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YEAR9:CURRICULUMOVERVIEW(Jan-Feb2018) 1

Subject Topics to be covered

Key Learning

Continue Unit 2 Distorted portrait

Students will: • Complete a Distorted expressive self-portrait. • Develop skills and confidence in blending colour and recording with

accuracy and skill to produce a painted outcome. Pre-exposure homework

Select from the following activities to support the Distorted Style portrait unit of work:

1. Use the Internet to explore Picasso’s varied approach to portraiture – what do you think?

2. Looking specifically at ‘The weeping woman’ Find 3 facts about the painting.

3. If you are visiting London over the next few months pop into the Tate Modern Gallery and see ‘The weeping woman’ yourself.

Students will be given a 12-point challenge style homework to enrich their understanding of distortion and portraiture.

Unseen fiction from the 19th century (GOTHIC and SETTINGS)

Students study selections from a range of 19th century prose fiction focusing on GOTHIC LITERATURE and particularly how writers craft a setting. They develop their skills of analysis and evaluation. The focus is analysing language, structure and form used by the writer and then the effect on the reader. Students explore their own personal response and evaluate and consider whether the extract is successful. The skills they learn in this unit are assessed at GCSE in the English Language exam (Paper 1a). *One lesson per fortnight will focus on grammar for writing.

Pre-exposure homework

1. Read a range of 19th century fiction from writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle and HG Wells.

2. Try reading short stories by the writers above. 3. Watch film or stage productions of work by the writers mentioned above.

Jamie’s Home Cooking Skills: - Clever Shopping - Cause a Stir

To develop practical skills both as individuals and as team members To develop students skills to prepare delicious and nutritious home-cooked food. Students will research the different ways to save time and money when shopping for food, and apply this to producing a pizza. Students will identify pasta shapes, Italian sauces and Asian sauces including Chinese food ingredients for Chinese New Year with a stir fry dish.


Research 5 pasta shapes and create an information sheet about them

Sets (1 and 2) Feuds and families

Students will be learning to discuss relationships in French – why people get on or argue, what qualities make good partners and friends. They will learn to describe people, discuss what they have done in the past and what they envisage for their future (progression in grammar) (in line with GCSE topics


1. Use www.memrise.com or www.quizlet.com to revise vocabulary for families and relationships

2. Make your own vocab lists for www.quizlet.com with the French in your books from last term to keep consolidating that language to ensure you don’t forget it!!

Sets (3 – 5) School and language skills

Students will be learning to talk and write about their experiences in school eg. their opinions of subjects and teachers. They will also describe a day that went horribly wrong to understand the past tense, and some students may develop their understanding of the future tense to talk about their ambitions Alongside this students will be focussing on how to develop their listening, reading, and production skills using a variety of roleplay situations such as at the doctor’s, shopping, and conversations in a restaurant


1. Students should revise vocab for the topics above using www.memrise.com and www.quizlet.com

2. Visit the website www.1jour1actu.fr ; a news website for young French children. Try to read some of the articles or listen to the videos for gist. Make a note of them in your book, and write what you understood for your teacher to see.

Development

The development compass rose and the North/South Divide. Statistical techniques such as choropleth maps and scattergraphs. Investigating indicators of development.


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

2. Investigate the North South divide in the UK – what facts and figures support a difference within the UK eg the cost of housing.

Free time activities, talking about sport preferences and giving opinions and reasons.

Students are now encouraged to give opinions using the verbs + ‘gern’ as well as understanding set opinion phrases ‘Ich mag’, ‘Ich hasse’ and ‘Ich liebe’. They will also learn how to justify their responses. Students will begin to look at word order rules and will use these to construct more complex sentences. Students will be introduced to present tense forms of new regular and irregular verbs and will be allowed to consolidate their knowledge of the key verbs ‘haben’ and ‘sein’ in the present tense.



1. Research a famous German sports personality online. Find out five facts about them in German and write them in your book.

2. Go online to www.languagesonline.org.uk and click on ‘Deutsch’. Under ‘Beginner’, complete the exercises on ‘Present Tense Verbs and Hobbies’ and ‘Hobbys – Word order practice’.

Democracy & Dictatorship (Continued) - Causes of WWII - Rise of Hitler & The Nazis

Key learning focuses on the concepts of democracy and dictatorship, both in the wider sense and specifically by looking at Nazi Germany. In addition, learning focuses on the causes of World War Two, building on the work completed on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. Extended writing and source analysis skills are developed via GCSE style practice questions. Students will consider different sources, learning to recognise and develop and understanding of key skills like historical interpretation.


