you change from a child to an adult over a period of time. Puberty is the physical changes that occur during adolescence.

Reproduction is one of the characteristic life processes of living organisms, in which they produce new individuals of the same kind. Usually offspring vary and are similar but not identical to their parents and one another. Humans and other animals can reproduce when a female individual and a male individual come together to produce offspring. The offspring of humans and other mammals grow inside the mother until they are developed enough to

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be born, while the offspring of birds, reptiles and fish grow inside eggs until they are developed enough to hatch.

Males and females look different because their bodies have to perform different jobs. Their reproductive systems need to work together to produce a baby Puberty is the physical changes that occur during adolescence.Boys and girls undergo some different and some similar physical changes during puberty. The male reproductive system is made of the testes, sperm duct, glands, penis and scrotum.The female reproductive system is made of the oviduct, ovary, uterus, cervix, and vagina and each part of the reproductive system has a different function.

Sperm cells are much smaller than egg cells.

During adolescence your body becomes able to create a baby with someone of the opposite sex. Sexual intercourse between men and women can lead to fertilisation. Fertilisation is where the nucleus of a sperm cell joins with the nucleus of an egg cell. Small children often say that they grow inside their mummy’s tummy. A baby actually develops in the uterus, A human foetus develops into a baby in 9 months. There are four stages on birth: pre-labour, dilation, birth, and delivery of the placenta. The placenta allows substances to be exchanged between the mother and the baby. The umbilical cord connects the placenta to the baby.

The menstrual cycle prepares the female for pregnancy and stops if the egg is fertilised by a sperm. The developing foetus relies on the mother to provide it with oxygen and nutrients, to remove waste and protect it against harmful substances. During puberty a girl will start her periods, and this is known as menstruation. The menstrual cycle lasts about 28 days and is a female cycle during puberty. Ovulation (the release of an egg) happens on the 14th day of the cycle. The lining of the womb thickens during the menstrual cycle, so a fertilised egg can attach to it. If the egg is unfertilised the lining of the womb will shed as a period, this is the first day of the menstrual cycle.

1.Species. a group of similar organisms who are able to breed

together to produce fertile offspring2. Discontinuous

variation – where differences in characteristics between living things can only be grouped into categories.

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3. Testicles – organ where sperm and testosterone are produced. 4. Implantation – the process whereby the embryo attaches to the lining of the uterus.

5. Adaptation a characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.

6. Puberty the physical changes that take place during adolescence.

7. Foetus – the developing baby during pregnancy, from 8 weeks after fertilisation.

8. Menstruation – the loss of the uterus lining during the menstrual cycle.

Section A – Variation Section B – Types of variation Section C – Adaptations Section D – Puberty

Inherited variations

9. Characteristics inherited from parents.10.Many variations are affected by both inherited and environmental factors.

12.A characteristic that can take any value is a continuous variation.13.Continuous variations can be plotted on histograms.14.A characteristic that can only have certain values is a discontinuous variation.15.Discontinuous variations can be plotted on bar charts.

16.Organisms adapt to environmental changes.17.Competition can lead to adaptation.

18.Adolescence is the time where you change from a child to an adult.19.Puberty is the physical changes that occur during adolescence20.Boys and girls undergo some different and some similar physical changes during puberty.

Section E – Reproductive systems Section F – Implantation Section G – Gestation Section H – Menstruation

21.The male reproductive system is made of the testes, sperm duct, glands, penis and scrotum.22.The female reproductive system is made of the oviduct, ovary, uterus, cervix, and vagina.

23.Sperm cells are much smaller than egg cells.24.Sexual intercourse between men and women can lead to fertilisation.25.Fertilisation is where the nucleus of a sperm cell joins with the nucleus of an egg cell.

26.A human foetus develops into a baby in 9 months,27.There are four stages on birth: pre-labour, dilation, birth, and delivery of the placenta.28.The placenta allows substances to be exchanged between the mother and the baby.29.The umbilical cord connects the placenta to the baby.

