Curriculum Information Session

Year 7 & Year 8

English

How can parents help - English

1. Resilient Readers: pupils should be encouraged to read challenging text (e.g. Black Beauty, Animal Farm, 1984, or Great Expectations).

2. Reading Skills: pupils should be encouraged to practise reading skills (e.g. explain, explore, analyse, and evaluate text) at home. Ask them questions about the book and what they learnt from it.

3. Improve memorisation: commit to memory important quotes which resonate with you as a reader.

4. Write: Encourage them to write a summary of the book, an article on current affairs or even keep a diary. They should use any new vocabulary they have learnt.

5. Homework: Ensure that homework is completed to the best of their ability.

Mathematics

Securing the foundations in Mathematics

External Edexcel/Pearson Examinations

• May Year 7 – Number and Measure Award Level 1

• May Year 8 – Number and Measure Award Level 2

• January Year 9 – Algebra Award Level 2

How can parents help -Mathematics

1. Role Model: Talk about mathematics in a positive way, even if you find the subject challenging. A positive attitude about mathematics is infectious.

2. Establish Routines: Practice everyday without fail, little and often works best. “mathematical muscle.” Marcus du Sautoy (Professor of Maths at University of Oxford)

3. Re-visit topics: Encourage your daughter to go over topics from previous weeks/months/years.

4. Problem Solving: Maths is all around us. Discuss everyday mathematics problems that you come across. Ask her to think about the different approaches of solving the problem. Often there is more than one method, some more efficient than others, analyse this.

5. Resilience: Encourage persistence. Some problems take time to solve.

Science

E-Safety

E-Safety

– What does it involve

• (Internet, Chat rooms and Cyber bullying)

– What dangers exist?

– What can we do to stay safe?

The Internet is Amazing

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Who is Mark Zuckerburg?

1. Creator of Facebook 2. Friday 14th May / 26 Years old 3. Billionaire 4. 400 million people+ using it 5. Facebook is only 6 years old Question! Imagine all the status-updates that you

ever done on Facebook, suddenly became public via a search engine like Google.

How would you feel?

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Using the internet safely

Talk to your parents

Never give out your password

Don't give out your contact details

Don't download any software without

permission

Respect people's privacy

Use a child safe web browser

Respect copyright

Use the internet safely and responsibly

The problems with chat rooms

Staying safe in chatrooms

Talk to your parents

Use a Nick Name

Don't give out your contact details

Don't meet up in real life on your own

Stay in the public chatroom

Don’t send your photo to anyone Don’t open

attachments from people you don’t know

Cyber bullying

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Dealing with Cyber bullying

Don't give out your contact details

Contact the website

Tell someone – don’t suffer in silent

Don’t send your photo to anyone

Don’t respond back