Curriculum notes

Curriculum notes

Year 7CE - Summer Term 2008

ENGLISH
  • Media unit – newspapers (work will be included in a Year 7 newspaper)
  • Revise all punctuation to date
  • Paragraphing
  • Direct and indirect speech
  • Revision of sentence structure
  • Study of a drama text (writing/performance)
  MATHEMATICS
  • Transformations
  • Bearings
  • Number calculations
  • Revision and assessments
  • Problem solving
  • Speed, distance, time
  • Travel graphs
  • Constructions
 Additional topics for Scholarship and CE Papers 2 and 4: Inequalities SCIENCE
  • Microbes
  • A healthy body
  • Diseases
  • Drugs and Alcohol
  • Transpiration
  • Photosynthesis
  • Reproduction in green plants
  • Light rays
  • Light terminology
  • Refraction
  • Dispersal
 FRENCH
  • Past, future and ideal holidays
  • Talking about friends and comparing personalities and descriptions
  • Pocket money and what you buy with it
  • Gadgets and technology and expressing opinions about them
  • What you and others would and would not like to do
 SPANISH
  • Directions
  • Food and quantities
  • Inviting a friend to spend a holiday with you
  • Accepting an invitation
  • Revision of months
  • Setting up a party
  • Welcoming and introducing people at a party
  • Making plans using simple future
 GERMAN
  • Family (revision and extension)
  • Daily life at school
  • Future plans
  • Sporting activities
  • Hobbies
  • Invitations/Excuses
  • Getting on with people (social conventions)
  • Holidays (revision and extension)
 LATIN
  • Comparative and superlative adjectives
  • Irregular verbs
  • Numerals
  • Adverbs
  • Translation practice
  • Historical topics
 HISTORYMedieval Realms
  • The Black Death 
  • Peasants revolt
  • Richard III and The Battle of Bosworth
 GEOGRAPHY
  • Fieldwork
  • Economic activities
  • National Parks
 RELIGIOUS STUDIESOld Testament CE set texts
  • The Creation Stories
  • The Fall
  • Cain and Abel
  • The Near Sacrifice of Isaac
And some contemporary issues arising from these stories:
  • Science and creation
  • Stewardship and the environment
  • Human nature and morality
  • Anger and jealousy
  • Making sacrifices for others
   ICT
  • MS PowerPoint skills
  • Rivers Project using PowerPoint
 MUSIC
  • Learning simple chord sequences using electronic keyboards
  • Keyboard composition and improvisation
  • Copland Rodeo suite
  • Sibelius music software
 DRAMA
  • Introduction to Shakespeare with particular reference to Macbeth
 ARTSLD
  • De-construction of life forms.  The figure analysed, recorded and re-assembled in three dimensions, using clay
NJE
  • Pupils will work on understanding modernism and experimentation in different styles, skills and materials.  This will help inform pupils of other different art forms in contemporary art
  • Work will involve drawing skills and experimentation, in numerous materials and a finished work of art relating to a theme based on consumerism
JRH
  • Using a variety of mediums to draw the human form and looking at artists such as Rodini and Van Gough
  • Produce a final piece that depicts an emotion
 DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
  • Design and make a board game
  • Considering: format, method employed in the playing, mathematical skills in construction and using ICT skills
 PSHE
  • Welcome back and target setting
  • Code of conduct
  • Recovery position
  • What is Britishness?
  • Moving into Year 8
 CITIZENSHIP
  • Time management and study skills
  • Carbon footprint
  • Europe on the move
  • The European Parliament
  • Debating skills