Year 10 Term 1 and 2

art

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Baseline drawing assessment GCSE coursework: Twisting and Turning (Portfolio Unit 01, worth 60% of total GCSE) Theme 1: Nature We will look at a range of Art skills, including: pencil skills; image research; presentation skills; experimenting with different media	Baseline assessment Mind map and mood board pages Media experimentation page
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
GCSE coursework: Twisting and Turning (Portfolio Unit 01, worth 60% of total GCSE) Theme 1: Nature We will look at a range of Art skills, including: a variety of printing techniques; artist research; responding to an artist	Printing page Artist study page Folder review

beliefs and ethics

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Christian Beliefs Christianity – origins The nature of God God as omnipotent, loving and just The Oneness of God and the Trinity Different Christian beliefs about Creation The incarnation of Jesus the Son of God The crucifixion The resurrection and ascension Resurrection and life after death The afterlife and judgement Heaven and hell Sin and Salvation The role of Christ in salvation	Loving God and suffering question Evidence for the resurrection question End of topic exam questions
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Christian Practices Worship Prayer The sacraments: Baptism The sacraments: Holy Communion Celebrating Holy Communion Pilgrimage Celebrating festivals The role of the Church in the local community – Food banks The role of the Church in the local community – Street Pastors The place of mission and evangelism Church growth The importance of the world wide Church Christian persecution The Church’s response to world poverty	Question on the role Holy Communion Question on evangelism End of topic exam questions

Btec Tech Award Sport

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Learning Aim A – preparing for sport Provision – NGB’s, team, individual, outdoor, public, private and voluntary. Advantages and disadvantages of sports provision. Why participate in sport Awareness of target groups in sport and physical activity. Barriers to participation.	Method of assessment Scenario practice. Revision resources Revision resources can be found on the TEAMs page for each individual teaching class in the files section.

Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Learning Aim B Equipment and sport. Facilities in sport and physical activity Technology in sport (types and limitations)	Method of assessment Scenario practice. Practice exam scenarios.

BUSINESS

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Business GCSE   Unit 1 : Edexcel Business GCSE    Topic 1.1 Enterprise and entrepreneurship – students are introduced to the dynamic  nature of business in relation to how and why business ideas come about. They also  explore the impact of risk and reward on business activity and the role of  entrepreneurship.  The dynamic nature of  Business  Risk and reward  The role of business enterprise    Business BTEC    Component 1 – Exploring Enterprises.   Size and features of SMEs  Sectors and business models in which enterprises operate  Aims and activities of enterprises  Skills and characteristics of entrepreneurs	End of unit test. Up to 9 marks questions.                        Coursework internally assessed. Externally moderated
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Business GCSE Unit 1 : Edexcel Business GCSE Topic 1.2 Spotting a business opportunity – students will explore how new and small businesses identify opportunities through understanding customer needs Customer needs Market research Market segmentation The competitive environment Business BTEC Component 1 – Exploring Enterprises. Market research methods Understanding customer needs Understanding competitor behaviour Suitability of market research methods	End of unit test. Up to 9 marks questions. Coursework internally assessed. Externally moderated

Computer Science

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Students will cover the fundamental concepts of computer systems architecture, including the CPU, memory, and system performance.	Homework End of Topic Tests
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Students will explore the different types of memory and storage, their purposes, and how they impact system performance.	Systems Architecture Quiz, CPU Quiz

Drama

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
The study of the play Noughts & Crosses and the practitioner Bertolt Brecht. Live Evaluation of the Dear Evan Hansen
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
The study of the play Noughts & Crosses and the practitioner Bertolt Brecht. Live Evaluation of the Dear Evan Hansen

DT Electronic Products

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Designing a board game for a specific target market. Using 2D design for customizing designs. Simple circuits on CAD modelling software (Yenka)	Design and making will be assessed. Theory linked to project will be check for completion and accuracy.
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Designing a board game for a specific target market. Using 2D design for customizing designs. Simple circuits on CAD modelling software (Yenka)	Design and making will be assessed. Theory linked to project will be check for completion and accuracy.

DT FOOD

Curriculum Information	Assessment information
Theory content: Macronutrients - Carbohydrates in Term 1 For each of these students will learn: What foods we get them from Subcategories based on origin or structure The function of them in the body The chemical and physical functions of them in dishes The effects on the body of excess and deficiency in these nutrients and how this affects long term health Practical: we will be focused on basic knife skills using small vegetable knives. Basic cooking skills combining ingredients and creating a good quality outcome, whilst building confidence in more complex dishes. In term 2 students will make a range of bread products based on different kinds of raising agents. Food science: students will learn about Gelatinisation, Dextrinisation, Carmelisation and the development of Gluten as well as different kinds of raising agents. Cooking dates and recipes for the term will be uploaded to Go4Schools in week 1 of each term. It is important that all students bring a container with a locking lid big enough to take their dish home.	Students will be set homework every two weeks, this will be marked by the teacher and they will be given an opportunity to improve the work. Students will receive verbal feedback during practical lessons to help them develop their safe working practice. They do not have any formal assessment on their practical until later in the year as they are very much teacher led and the focus will be on encouragement and building independence. There will be an end of topic test in the last week of term which is graded. In terms 1 and 2 this will be short answer questions worth 1 & 2 marks. They will be building to longer GCSE questions as the year progresses.

