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YEAR 10: CURRICULUM OVERVIEW (Nov-Dec 2016) 1

Subject Topics to be covered

Key Learning

Pre-19th Century Fiction (Either ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ or ‘A Christmas Carol’)

Students study either ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by R L Stevenson or ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. They read the full text and explore the plot, characters and themes in detail. Students will develop skills to analyse how the language, form, structure and context of the novel create meanings and effects as well as develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response. The skills they practise in this unit are assessed at GCSE in the English Literature exam (Paper 2a).

Pre-exposure homework

1. Watch film versions of the novels ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ or ‘A Christmas Carol’.

2. Research the lives of the authors. 3. Read other novels by the same authors.

Higher tier

Congruence and Similarity

Key learning: For full details please look in the specification at http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/gcse/mathematics-8300 and search for the code below.

G5, G6, G19

Pythagoras’ Theorem G20, G21, G6,

Right Angled Trigonometry

G20, G21, G6, R12


1. Find out how to work out what the words congruence and similarity mean.

2. Review Pythagoras’ Theorem and find out where it is used in the real world.

Foundation Tier

Constructions and loci G2

Algebra A3, A4, A25, A17

Congruence and similarity G5, G6, G19

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/gcse/mathematics-8300


1. Teach yourself how to construct a perpendicular bisector. 2. Find out how to work out what the words congruence and

similarity mean.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Biology Topic 2 Cells and Control

How do cells divide and specialise? What is the structure of the brain and how can it be imaged? What is the structure of neurones and how is information passed between them? What is the structure of the eye and how can ailments which effect the eyes be explained?


1. Search on Google for the ‘Secret life of the brain’ go to the PBS website and look through the sections on the life of the brain. Focus on the ‘teenage brain’ and look at why sleep is important. Be prepared to discuss this in a lesson.

2. Search on Google for the ‘eye’. Go to the webpage web md webpage and read up about the eye. Take a look through the different conditions which can affect the eyes, choose three and make notes about each one.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Chemistry C7 Types of Substance

What are molecular compounds?

What are the characteristics of simple and giant molecules?

What are the allotropes of carbon and why does one of them conduct electricity?

Why can metals conduct electricity?


Review your year 9 work on atomic structure and bonding. 1. What is the link between the periodic table and the way the

electrons are arranged in elements? 2. Why do atoms form ions? 3. What are isotopes? 4. What are the sub-atomic particles in an atom and how do you find

out how many of each there are?

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Physics P3 Conservation of Energy

How is energy stored and transferred?

How do you represent energy transfer on a diagram?

How do you calculate the efficiency of a process and what strategies are there for reducing waste energy?

How do you calculate kinetic and gravitational potential energy?

What are the differences between the renewable and non-renewable energy resources we use?



1. Search on Youtube ‘Sankey Diagrams’ and watch the film by expertmathstutor (3:37).

2. Draw a Sankey diagram for a household appliance. 3. Label the energy types being transferred and try to get the size of

the arrows in proportion to the amount of energy wasted and usefully transferred.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Biology Topic 2 Cells and Control

How do cells divide and specialise? What is the structure of the brain and how can it be imaged? What is the structure of neurones and how is information passed between them? What is the structure of the eye and how can ailments which effect the eyes be explained?


1. Search on Google for the ‘Secret life of the brain’ go to the PBS website and look through the sections on the life of the brain. Focus on the ‘teenage brain’ and look at why sleep is important. Be prepared to discuss this in a lesson.

2. Search on Google for the ‘eye’. Go to the webpage web md webpage and read up about the eye. Take a look through the different conditions which can affect the eyes, choose three and make notes about each one.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Chemistry Topic 7 Types of Substance

What are molecular compounds?

What are the characteristics of simple and giant molecules?

What are the allotropes of carbon and why does one of them conduct electricity?

Why can metals conduct electricity?


Review your year 9 work on atomic structure and bonding. 1. What is the link between the periodic table and the way the

electrons are arranged in elements? 2. Why do atoms form ions? 3. What are isotopes? 4. What are the sub-atomic particles in an atom and how do you find

out how many of each there are?

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Biology Topic 3 Conservation of Energy

How is energy stored and transferred?

How do you represent energy transfer on a diagram?

How do you calculate the efficiency of a process and what strategies are there for reducing waste energy?

How do you calculate kinetic and gravitational potential energy?

What are the differences between the renewable and non-renewable energy resources we use?


