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Observational Learning Task  

Topic: Confectionary 

We will look at a range of Art skills including: Rendering for shape and texture. Rough sketching using crating technique – boxes and elipses. Photography. 

Skills: Chalk pastels, Acrylic 

Baseline assessment 

Sweet wrapper collage  

Student’s work will be assessed at least every 6 lessons 

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Topic: Confectionary 

We will look at a range of Art skills including: paint brush control; paint mixing; pen and water; pencil skills; pencil crayon skills 

Chalk pastel donut 

Acrylic Sweet wrappers 

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Students will further develop their practical skills in Python coding to include  Python -operators, Python -IF statement, Python -while loops, Python -for loops, Python -Lists 

Python Quiz, Python Project 

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Students will be introduced to Video Editing using Adobe premiere. Topics include: Creating a narrative, Adding effects, Cutting and slicing, Editing videos, 

Video Editing Quiz, Video Editing Project, Video Editing Practical Assessment 

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In Year 9 students will follow the same carousel experience as Years 7 and 8. They will spend approximately 7 weeks in each of the Design Technology material areas, building on the skills learnt before.  

 
Electronics:  

Students will make a speaker that can connect to a range of different items and amplify sound. Students use advanced soldering techniques to populate PCBs (printed circuit boards). Students make a laser cut box to house the speaker circuit and customise the casing using CAD. 
 
Food & Nutrition:  
In Year 9 students will learn about the value of Food choice and how different types of food affect our energy levels. We revisit the Eatwell Guide and students are introduced to the 8 Tips for Healthy Eating. They will consider the factors that affect the number of calories we need and which types of foods are more energy dense. They will be looking at whole foods verses processed foods and considering the affects they have on our body in the long term. We look at the nutrients that different coloured fruit and vegetables give to us and how we can get the balance right in the Food choices that we make.  
In the practical Year 9 will be making Stuffed Bread Whirls, Mini Quiche’s, Swiss Roll and a modified Mac ‘n’Cheese.  

 
Please note that all recipes and cooking dates will be on Go4Schools. We have also introduced a recipe book that they will be given at the start of their rotation. Students need to bring a container with a locking lid to take their food home in.  
 
Product Design:  
Students will learn about mechanisms in year 9, learning about linkages, cranks and sliders and cam systems, understanding what they do, how they work and what they are used for. This knowledge is then built on as they design and make a mechanical toy using a cam and follower system. Students will design a themed toy and select the most appropriate cam to provide the movement. This knowledge is aimed at addressing areas of the GCSE specification in preparation for if students opt to take a design and technology subject in year 10. 
 
Textiles:  
Students will be making a small drawstring bag including the theme of Day of the Dead features. They will look at key symbols, motifs and patterns found within this festival, using them as inspiration to design their own decorative skull. They will incorporate screen printing, stitched fabrics and drawing with the sewing machine to show their creative artwork on the bag. 

During each rotation students will be assessed on Design work, Homework and their Product outcome 

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Term 1 - 21st Century novel 
 
During this unit students read sections from a modern novel: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. They will consider key themes such as: civil rights; identity; and growing up. 
 
Students explore how social and historical context can influence writers when producing texts, and readers when receiving them.  
 
Key skills: using references from a text to support your ideas; embedding quotations; explore patterns and themes across texts; make inferences about texts; explore the writer’s purpose and its effect on the reader; explore the context in which a text is written and received.  

Term 2 - Media unit: The British Press  

Students explore broadsheet and tabloid media reporting and learn how to become critical readers.  

Key skills: persuasive writing techniques; structuring non-fiction writing; understand purpose and audience; secure control of word choice; secure control of punctuation. 

English unit: The Hate U Give   
 
Formative & summative assessment: Reading comprehension 

Formative & summative assessment: Non-fiction/ transactional writing 

 
Weekly Educake reading skills homework set on Go4Schools. 
 