DT Product Design

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Theory: Evaluating the suitability of different woodworking joints and finishing techniques, identification of timbers Make: Students learn the skills to make 6 different woodworking joints and apply different finishes to timber	Theory work will be checked for completion and accuracy. Joint frame will be assessed for quality of making and finish.
Theory: Learning the techniques and skills used to create products using the 3D printer. This links with theory content including production techniques, development of ideas and material properties Design: Students follow a set of plans to make a virtual model of a do nothing machine. They can then adapt it to suit their own requirements	Theory work will be checked for completion and accuracy. CAD work will be assessed for accuracy and quality of design.

DT Textiles

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Fashion illustration Tote Bag /Skirt/Shorts Design: exploring mixed media to create a range of fashion and fabric illustrations inspired by different artists Materials: polycotton, found fabrics, laser cut shapes for fabric manipulation Techniques/Making: sublimation printing and fabric manipulation, along with techniques from DOTD; leading to creating a shoulder/tote bag Artists: Rene Gruau, Alison Willoughby, Henri Matisse, Alexander McQueen	Work will be assessed every 6 lessons. Practical techniques Quality of illustration Quality of outcome.
Fashion illustration Tote Bag /Skirt/Shorts Design: exploring mixed media to create a range of fashion and fabric illustrations inspired by different artists Materials: polycotton, found fabrics, laser cut shapes for fabric manipulation Techniques/Making: sublimation printing and fabric manipulation, along with techniques from DOTD; leading to creating a shoulder/tote bag Artists: Rene Gruau, Alison Willoughby, Henri Matisse, Alexander McQueen	Work will be assessed every 6 lessons. Practical techniques Quality of illustration Quality of outcome.

ENGLISH

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Assessment information

Term 1 - Power & Conflict Poetry Anthology

Students study 15 poems, clustered relating to the themes of power and conflict.

Key skills: comprehending poetic language; analysing poetic structure and form; exploring the effect of writer’s methods; exploring the influence of context on the production and reading of texts; comparing texts; analytical academic writing; structuring academic essays.

Term 2 - A Christmas Carol

Students study this 19th century novel by Charles Dickens, which is a set text for their English Literature GCSE.

Key skills: comprehending 19th-century language; analysing the novel’s structure and form; exploring the effect of writer’s methods; exploring the influence of context on the production and reading of texts; analytical academic writing; structuring academic essays.

Formative: writing an academic essay exploring one poem’s language and structure.

Summative: writing an academic essay comparing two poems’ language and structure.

Formative: writing an academic essay exploring one theme or character.

Summative: writing an academic essay exploring one theme or character.

Weekly comprehension and quotation quizzes set for homework on Go4Schools.

Geography

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Urban Issues and Challenges Urban growth Megacities Case study- Rio de Janeiro (LIC) Case study- Bristol (HIC) Sustainable cities- Freiburg	Regular exam questions- student and teacher assessed (recall) Mid unit LIC urban assessment End of unit Urban assessment
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Urban issues and challenges Urbanisation Case study- Bristol (HIC) Sustainable cities- Freiburg	Series of short answer GCSE questions up to 6 marks on Urban. End of unit Urban assessment

GERMAN

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1

Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2

H&S BTEC

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Teaching and learning of learning aims A1 and A2 ‘Understand human growth and development across life stages and the factors that affect it’ for component 1 ‘Human Lifespan Development’	Folder checks to ensure that students have the high quality notes they will rely on during the controlled assessment. Assessment to check K&U of key concepts
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Teaching and learning of learning aims B1 and B2 ‘Understand how individuals deal with life events’ for component 1 ‘Human Lifespan Development’	Practice PSA1 tasks 1 & 2

HISTORY

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Conflict & Tension (Peacekeeping) Aims of the Big 3 after WW1 The Treaty of Versailles (terms) How did the Treaty of Versailles impact Germany?	Open book assessment – GCSE paper on ‘peacekeeping’
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Conflict & Tension (League of Nations) Aims of the League of Nations Membership of the League of Nations Powers of the League of Nations Events in the 1920s	Open book assessment – GCSE paper on ‘peacekeeping’

life skills

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Unit C1 Rights & Responsibilities Instagram & TikTok Generation Targeted Advertising and Your Data What is Marriage? Rights and Responsibilities Consumer Rights Employment Rights Exploring a Pay Check	Life Skills is not assessed by grades, other than a baseline and final assessment to measure positive progress.
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Unit C2 Mental health & wellbeing Child Sexual Abuse Screen Time Mental Health Illnesses Self-Harm Suicidal (Thoughts and Feelings) Promoting Emotional Wellbeing	Life Skills is not assessed by grades, other than a baseline and final assessment to measure positive progress.