30.The menstrual cycle lasts about 28 days. 31.Ovulation (the release of an egg) happens on the 14th day of the cycle.32.The lining of the womb thickens during the menstrual cycle, so a fertilised egg can attach to it.33.If the egg is unfertilised the lining of the womb will shed as a period, this is the first day of the menstrual cycle.

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History

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Overview -The Tudors

The Tudors were the Royal Family who ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603. In their 118-year England was transformed and experienced new religious ideas, overseas exploration and empire building (colonisation). The first Tudor King was Henry VII, followed by his son, Henry VIII, who was famous for marrying six times and beheading two of his wives. His son, Edward VI ruled after him, succeeded by his daughters Mary I and Elizabeth I.

Henry VIII

Henry became king in 1509 when he was 18. As a young king he was athletic, very intelligent, and multi-lingual. Henry had a love for sports including tennis, jousting, and hunting. Henry was fluent in French, Latin, and Spanish. He had many horses, dogs, and falcons. He loved music and poetry. However, Henry VIII is most remembered for his wives, he married 6 times and he was a strong leader who was determined to get what he wanted. Henry was desperate to keep the Tudor name going and have a son. Henry’s problems included; not having a son to continue the Tudor dynasty, limited influence over England as much of the power lay in the hands of Catholic Rome, he was short of cash, and many people ‘Protestants’ divided the population because they wanted to break away from Rome.

The Reformation

In 1534 the Pope would not let Henry divorce his Spanish wife Catherine of Aragon so Henry decided to defy the Pope and the Catholic Church. He anointed (made) himself Head of the Church of England and England subsequently became a predominantly Protestant country. Henry granted himself a divorce in order to marry Anne Boleyn who he hoped would give him the son he so desperately desired. Henry VIII encouraged the people of England to reject Catholicism, change their beliefs and become Protestants. The English Protestants believed that the Protestant Church was less corrupt than Roman Catholicism and followed the teachings of the Bible more strictly. In reality, setting up the Church of England also helped Henry VIII acquire a great deal of wealth. The Catholic Church was the richest organisation in England, by shutting down churches and monasteries “Dissolution of the Monasteries” and selling their property, jewels and surrounding land, Henry could make lots of money. With Henry making himself head of the Protestant Church it gave him greater power as the people of England were no longer obliged to take orders from the Pope or the Catholic Church. He had rid the country of Papal power and this change ‘reform’ is known as the Reformation.

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Edward VIOn the 28th January 1547 King Henry VIII died. He had named his youngest child Edward as the next King of England, even though he was only nine years old! Edward faced several problems in his short time as King of England. He was too young to rule alone, the country was running out of money and people were unhappy with many of the religious changes his father had made. Edward was too young to rule alone and was given a ‘protector’ Robert Seymour. Edward supported his father’s changes and continued to shut down the monasteries and taking their money and land. In 1553 he fell ill with a fever and was soon dying. He would only be King for six years. But when Edward died he asked that his distant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, and not his older sister Mary, become the next Queen.

Mary IMary was the eldest daughter of Henry Vlll from his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Mary came to the throne after contesting the 9 day reign of the uncrowned Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry’s sister, Mary Tudor. Mary I was a devout (passionate) Catholic. When she came to the throne she vowed to return England to Roman Catholicism. Mary reunited the English Church with Rome and in 1555 banned English translations of the Bible. She is known as Bloody Mary because of the numbers of people who were executed for not having Catholic beliefs. Mary died in the early morning of 17 November 1558. She was childless.

Elizabeth IThe final Tudor monarch was Elizabeth I. At the beginning of her reign, Elizabeth faced many problems. Some of them were internal (inside the country) while others were external (threats from foreign countries). Many of these problems were to do with the fact that as she was a woman, people across Europe foolishly believed that England under Elizabeth was weak country and an easy target to manipulate. This is because in 1558 she faced a variety of different problems; an economic downturn, a religious divide, she had no husband therefore no child to succeed her and the mighty Catholic Spain plotted to invade England to remove her as Queen and replace her with her Catholic cousin, Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Elizabeth and her followers gallantly fought off the Spanish and she resolved religious tensions by following a 'middle way’, allowing Catholics and Puritans (strict Protestants) to keep their private beliefs as long as they went to the Church of England in public. However, she hunted, tortured and executed Catholic priests who came into England to undermine her power. By the end of her reign, the Church of England was safe, there was less chance of religious conflict and she defeated the Spanish Armada - a vast fleet of warships from the world super power. England became a world power and allowed Sir Walter Raleigh to set up England’s first overseas colony, Virginia in America. When she died in 1603 without an heir, James VI of Scotland, the son of her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, whom Elizabeth ordered to be executed, inherited the throne.