1. Search on Youtube ‘Sankey Diagrams’ and watch the film by

expertmathstutor (3:37). 2. Draw a Sankey diagram for a household appliance. 3. Label the energy types being transferred and try to get the size of

the arrows in proportion to the amount of energy wasted and usefully transferred.

Unit 1 (D) Black and white

To develop observational recording skills using a wide variety of techniques and materials. Students will produce a series of detailed and expressive study boards and will produce a personal final composition. Students will research artists who explore natural forms with a focus on process, context or compositional layout.


Alphabet All students will be completing their alphabet project to hand in just after half term. Natural forms Following that, they will be starting their natural forms unit. Selecting and photographing an inspiring natural object (example; flower, fruit, vegetable, shell etc) would be a great start.

APPLIED BUSINESS

What is a business and what do businesses do?

Students will complete the first part of topic 1.1 by learning about the following:

How businesses take risks and assess those risks against the potential rewards they will receive.

Business ethics and how this can conflict with making a profit.

Social and political pressures. Once students have completed this they will do the first part of their Controlled Assessment.


The Controlled Assessment is a research task that will require students to research two organisations and show how they deal with each of the issues covered in topic 1.1 of the syllabus.


Complete the first unit then move onto the second. People (Human Resources)

Students will learn why businesses need people. They will learn how recruitment and selection happens, how to train staff, give appraisals and motivate. They will learn about leadership and evaluate what style of leader they are most likely to be. Students will then learn about communication and financial/non-financial rewards before completing the unit by learning about how organisational structure affects employee performance.


1. Students should interview a member of their family or someone who has a job.

2. They need to find out how that person got the job, how they applied, what happened during the interview, what questions were they asked etc.

3. They should also get some advice from the person in employment as to what they feel employers find important when recruiting.

Study of an Engineered Product. Section A: GCSE 60% of Final Mark

Investigating and deconstructing a product. Undertaking a product analysis of a product and its modern equivalents. The candidate should identify two products that have developed through the influence of modern technologies.


1. How do you permanently join aluminium together? 2. Name the method and produce a diagram to show how the

process works. 3. Why is aluminium used to make bicycles instead of steel? Name 3

reasons.

Milk, Cheese and yoghurt

Students will focus on milk, cheese and yoghurt; the nutritional value and processing of such commodities. Their K & U will focus on dietary intolerances of such foods. They will engage in science experiments using such ingredients to make butter. Students will apply their knowledge to focus on planning a meal for a specific dietary requirement


1. Watch a current TV food programme. Evaluate the quality and presentation of 2-3 of the side dishes presented with main meals or desserts

Health

Students will be learning to understand, discuss and write about their free-time, including music, cinema, sport, and dining out. They will consolidate and develop their knowledge of the perfect tense, and begin to use the imperfect tense. They will be assessed in listening and writing skills on this topic.


1. In your books, make a list of 20 items of vocabulary you would need to discuss this topic eg. sports, genres of film, ordering food vocab, and then write 10 sentences including all the words.

2. Go to www.languagesonline.org.uk to revise the perfect tense 3. Make a note of 3 things you understand and 1 question you have

Global Development

Definitions of development and measuring development. Investigating levels of development globally and the consequences of uneven development, and strategies used to address this. A case study of a developing country and the positive and negative impacts of rapid development for the people and environment of that country.


1. Identify 5 key terms used in a development and find out what they

mean.

2. Find out about a developing country – what is the size of the

population, the birth rate etc. – produce a fact-file for that country

– use the following website to help you

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography/development

Health

Students will learn vocabulary and structures which will enable them to discuss current eating and exercise habits. They will talk about illnesses and addictions such as smoking, alcohol and drugs. They will use the future tense to discuss how they plan to improve their lifestyle. They will be aiming to add more details such as opinions, justifications and starting to use more complex language. At the end of this unit, students may complete a written controlled assessment


1. Visit http://www. http://www.edeka.de and under ‘unsere Marken’ select EDEKA then make a list of your weekly shop but in German!

2. Go to www.languagesonline.org.uk and read about the future tense . make a note of 3 things you understand and 1 question you have

http://www.languagesonline.org.uk/

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography/development

http://www.edeka.de/



Planometric Room

Using drawing board, set square and T square to create a hand drawn 3D room with an emphasis on accuracy and using key angles. This is then rendered using pencil crayons to suggest different materials such as wood, plastic and textiles.