MATHS

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Congruence, similarity and enlargement –enlarge by any scale factor, similar triangles and other shapes, similarity relating to area and volume(H), congruent triangles Trigonometry – trigonometry in right-angled triangles, Pythagoras’ theorem in right-angled triangles and in 3D (H), trigonometry in non right-angled triangles (H)	60 min test on end of year 9 topics, congruence, similarity and enlargement and trigonometry
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Representing solutions of equations and inequalities – solving linear equations, solving inequalities and representing these on a number line, solving equations using graphs, representing inequalities graphically, factorise quadratics, solving quadratic inequalities(H) Simultaneous equations – to identify solutions, solve equations by substitution, solving simultaneous equations both algebraically and graphically, solve a linear and quadratic simultaneous equation, solve simultaneous equations with 3 unknowns(H) Angles and bearings – cardinal directions, scale diagrams, draw, measure and calculate bearings, scale drawings with bearings, bearings with Pythagoras and trigonometry(H)

MEDIA

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Component 1: Exploring Media Texts (learning aim A)	PSA
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Component 1: Exploring Media Texts (learning aim B)	PSA

music

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Solo Performance AoS3: Film Music How the musical elements are used in film music Techniques used in film music composition	Solo Performance formative assessment Short compositional exercises Listening Tests
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
AoS4: Popular Music. History of pop music, popular music instruments, music technology use in pop music. Examination set work Africa analysed. Final solo performance preparation and recording. Song Writing	AoS4 assessment test Listening tests in lessons Summative feedback and assessment of performance. Short composition exercises related to song writing

gcse pE

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
Effects of exercise on the body. Skeletal system – function, location, joint types and location, movement at a joint, components of a joint. Muscular system – function, location, how movement occurs, lactic acid accumulation, movement analysis.	Method of assessment Exam questions – short and long answer End of topic test (Interleaving). Revision resources Revision resources can be found on the TEAMs page for each individual teaching class in the files section. Revision book may be purchased from PE. Seneca and GCSE Bitesize website.
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
Effects of exercise on the body. Cardiovascular system – function, key components, data analysis. Respiratory system - function, key components, gaseous exchange, data analysis.	Method of assessment Exam questions – short and long answer End of topic test (Interleaving).

CORE pE

Curriculum Information Term 1	Assessment information Term 1
10a: Badminton* – Sport group Table tennis – girls Football – girls 10b: Football* - Boys Badminton* - Mixed Fitness - Girls	*Sports groups: GCSE/Btec specific exam grading criteria
Curriculum Information Term 2	Assessment information Term 2
10a: Netball* - sports group Fitness suite – boys Badminton/volleyball - girls Fitness –girls 10b: Rugby* - sports group Basketball* - mixed  Fitness – girls TBC - boys	*Sports groups: GCSE/Btec specific exam grading criteria

Science (Combined Science)

Curriculum Information Term 1 and 2

Assessment information Term 1 and 2

BIOLOGY (3 lessons)

B4 Bioenergetics

Photosynthesis
Rates of photosynthesis
Use of Glucose
Plant Growth Hormones
Aerobic respiration
Exercise
Metabolism

B5 Homeostasis and Response

Human Nervous system
Endocrine system
Control of blood glucose
Hormones in reproduction and infertility
Adrenalin and Thyroxine

CHEMISTRY (3 lessons)

C6 Rate and Extent of chemical change

Calculating rates of reaction
Factors affecting rates of reaction
Investigations into rates of reaction
Collision theory and activation energy
Conservation of mass
Balanced chemical equations
Catalysts
Reversible Reactions
Equilibrium

C7 Organic Chemistry

Crude Oil
Hydrocarbons and alkanes
Fractional distillation
Cracking
Alkenes

C1 Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table

Atoms, elements and compounds
Mixtures
Development of the model of the Periodic table.
Subatomic particles
Relative atomic mass
Electronic structure

PHYSICS (3 lessons)

P3 Particle Model of Matter

States of matter
Density
Changes of State
Internal Energy
Specific heat capacity and specific latent heat
Particle motion in gases

P5 Forces

Scalar and vector quantities
Contact and non-contact forces
Gravity and Weight
Resultant forces

All students will be set THREE Educake homeworks per fortnight (www.educake.co.uk) one for each subject.

These are always set on a Monday of week one and will be due in on the Sunday of week 2 (or the last Sunday of a holiday if it is set on the last fortnight of term)

Every topic will have a number of assessment points (roughly 1 every 6 lessons). These are based on exam questions and are designed to help build students exam skills as well as test their recall on the topics.

spanish

Curriculum Information Term 1 and 2	Assessment information Term 1
Talking about life online (Revising the present tense, using expressions of frequency) Talking about sports & free time activities (Revising the irregular present tense, using opinion verbs and expressions) Arranging to go out (Using the near future tense, listening for preferences, saying what you did at the weekend, using the preterite, phonics focus “c”) Discussing travel plans (using comparatives, using se puede) Talking about festivals (using the superlative, using if clauses) Describing where you stayed (using the imperfect, giving & spotting negative & positive opinions) Talking about different holidays using different tense (using suelo, using strategies to work out meaning)	Cumulative scores from 3 vocabulary quizzes Module 1 Listening Module 1 Reading
	Assessment information Term 2
	Cumulative scores from 3 vocabulary quizzes Module 2 Writing Module 2 Speaking