1. Research definitions of democracy and dictatorship. Can you extend this by finding examples of both democratic and dictatorial leadership?

2. Undertake independent research on the causes of World War Two. Can you prioritise and rank them in some sort of order?

3. Develop your causation skills- can you identify the main causes/reasons that allowed Hitler and the Nazis to come to power?

Building a PC

Understand the component parts of a personal computer Understand how to build a pc Plan and budget the costs involved in building and upgrading a pc


Go to www.gcflearnfree.org/computerbasics Work through the Introduction lessons 1-4 to research what a computer is

Higher maths

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 Sequences A23, A24, A25

Percentages R9, N12

Area and Perimeter including circles.

G9, G12, G16, G17, G18

Pre-exposure Homework

Have a look on the topics on listed above on MyMaths and see what you can teach yourself to be ahead.

Foundation maths

Sequences A23, A24, A25 Percentages R9, N12 Area and Perimeter including circles.

G9, G12, G16, G17


Have a look on the topics on listed above on MyMaths and see what you can teach yourself to be ahead.

Performance Skills

Consolidate the work done in Autumn term. Students now understand how the arrangements work – Bass, Chords and then tune. The focus becomes film music; therefore start with Harry Potter. Students self monitor, learn how to practice. Playing classroom arrangements. Each piece has parts covering the various KS3 levels from 3 – 8. Students find the level they are at then try to move to the next level. How to achieve the next level is taught through applying L2L strategies. For students on Level 8 extension work is provided, Level 3 is easy enough for everyone to attain it.


1. Analysis of Film Music and scenes 2. Revise key terminology with relation to ‘Melody’

Girls Developing the Mental and Physical Capacity to persevere Communicating ideas and emotions Boys Mental and physical capacity to do exercise. Evaluating and improving performances , fitness or basketball

Students will experience a variety of different physical challenges that will deepen their understanding of the components of fitness which will enable them to evaluate improve their own personal fitness. In these challenges they will experiment with different strategies to help them persevere when they want to give up. Students will experience a variety of different physical challenges that will deepen their understanding of the components of fitness which will enable them to evaluate improve their own personal fitness. Learning includes, circuit training/interval and continuous training. Fitness for team games will also be included

Christianity: Practices

Students will be learning how Christians practise their religion through worship, festivals and pilgrimages.


1. Identify 3 types of worship and 3 festivals within Christianity – use the bbc bitesize website to help-https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zq7vrdm

2. Research one pilgrimage location and consider why Christians believe it is important to go on pilgrimages.


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

• How is energy transferred and stored? • What does efficiency mean and how do you calculate it? • What are the renewable and non-renewable resources we use in

everyday life?


1. Ask your parents if you can look at a recent electricity bill. 2. Make a note of how many units in kilowatt-hours of electrical energy

your family have used during the billing period and then estimate how many units your family have used in the last year.

3. Ask your parents if you can look at the electricity meter in your home. Make a note of the total number of kilowatt-hours displayed.

4. Estimate how many years the meter has been recording electrical energy usage.

C1 and C2 States of Matter and Separating mixtures

In this unit you will learn: • How to use information to predict the state of a substance • How the arrangement, movement, and energy of particles change

during changes of state • How to use melting points to tell the difference between mixtures and

pure substances • How to identify substances using melting points and chromatography • How different methods of separation work • How to choose a separation method based on the properties of the

substances in the mixture Pre-exposure homework

1. Do some research to find real-life examples of each of the separating techniques being used.

2. Think about how you would explain why that technique is chosen for that particular job.

Description of school, school subjects and opinions. Telling the time, modes of transport and food and drink.

Students are now encouraged to give opinions using the verbs ‘gustar’ (to like)‘encantar’(to love), ‘detestar’ (to hate)and follow them up with justifications. They will discuss culture differences between Spain and Britain, particularly focussing on meal times and the school day. Students should now be independently using regular verbs in the present tense and some common irregular verbs.


1. Using the internet research school life in Spain. How does the school day differ to life in Britain? Write a summary in English.

2. Use the website www.languagesonline.org.uk to learn the names of school subjects. Choose ‘español’ then ‘Caminos 1’ unidad 5. Complete the first 2 exercises then learn the new vocabulary.

Manufacturing and designing a Light

● Research: Joining timber together and timbers. ● Measuring, marking, cutting and shaping accurately. ● Identification of tools and processes used. ● Design Task base of lamp

Pre-exposure Homework

You will be designing a light with a simple circuit and an L.E.D. 1. Why is an LED an environmentally sound bulb to use in a light? 2. What types of light bulbs did they replace? 3. Why?

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