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Overview - Weather and Climate

What is the difference between weather and climate? Is there a difference? The answer simply, is yes! Weather is the day-to-day and hour-by-hour changes in

the atmosphere; it can change many times during the day. Weather is the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility and wind.

We talk about changes in the weather in terms of the near future: ‘How hot is it right now?’ ‘What will it be like today?’ and ‘Will it rain this week?’

Climate is the long-term weather of a place using measurements taken over at least 30 year; it is the average weather of a place. Climate information includes

the statistical weather information that tells is about the normal weather, as well as the range of weather extremes for a location.

We talk about climate change in terms of years, decades, centuries, even millions of years. Weather can be measured using many pieces of equipment such as a

thermometer (hot or cold), anemometer (wind speed), rain gauge (mm), sunshine order (hours of sunshine), hygrometer (humidity) and barometer (air pressure).

Climate graphs show the average weather of a place showing rainfall in mm for each month as blue bars and a red line showing the average temperature.

The line is drawn over the top of the bars so that comparisons can be made. The UK has a distinct temperate climate with mild and moist weather, while much of

Southern Europe has a dry and warm summer and mild winters, and mountainous areas such as the Alps and Pyrenees have an Alpine climate with very cold

winters and mild summers. Within the UK the climate is also different with the south being warmer, and the west being wetter. The UK has plenty of rain and

this is due to three different types of rainfall, convectional, relief and frontal. Extreme weather or extreme climate events include unexpected, unusual, severe

or unseasonal weather in an area.

The UK has experienced many extreme weather events, such as the Beast from the East (from Russia) in 2018, which brought severe cold weather snow to the

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29Overview Mis pasatiempos (My hobbies)

‘My hobbies’ gives students the opportunity to express what they do in the free time in Spanish. In this unit you will study hobbies, sports, weather and technology vocabulary. In order to do this successfully you will need to study some aspects of Spanish grammar which include the present tense of regular and some irregular verbs, adjectival agreement and word order.

Spanish grammar: Present tense with regular verbs. There are 3 verbs in Spanish. Ar/ER and IR verbs. To form the present tense, remove the infinitive ending ar/er/ir and add the relevant ending. The main verbs taught in this unit are, Bailar (to dance),chatear (to chat),descansar (to rest), escuchar ( to listen),leer (to read)

Verb conjugation: Present Tense-ar verbs -er verbs -ir verbs

Yo (I) -o -o -oTú (you) -as -es -esEl/ella (he,she) -a -es -esNosotros/ nosotras (we) -amos -emos -imos

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Overview Mis pasatiempos (My hobbies)

‘My hobbies’ gives students the opportunity to express what they do in the free time in Spanish. In this unit you will study hobbies, sports, weather and technology vocabulary. In order to do this successfully you will need to study some aspects of Spanish grammar which include the present tense of regular and some irregular verbs, adjectival agreement and word order.

Spanish grammar: Present tense with regular verbs. There are 3 verbs in Spanish. Ar/ER and IR verbs. To form the present tense, remove the infinitive ending ar/er/ir and add the relevant ending. The main verbs taught in this unit are, Bailar (to dance),chatear (to chat),descansar (to rest), escuchar ( to listen),leer (to read)

Verb conjugation: Present Tense-ar verbs -er verbs -ir verbs

Yo (I) -o -o -oTú (you) -as -es -esEl/ella (he,she) -a -es -esNosotros/ nosotras (we) -amos -emos -imos

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Narrative Understanding Computers

This is a theoretical unit covering the basic principles of computer architecture.

You do have previous knowledge of this unit as it was taught within the first term of year 7. We will be revisiting the main topics; however, tasks will be changed so it is not exactly how they answered previously.

