Key stage 3
English – Year 7/8
Autumn Term 1: Autobiography – Boy
Reading:
- identifying features of autobiographical writing
- identifying language and structual devices
- analysing how language & structure conveys meaning
- viewpoint
Writing:
- viewpoint
- autobiographical writing style
- SPaG
Autumn Term 2: introduction to Shakespeare
- identifying themes
- understanding social, cultural & historical context in which the texts wer written
- understanding plot and characterisation
Spring Term 1: Myths & legends
Reading:
- identifying features of the genre
- identifying language and structual devices
- analysing how language & structure conveys meaning
Writing:
- writing myths
- language devices/techniques
- SPaG
Spring Term 2: Poetry
- exploring different types of poetry
- identifying language devices
- analysing how language & structure conveys meaning
Summer Term 1: Non fiction
- Types of non-fiction
- Target audience & purpose
- identifying features
- writing non-fiction texts
- language devices/techniques
- SPaG
Summer Term 2: Literacy heritage-extracts from the works of famous 19 century authors
- identifying themes
- understanding social, culture & historical context in which the texts were written
- analysing how language & structure conveys meaning
English – Year 9
Autumn 1: Of Mice and Men
Reading:
- identifying key themes
- identifying language and structural devices
- understanding social, historical context in which the text was written
- analysing how language &structure conveys meaning
Autumn 2: Genre study
Creative and narrative writing
- language device/techniques
- SPaG
Spring 1:Non-fiction writing
- writing prose
- viewpoint
- SPaG
Spring 2: Poetry
- exploring different types of poetry
- identifying language devices
- identifying themes
- analysing how language &structure conveys meaning
Summer 1:19th Century prose-Extracts: Oliver Twist, Frankenstein, Hound of the Baskervilles
- identifying themes
- understanding social, cultural & historical context in which the texts were written
- analysing how language &structure conveys meaning
Summer 2: Introduction to Shakespeare’s language
- identifying themes
- understanding social, cultural & historical context
- analysing how language &structure conveys meaning
Maths – Year 7/8
Autumn 1:
- place value number operations (Integers)
- decimals: ordering, rounding and approx.
- 4 operations with decimals
- money problems
- metric units of length and weight
Autumn 2:
- perimeter and area of simple shapes.
- problem solving
- basic fractions: fraction and decimal equivalence
Spring 1:
- measuring and drawing angles
- properties of shape: symmetries, tessellations properties of shape: symmetries, tessellations
- Venn and Carroll diagrams
Spring 2:
- time and timetables
- mode and range,bar charts, pie charts,questionnaires
Summer 1:
- coords in all 4 quads
- →2 D shapes
- directed nos + and –
- algebraic notation
- collecting like terms
Summer 2:
- number patterns – including F & D, square and triangle nos
- exams
- review
- catch up
Maths – Year 9
Autumn 1:
- basic Number: BIDMAS, Directed nos.
- factors, Multiples
- angles: facts and //
- algebra: substitution
- expanding and factorising
Autumn 2:
- fractions
- coords and linear graphs
- basic percentages
- interchanging F,D & %
- assessment and review
Spring 1:
- sequences
- perimeter and area
- problem solving
- (scale diagrams and bearings)
Spring 2:
- the circle
- ratio and proportion
- basic probability
- assessment
Summer 1:
- equations -simple
- scatter graphs
- transformations
- review of number
Summer 2:
- pythagoras
- compound units
- reciprocals
- recurring decimals
- exams
- review
Science – Year 7/8
(Green group)
Autumn
- food & digestion
- respiration
- earth & space
- separating mixtures
- the periodic tableT
Spring
- reproduction & puberty
- acids & alkalis
- cells, tissues, organs and systems
Summer
- adaptations
- ecosystems
- humans and the environment
- review of year and examinations
Science – Year 9
(Red group)
Autumn
- energy transfer
- unicellular organisms
- muscles and bones
- combustion
Spring
- forces & motion
- fluids
- making materials
- electricity
- light
Summer
- photosynthesis
- earth and space
- review of key stage 3
- end of year examination
- preparation for GCSE