Year 7
The Basics - Grid co-ordinates, view finder, mark making unit
Year 8
Portraits - Grid, tracing, tone, texture, colour mixing unit
Year 9
Cubism - Collage, blending, fragmented, constructing
Year 10
Personal response - Observational drawing, rule of thirds, enlarging, formal element investigation
Year 11
Personal response - Observational drawing, rule of thirds, enlarging, formal element investigation
Year 7
Digital Skills and User Interfaces
Year 8
Computer systems and social engineering
Year 9
Algorithms, programming and solution design
Year 10
Networks, performance and systems development
Year 11
Real-World scenario planning and problem-solving
Year 7
Plastics in everyday life
Year 9
Advanced Design Skills
Year 10
Core Technical Principles
Year 11
Exam preparation* (ends May Y10)
Year 7
Social and Political Protest: Animal Farm
Year 8
War and Conflict: Lord of the Flies
Year 9
Introduction to GCSE English literature: To Kill a Mockingbird/Of Mice and Men
Introduction to GCSE English language: Writing to express a viewpoint
Year 10
GCSE Shakespeare: Introduction to Macbeth
Year 11
GCSE English literature: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Macbeth
Year 7
Introduction to kitchen &
healthy eating
Year 8
Bacteria, yeasts &
moulds
Year 7
Beinvenue au College
Year 10
Jours Ordinaires, Jours de la Fete
Year 7
Africa: Climate, globalisation desertification, changing cities
Year 8
North America: Globalisation, Earthquakes, migration, employment
Year 9
Asia: Ecosystems, Weather / climate, natural hazards & population
Europe: Climate, glaciation, resource management & river landscapes
Year 10
Global development
Year 11
UK challenges, weather and climate
Year 11
eine wunderbare Welt
Year 7
Normal conquest & medieval England
Year 8
The Industrial Revolution & the Victorian age
Year 9
Struggles for human rights
Year 10
GCSE Teaching Block 3: Medicine in Britain, 1250 -present
Year 11
GCSE Teaching Block 7: Superpower Relations & Cold War 1941 - 1991
Year 9
The Theoretical Framework of media
Year 10
Making media products/ TV drama
Year 11
Exam preparation* (ends May Y10)
Year 7
The Basics: During this block students take on a huge amount of new information based on the basic musical elements. We expect students to use new terminology in context almost immediately through discussion, written tasks and mainly through practical singing. Each lesson students learn a new piece of music to sing which demonstrates the element in question. Students will study basic rhythms, pitch, musical structures and textures, dynamics, timbre and tempo.
Year 8
Programme Music: This unit further formalises composition and builds on the work completed in teaching Year 7 block 3. Students now compose with pitch as well as rhythm and create more complex ideas which are based around music which tells stories.
Year 9
Performance & Composition: Students’ time is split between Mr Lamb and Ms Sewell and will focus on instrumental performance with Ms Sewell, and composition with Mr Lamb. This block is aimed at developing both confidence and skill in direct preparation for GCSE music.
Year 10
Score analysis (Bach, Beethoven, Purcell) Performance and Composition
Year 11
Score analysis (Spalding, Afro Celt) Performance and Composition
Year 9
Components of fitness and training methods. Benefits of physical activity, diet
Year 10
Body systems and Commercialisation and technology
Year 11
Movement analysis and sports psychology
Year 7
Ultimate Questions
Year 10
Crime & punishment
Year 7
Safety in science
Practical chemistry
Separation techniques
Energy
Year 8
Periodic table
Metals & Acids
Electricity & Magnetism
Year 9
Cell structure and transport Cell Division Atomic Structure Structure and bonding Energy transfers Energy resources
Year 10
Communicable diseases Preventing and treating disease Respiration Photosynthesis Electrolysis Energy changes Chemical calclulations Radioactivity Electricity
Year 11
Variation and evolution Genetics and evolution Antibiotic resistance Adaptations, interdependence and competition Chemical analysis Earth's atmosphere Momentum Hooke's Law Pressure Waves