Curriculum – Year 8 Common Entrance

SUBJECT AUTUMN TERM SPRING TERM SUMMER TERM
 
ENGLISH
  • Prose
  • Extracts/Short Stories
  • Poetry Skills
  • Travel Writing
  • Essays
  • Argue, Persuade, Review
  • General Poetry
  • Exam Preparation Individualised
  • Drama/Shakespeare
GEOGRAPHY
  • Erosion and weathering. Geography project
  • Geography project. Italy / Japan as a case study for more economically developed country.
  • Revision questions for Common Entrance.
HISTORY
  • The Protestant Reformation
  • Henry’s divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn
  • Supreme Head and Dissolution of Monasteries including Pilgrimage of Grace
  • Revision on Peasant’s Revolt
  • Henry’s later years.
  • Edward VI – religious policy, protectors, death, Northumberland V Mary
  • Mary I – religious changes, marriage, rebellion, Turn or Burn, John Foxe
  • Revision for final examination
SCIENCE
  • Electricity
  • Light and Sound
  • Metals II
  • The Earth and Beyond
  • Cells and Microscopes
  • Health
  • Structured Revision
  • Sturctured Revision
RS
  • New Testament – Jesus’ teaching  * Jesus’ life, death and resurrection  * Revision + Topic 
LATIN
  • Future tense.
  • EO – to go.
  • Quamquam and ubi clauses.
  • Demonstrative adjectives.
  • Third person pronouns.
  • Comparison of adjectives.
  • Prohibitions.
  • Reflexive pronouns.
  • CE practice
  • Revision.
MATHEMATICS
  • Angles and polygons
  • Parallel lines
  • Naming angles
  • Polygons
  • Sum of interior angles of a polygon
  • Finding the interior angle of a regular polygon
  • Finding angles in a polygon
  • Circles
  • Area Semi circles and quadrants
  • Circumference
  • Significant figures
  • Straight line graphs
  • Graphs parallel to the axes
  • Straight lines nor parallel to the axes
  • Substituting negative numbers
  • Transformations
  • Reflection
  • Rotation
  • Translation and vectors
  • Mixed transformations
  • Ratio and enlargement
  • Ratio
  • Simplifying the ratio
  • Ratio as a fraction
  • Scale drawing
  • Ratio and enlargement
  • Using scale
  • Ration and enlargement
  • Enlargement on a grid
  • Drawing the enlargement
  • Revision for CE
  • Past papers
  • Mixed exercises
  • Revision for CE
  • Past papers
MUSIC
  • Impressionism (how music ‘paints pictures’). We look at various visual and text based resources and use combinations of musical elements to convey the mood and story behind chosen stimuli.
  • Blues & Jazz (this project focuses on a social and cultural study of the black people of America and the music that evolved from the spiritual and gospel to the blues and jazz).
  • Form & Structure (How composers organise their musical ideas. Pupils listen and compose music in ‘rondo’, ‘binary’ and ‘ternary’ form).
PE
  • Basketball in the sports hall.
  • Swimming
  • Invasion games, health related fitness with small-sided games in sports hall
  • Swimming
  • Athletics
GAMES
  • Rugby (boys)
  • Hockey (girls)
  • Hockey (boys)
  • Netball (girls)
  • Cricket (boys)
  • Rounders (girls)
ICT
  • Gathering/creating evidence to put towards an ISEB certificate of achievement in ICT
  • Gathering/creating evidence to put towards an ISEB certificate of achievement in ICT
Some or all of the following small units:

  • Alternatives to windows operating systems
  • Viruses and spyware
  • Make a PC
ART
  • Lino printing – black and white designs.
  • Christmas card – drawings of the school.
  • Clay and modroc 3D projects
  • Art History projects on life of some prominent sculptors
  • Clay and modroc 3D projects
  • Art History projects on life of some prominent sculptors
DT
  • A ‘whole year’ final project, ‘design and make something worthwhile, something which you will be proud of’.
  • Generate ideas and prepare design folders.
  • Experiment on materials.
  • Manufacture of chosen design.
  • Manufacture of chosen design (continued and continuing into Summer term).
  • Manufacture of chosen design (continued).
  • Presentation of design folders.
  • Evaluation of end product.
FRENCH Topics

  • Holiday activities
  • Weather
  • Free-time activities
  • Understanding tourist information
Topics

  • Simple health problems
  • Shopping and pocket money
  • Visiting a café or restaurant
Topics

  • Environment
  • Revision
  • Cultural awareness
Grammar & Language

  • Perfect tense with AVOIR and ETRE
  • Imperfect tense (recognition)
  • Near future revision
  • Letter writing
Grammar & Language

  • Idiomatic expressions with AVOIR (eg. avoir mal)
  • Partitive (and de / d’ with quantity and negatives)
  • Demonstratives
  • Infinitive after “il faut”, vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, etc..
Grammar & Language

  • Present participle (en + ——ant)
  • Revision
Speaking Preparation

  • Free-time and holiday activities – TOPIC 4
  • Role play practice
Speaking Preparation

  • Prepared topic (description of town, region, artist, celebration, historical figure or sportsman)
  • Role play practice
Speaking Preparation

  • Weekly Common Entrance speaking practice with individual feedback
  • Intensive role play practice
Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet Weekly vocabulary tests – ISEB French vocab booklet
PSHE  Myself & Relationships

  • Managing change – incl visit by Senior School Head
  • Making the most of my abilities – target setting etc.
  • Myself as a learner – styles, considering others etc.

 

 

Health

  • Drug & Alcohol Education
  • Sex Education and relationships
  • Keeping Safe

 

 

Citizenship

  • Britain and the wider world
  • Post CE Programme to incl link with local Special School & awareness of finance
  • Careers and options – visiting speaker
  • Managing Finance
  • Media & Presenting Information
  • Awareness of finance, responsibility and careers through use of The Real Game