1. Learn how to shade a circle as a sphere in pencil- find a YouTube video to help you.

2. Sketch this in your planner.

Unit Continues

Students will develop contextual knowledge and understanding in relation to: Bust- Americans’ experience of the Depression and the New Deal

Students will develop their extended writing and communication skills through the completion of AQA examination question. Through this process they will also develop the historical skills required to make progress and achieve in the subject


1. Undertake independent research on both the Depression and the New Deal

2. Produce an outcome, such as an acrostic poem or a newspaper front cover, which demonstrates your knowledge and understanding regarding the two key topic areas.

Using Databases

As part of the controlled assessment, students will learn to

Create and add records in a database

Apply validation techniques to a database

Carry out searches using a database


1. Go to the following website to learn about the use of databases in businesses.

http://www.teachict.com/gcse_new/databases/uses_of_databases/miniweb/index.htm

Advertising Assignment 1 – Introduction to the media. In this first assignment students will;

Become familiar with the terminology of printed media

Learn how to analyse and ‘deconstruct’ printed media texts

Learn how printed media texts target particular audiences



Produce a detailed analysis (500 words min) of two print advertisements

Design and produce a print advertisement


1. Look at a range of advertisements, both print and TV. 2. Think about the different approaches used when selling a product

or service. 3. Select a particular product or brand and see if you can find

different adverts that are aimed at different groups of people – e.g. different ages, genders, interests etc

Composing Performing and Listening

Consolidate and build on the skills covered in the previous half term. The aim is to deepen understanding of Harmony and the add Structure. Students will study the context of the set works relating into wider listening through the musical elements


Practice the skill and develop the habit of breaking all music you listen to into the core components studied this half term; Melody, Harmony and Structure

Devising theatre and performance.

Pupils to be introduced to the concept of devised theatre. Pupils will use a stimulus to devise a performance for ‘Theatre In Education’, they will use the skills gained in half term 1 to create a piece of theatre. Their piece will be aimed towards the audience of primary school children. Pupils will perform their developed piece of theatre towards the end of the term.


1. To research theatre in education and gain a greater understanding of the impact it has upon a learner.

2. Research devised theatre and gain an understanding of explorative strategies used to create theatre.

Boys and girls continue to develop team and individual skills through games

Students will be taking more responsibility for their own learning though choice and leadership. Students will make decisions about the creation of teams in lessons to make them more effective and so that they feel they have ownership over them. Increased opportunity to lead/coach/umpire/referee


Religion, human rights and social justice

Religious Attitudes to Wealth, poverty and charity Are the poor exploited? Poverty and Charity in the UK


1. Think about how the rich and the poor are treated in the UK today. 2. Research a UK charity which specifically aims to help the poor

and those living in poverty.

Health

Students will be learning to understand, discuss and write about the technology they use in their everyday lives in Spanish. They will be able to use language to talk about mobile phones, the use of the internet and social media. They will consolidate grammar and tenses already studied in year 9 and apply this knowledge to new verbs and language. They will be assessed in listening and writing skills on this topic.


1. In your books, make a list of 20 items of vocabulary you would need to discuss this topic eg. mobile phone, computer etc. and then write 10 sentences including all the words.

2. Go to www.languagesonline.org.uk to revise the present tense verb endings.

3. Make a note of 3 things you understand and 1 question you have.

Theory Movement analysis Practical Coursework

Types of levers, planes and axis of movement and basic movements associated with each. Continue to improve quality of performance in Badminton and table tennis


Research: 3 types of levers, 1st, 2nd and 3rd order


Crime and Punishment Charity Unit

Transferable literacy and numeracy. Higher level thinking skills. Identifying key information and making good choices. Considering others. Using skills to improve life for others. Transferable literacy and numeracy skills

Joining timber

How to manufacture a range of different wood joints. A skills based exercise used to springboard the design ideas for a timber product.


What does the word ‘sustainable’ mean? Write the definition in the notes section of your planner. Is timber a sustainable material?

Interpersonal and Self-Management skills Presentation skills

Students will learn about :

how different behaviours can impact on others

comparing body language in different situations

the effects of different types of criticism and dealing with feedback.

Students will learn about:

Identifying the features of an effective presentation

Describing the benefits of using presentations

Preparing written materials to support presentation

Giving presentation demonstrating positive body language

Unit 2: Knowledge and understanding of Textiles Technology PRODUCTION METHODS

Students will continue to develop skills and confidence in using the sewing machine and additional specialist equipment including the over locker. There will also be a theory file which will include trend research, industrial processes and garment construction skills. Students will apply this practical knowledge to written exam papers.


Sketch, photograph, collect as many images as you can of garment construction techniques that inspire/ interest you. Look at pockets/ pleats/ hem finishes etc.

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