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Contemporary geography issues

• Wildfires
• Global fashion
• Migration- Mexico to USA

• Assessment to reflect students ability to assess and evaluate current global issue- Extended writing at the end of each issue investigation.

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Rivers

• River profile
• River processes – erosion, transportation and deposition
• River features
• Flood example

• Rivers end of topic test to cover all aspects learnt.

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  Turning points of WW2 
• Retrieval – causes of WW2 
• The battle of Dunkirk 
• Pearl Harbour  
• D-Day 

  Write an account of the consequences of Pearl Harbour 

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  The Cold War 
• Causes of the Cold War (ideologies)  
• Berlin Airlift  
• Cuban Revolution 
• The Vietnam War (causes, events and resolution)   

  Explain the significance of tactics used during the Vietnam War 

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 Straight Line Graphs – plotting graphs, using a table of values, gradients and intercepts, using and writing y=mx+c, real-life graphs, inverse proportion and perpendicular lines 

Forming and solving equations – review 1 and 2 step equations and inequalities, inequalities with negatives, solve equations with unknowns on both sides, equations and inequalities in context, substitution, rearranging formulae 

Testing conjectures – factors, multiples and primes, explore mathematical statements, exploring number properties, conjectures with numbers and algebra, expanding binomials 

End of year 8 topics and straight line graphs 

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 Three dimensional shapes – recognise 3-D shapes and their properties, construct nets of 3-D shapes, draw plans and elevations, review area of 2-D shapes, surface area of prisms and cylinders, volume of prisms and cylinders, investigate volume of cones, pyramids and spheres 

Constructions and congruency – draw and measure angles, review constructions work, construct and interpret scale drawings, loci, bisectors, congruent figures and rules of congruency with triangles 

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Folk Music: the context and history of folk music. Extended right hand technique on the keyboard. Whole chord accompaniments in the keyboard. Time Signatures, including compound time. Extended melodic vocabulary. 

Practical keyboard assessment 

Listening test 

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Folk Music – final keyboard assessment and listening. 

Jazz Music – learning about the history and context surrounding jazz music. Composing with chord sequences. Creating bass lines. Improvisation. Pentatonic minor scales. 

 Final folk music keyboard assessment. 

Listening test on folk music 

Formative feedback on composition work. 

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Trampolining - Boys 

Netball - Girls 

Rugby - Boys 

HRE - Girls 

Interhouse Football  

Verbal formative assessment of skills and knowledge, understanding and application in conditioned and competitive conditions. 

Completion of core task at beginning and end of block of work. 

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Rugby/football - boys 

HRE/rugby – girls 

Trampolining/hockey – boys 

Netball/trampolining - girls 

  Verbal formative assessment of skills and knowledge, understanding and application in conditioned and competitive conditions. 

Completion of core task at beginning and end of block of work. 

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BIOLOGY  (3 lessons)

B1 – Introduction to Biology

• Cells
• Microscopy
• Specialisation and Differentiation
• Chromosomes
• Mitosis
• Stem cells
• Diffusion
• Osmosis
• Active transport

CHEMISTRY (3 lessons)

C9 – Chemistry of the Atmosphere

• Earth’s early atmosphere
• How oxygen increased
• Greenhouse gases
• Human influence
• Global climate change
• Carbon footprint
• Pollution

C8 Chemical Analysis

• Pure substances
• Formulation
• Chromatography
• Tests for gases

PHYSICS (3 lessons)

P4 – Atomic Structure

• Development of the model of the atom
• Structure of the atom
• Isotopes
• Radioactive decay and types of radiation
• Nuclear equations
• Half life and activity
• Contamination and irradiation
• Uses of radioactive isotopes

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)

GL Assessment on KS3 science

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.

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Recap of phonics. 

Giving opinions & comparing different types of holiday. 

Giving complex opinions & comparing different holiday activities. 

Using a range of tenses to discuss usual, past & future holidays.

Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes  

Writing: 4 bullet point question (FQ4/HQ1) 

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Cumulative scores from 5 vocabulary quizzes  

Speaking: Reading aloud task