The focus in this unit is how you distinguish between hardware and software; you will be asked to name at least five pieces of software and hardware in their home. You will identify input, output and storage devices and suggest appropriate input and output devices for a given scenario.

You have previously covered theory on input and output in previous lessons and will continue to look at the Input-Process-Output sequence and the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle through practical activities. You should start to get an understanding of what happens at the process stage.

You will be given the task of drawing a block diagram of the main components of a computer: input, processor, output and storage and distinguish between main memory and permanent storage devices.

You will state the typical capacities, strengths and weaknesses of different storage devices

Finally, you will look at a brief history of communication devices, how new technologies and applications are emerging and the pace of change.

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Narrative ‘Collage and 3D’

Historical context: We have been to learn about new knowledge on artists, art movements, techniques, and materials. Our artists research is the backbone to our lessons and as young artists it’s important to understand the historical and cultural backgrounds that influenced and inspired the creation of famous artworks with this in mind this term has been about, The Fauves and the Expressionists. Fauvism was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century around 1905 and roughly around the same time the was a group of artists known as the Expressionists. To explain Fauvism and The Expressionists I want you to think of Fauve artists as artists who painted with extreme and distinctive colours often unnatural and surprizing with thicker brushstrokes. Expressionism on the other hand was about the artists expressing their inner feelings with bold colours and expressive brushstrokes. In 1905 a number of artists exhibited their paintings at the Salon d’ Automne in Paris. It was here many visitors were shocked by the new type of art. An art critic that evening gave the group the name ‘The Fauves’, which in English means ‘Wild Beasts’. The greatest outrage that exhibition came from a painting by the artist, Henri Matisse called ‘Women with a hat’ The paintings choice of colours became a talking point.

Artists links: The Fauve artist we studied is Henri Matisse, a French artist whose work demonstrates how the Fauves developed their style. Matisse was eager to get away from realism were artists tried to produce work that looked as much like real people or places. He experimented with lots of different techniques and styles. He developed a style using a strange combination of bright colours and energetic brushwork in his paintings. He loved to paint on canvas which he did most of his life, but he also experimented with other techniques such as Cubism and Pointillism. In his old age after being diagnosed with cancer he began to work with painted paper and scissors. He was really interested in patterns and from this came his bold collages. Matisse said he was never truly expressing himself until he started to work in this medium.

Materials, techniques, and processes: This topic is about exploring and creating work that is influenced by the Fauves and Henri Matisse. You will develop work by looking at the artists paintings and collages. Your work will be predominantly a mix of some painting and Collage. A Collage is a piece of art that incorporates a variety of materials. It often involves gluing and sticking things like paper and found objects. The technique is to use contrasting or complementary colours to create the Fauve style.

Historical context: The way we create better things and a better future is by studying the past. Our artist this term is a contemporary artist who is very much living and working today but was greatly influenced by his peers and past famous artist such as Pablo Picasso, John Piper and the Modernism movement from 1930. Contemporary art is said to be the art that was developed after the 1960’s and is still emerging today. Contemporary art is one created by artists who are still living and working today.

Artists links: Mark Hearld is a British artist who creates art and design work from paintings, prints, collages to 3D designed saleable objects. Mark was born in York in 1974. He studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and then went on to the Royal college to study an MA in Natural History Illustration. Since his childhood days he has always had a love for nature and animals, and this is still his greatest passions today which is clearly reflected in his work. However, Mark Hearld also has a passion for the found or bought object and he gets great pleasure in finding and bring home objects to display. This part of his personality encouraged him to create saleable objects by designing and creating textile pieces and 3D objects. He wanted the public to be able to own something other than an expensive painting or a print. Hence his beautiful bird mobiles that have inspired our lessons on 3D birds.

Materials, techniques, and processes: This topic is about exploring and creating 3 dimensional objects. Mark Hearld admired artists that had created objects and applied their skills to several things other than just painting and drawing. The definition of 3D artwork is solid rather than flat because it can be measured in three different ways, usually height, length, and width. It can be creating or making a form out of clay, paper, plastic, wood or other materials or products found.

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