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YEAR 10: CURRICULUM OVERVIEW (Feb - Mar 2018) 1

Subject Topics to be covered

Key Learning

Comparing 20th and 21st Century Non-Fiction Texts

Students study a range of 20th- and 21st-century non-fiction texts -including literary non-fiction- and develop skills to analyse, evaluate and compare non-fiction extracts. The skills they practise in this unit are assessed at GCSE in the English Language exam (Paper 2a). *One lesson per fortnight will focus on improving writing.

Pre-exposure homework

1) Collect a range of texts from newspapers to leaflets to travel brochures. Identify the audience and purpose of each and consider how language is used in each.

2) Have a look at the ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ sections on http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/ and http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php

3) Read good quality broadsheet newspapers in preparation for the level of sophistication required for this unit.

Higher tier

Key learning: For full details please look in the specification at http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/gcse/mathematics-8300 and search for the code below.

Quadratic Equations and Rearranging Formulae

A4, A5

Volume R12, G16, G17, N8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/

http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/gcse/mathematics-8300


Have a look on the topics on listed above on MyMaths and see what you can teach yourself to be ahead.

Foundation Tier

Key learning: For full details please look in the specification at

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/gcse/mathematics-

8300 and search for the code below.

Further circumference and area

G9, G17, G18, N8

Properties of Polygons

G3, G4


Have a look on the topics on listed above on MyMaths and see what you can teach yourself to be ahead.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Biology Topic 3 Genetics

How are gametes formed?

What is the structure and function of DNA?

How are proteins made?

How are characteristics inherited and how do scientists predict the inheritance of characteristics?


1) Search you tube for ‘Secret of Life – Discovery of DNA Structure’ Listen to the story of Watson and Crick and make notes on how the discovery was made.

2) Go to BBC Bitesize. Click on GCSE then biology then Inheritance and Genetics. Work through the revision on Genetics Diagrams and Pedigree to introduce you to inheritance. Try remembering the key terms which are highlighted and see if you can explain how your gender has been inherited.




C11 Obtaining and using metals and C12 Reversible reactions and equilibria

In this topic you will learn: ● About how metals can be extracted ● About the advantages of Recycling Metals ● About the life cycle assessment of products ● Explain what happens during electrolysis and electroplating ● About equilibria in chemical reactions ● About the Haber process ● How to write half equations ● The properties of transition metals ● Properties and uses of metals and their alloys


Find and watch the YouTube video ‘Ammonia’ Royal Society of Chemistry (4:34mins) to prepare you for your study of equilibrium.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1)

P7 Astronomy

P8 Forces doing work and P9 Forces and their

effects

How have ideas about our solar system changed over time and what is the evidence for these changes?

Why is gravity different on different objects and how does this affect their orbit?

What is red-shift and how does it contribute to theories about the origin of the Universe?

What is the life cycle of a star?

How is energy in a system changed and how to you calculate the power of a machine?

How do you use vectors to work out the effect of forces on an object?


Visit the BBC Space website. Spend 20-30mins browsing the site, reading interesting articles and watching video clips.

Revise the difference between vector and scalar quantities from P1.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Biology Topic 2 Cells and Control

How do cells divide and specialise? What is the structure of the brain and how can it be imaged? What is the structure of neurones and how is information passed between them?

KS4 COMBINED SCIENCE What is the structure of the eye and how can ailments which effect the eyes be explained?


1) Search you tube for ‘Mr Ward EC video’ and watch the clip. Remind yourself of some of the material you have already covered such as asexual reproduction. Be prepared to use this information to answer questions about cell division during the topic.

2) Search on Google for the ‘Secret life of the brain’ go to the PBS

website and look through the sections on the life of the brain. Focus on the ‘teenage brain’ and look at why sleep is important. Be prepared to discuss this in a lesson. Search on Google for the ‘eye’. Go to the webpage web md webpage and read up about the eye. Take a look through the different conditions which can affect the eyes, choose three and make notes about each one.

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) C8 Acids and Alkalis

Acid, alkalis and indicators

Looking at acids

Bases and salts

Preparing copper sulphate

Alkalis and balancing equations

Investigating neutralisation

Alkalis and neutralisation

Reactions of acids with metals and carbonates Solubility


Do some research into acids, alaklis and indicators, to describe each one.

Research what neutralisation is?


Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Physics P1 Motion

What is the difference between vectors & scalars?

How do you calculate speed and velocity?

How do you represent journeys on distance/time and speed/time graphs?

How do you calculate speed, acceleration and distance travelled?


Go on YouTube and watch the following videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijJ4EtTBi0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NhnaKToP1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLH-9W0oxQ

Unit 1 (D) Black and white illustration

Students will: Develop observational recording skills using a wide variety of techniques and materials. Produce a sketchbook which includes; exploring mono tone mark making, researching and responding to artists who work in black & white techniques and trialling experimental development. Design and create an abstract composition based on their sketchbook work.


Students can also select from the following activities to support the Black & white unit of work:

1) Explore the illustrations of David Bray, Ralph

Steadman and the graphic comic art of the Sin City.

2) Select a range of inspiring images, write down how the

images inspire you and then draw your version on the

images.

3) Now, using magazines and the internet start collecting

further inspiring examples of black & white

illustrations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijJ4EtTBi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NhnaKToP1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLH-9W0oxQ

CAMBRIDGE NATIONAL BUSINESS

R065 Design a Business Proposal (Project worth 25% of overall GCSE)

Students will complete the final part of the project: Task 5: Be able to review whether a business proposal is viable (18 marks). This task involves students completing a break even analysis and risk analysis on their product proposal before making a final evaluation of their products viability. Once this is complete we use the remainder of the half term to complete any support and intervention work as appropriate.


Students should research break even analysis. A good place to start is GCSE Bitesize Business. Go to the Finance unit and you will see Break even readers and activities which students should attempt.

Complete the first unit then move onto the second. Unit 3: People

Students will learn why businesses need people and how businesses develop their workforce. The core topics are as follows:

The role of human resources

Organisational structures and different ways of working

Communication in business

Recruitment and selection

Motivation and retention

Training and development

Employment law


Students should interview a member of their family or someone who has a job. They need to find out how that person got the job, how they applied, what happened during the interview, what questions were they asked etc. They should also get some advice from the person in employment as to what they feel employers find important when recruiting.


DT GCSE Material Focus: Metals and Timbers

Wooden storage

● Manufacturing the Wooden storage. ● Planning for manufacture ● Evaluation.


What does the word amplification mean? What are sound waves? What makes them stop?

Continue with UNIT 2 L01: nutritional importance of planning meals L02: menu planning L03: Practical work

Students will focus their theory and practical tasks on protein foods such as fish and meat, to understand the relationship between diet and health. To be able to apply and demonstrate an understanding of handling, storing and cooking meat and fish to prevent food poisoning. Some practical outcomes will be chicken goujons, fish pie and burgers


Research the 4 types of fresh fish cuts, naming suitable fish for each type. Explain how to prepare each cut.

Customs and Festivals

Students will be learning to understand, discuss and write about customs and festivals which are important to France and other French speaking countries. They will also discuss some current affairs in French to help them become more aware of the world around them, and to spontaneously express their views in the target language. By now students should be using at least 4 tenses in spoken and written French with varying degrees of competency.


Use the internet to search for customs and festivals in France. Write 10 sentences about them in French. Use 4 tenses.

Use www.memrise.com and www.quizlet.com to revise vocab for these topics.

Ecosystems

Tropical rainforests show a range of distinguishing features. Tropical Rainforest ecosystems provide a range of goods and services some of which are under threat. Deciduous woodlands show a range of distinguishing features. Deciduous Woodlands ecosystems provide a range of goods and services some of which are under threat.

http://www.memrise.com/

http://www.quizlet.com/


1. Visit the bbc bitesize website to identify key features of the Tropical Rainforest http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zscsmnb/revision

2. Explain why the Deciduous Woodland is under threat - produce a mind map to show this

My studies and life at school/college

Students will give opinions on school subjects, look at school timetables and revise telling the time. They will be able to describe their school, uniform and teachers and use reflexive verbs to discuss their school day. They will study compartatives and superlatives, modal verbs complex structures.


1. Go on https://quizlet.com/ and learn school subjects and school related vocabulary.

2. Go online to www.languagesonline.org.uk , click on ‘Deutsch’, then scroll down to ‘Wie spät ist es?’ and complete the activities on telling the time.

Chocolate Project Vacuum forming The wooden mould.

Students will design, using isometric and manufacture a wooden chocolate mould for their new product. This will then be vacuum formed ready to simulate mass produced chocolate manufacture.


What is injection moulding and how is it different to vacuum forming?

Elizabethan England c1568- 1603. Elizabeth and her government.

Students will continue to develop an understanding of Elizabethan times, looking at whether or not there was an Elizabethan cultural ‘Golden Age’, the poor and Elizabethan exploration. AQA question techniques will continue to be developed, both in relation to source analysis question types and those that require the recall of information.


● Why was Hardwick Hall so significant? Research the key features of Hardwick Hall

● Take a tour of Shakespeare’s globe theatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zscsmnb/revision

https://quizlet.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI ● Why were people so fearful of poverty during Elizabethan

times? Research how the Elizabethan’s viewed poverty.

Websites

Understand how to design and build a website


Go to http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/software/web_design/miniweb/index.htm and read through the mini website to understand the main features of a website

Film Promotion Magazines

Continuing with work from first half term – see above


Revise the work we did at the beginning of Yr 10 on Magazines – particularly the Codes and Conventions of covers.

Find a range of magazines covers on Google Images and think about how they use MEDIA LANGUAGE like images, colour, font style, layout, coverlines. Think about how this language is used to both represent the people featured on the cover and to target their intended audiences.

Composing Listening Performing

Complete work on structure and use of instruments Consolidate work on Structure and use of instruments – learning vocab and doing listening tests Students can add to the recordings during this half term if they have pieces ready, but lesson time will concentrate on Composition and Listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI

http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/software/web_design/miniweb/index.htm

http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/software/web_design/miniweb/index.htm


Preparation for Controlled Assessment for Composition 1

Componant 1: Devising coursework 40% of qualification

Pupils to continue to develop their devised piece of theatre including practitioner techniques. Whilst creating a portfolio of the creative process. Pupils will take part in workshops based around several practitioners:

● Stanislavski ● Brecht ● Artaud

They will then apply these techniques and skills to allow them to develop their piece further. Allowing them to finalise the piece through rehearsal. Pupils will then be formally assessed towards the end of spring term or beginning of the summer term.


● Research key Drama practitioners such as Stanislavski, Brecht and Artaud gaining an understanding of their practical influences.

● View devised theatre companies such as Geko or Punch drunk.

● Go and see original live theatre- venues such as North stage or LIVE in Newcastle both have regular showings of original work.

Girls Making Informed decisions about a fit and healthy lifestyle Boys follow football and fitness units

Choosing pathways for Learning . Students will begin to discuss with staff how they see their pathway for learning developing. Peer leaders help in the construction of two pathways from which students will choose the one most appropriate for them. Developing the game further, examining different roles within the team, developing tactics, identifying strengths and weaknesses and suggesting ways to improve. Providing opportunity for peer/self-assessment


Religion, peace and conflict.

Students will learn the key concepts within the topic and then discuss whether it is ever necessary to go to war. They will then apply Christian and Buddhist teachings to the concept of war, focusing on nuclear weapons and the Just War theory.


1. List 5 reasons why a country may go to war. 2. Research 3 different types of war. 3. Research a definition of ‘Just War’ and then pick a Christian

and Buddhist teaching which contradicts the idea of a Just War.

Customs and Festivals

Students will learn about a variety of customs/festivals in the Spanish speaking world. The focus will be discussing events and traditions in the past tense. Students will learn the formation of the preterite and imperfect tenses and develop their skills for the photo card element of the speaking exam.


www.quizlet.com- sign up to quizlet using your email address and create a quiz with the vocabulary you have learnt from the topics studied so far. You can also download this as an app if you wish. Use your quiz to revise the new vocabulary.

2. Research a festival in Spain. When does it happen? What are the details? Make notes in the back of your book.

Theory Principles of training Practical Coursework Groups will cover those activities not already

Be aware of the acronym SPORT. Understand training thresholds and aerobic and anaerobic training zones Badminton or table tennis continued

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assessed.


Healthy Eating and reasons for looking after yourself.

Knowledge of

Health diet and lifestyle

Why staying health in body and mind is important

How to stay healthy

Skills:

Making good choices.

Practical cooking.

Literacy and numeracy skills.

Effective peer support.

Research

Discussion

Effective planning

Continue with: Interpersonal and Self -Management skills

Students will learn:

The importance of self-management.

Time management

Managing stress.

Review own interpersonal stress

Begin with: Presentation Skills

Students will learn: Purpose of Presentations. Prepare and present a presentation. Review their own Presentation skills.


Focused Practical Task 3

To gain an understanding of the characteristics, processes, application and advantages/ disadvantages of ICT in the design, development, marketing and sales of textiles products. Students will apply this knowledge and understanding to design and make task. To gain an understanding of environmental issues and the impact it has on the fashion industry. Students will research, design and manufacture a decorative textile accessory using recycled materials.


Sketch, photograph, collect as many images as you can of styles of t-shirts and different placement print designs on t-shirts.

Documents

Subject Topics to be Key Learning covered · Elizabethan England c1568- 1603. Elizabeth and her government. Students will continue to develop an understanding of Elizabethan times,