| Subject | Topics that will form the focus of learning for year 9 this half-term. | Topics that will form the focus of learning for year 10 this half-term | Topics that will form the focus of learning for year 11 this half-term | Topics that will form the focus of learning for year 12 this half-term. | Topics that will form the focus of learning for year 13 this half-term. |
| Animal care | In the class room we will be looking at animal health which students will be examined on at the end of y11. On the farm students will be concentrating on animal accommodation which will form part of their controlled assessment in October | ||||
| Applied Science | Students will be revising for their external exam in May as well as completing course work on The Digestive System and Scientific Procedures | ||||
| Art | Decorative Arts, natural form drawing, finalising and developing work into a variety of outcomes. Building critical responses to Artist work and techniques. | Decorative styles informed by Artist research, Media and experimentation combining drawing and selected processes, composing and devising multiple designs and drawings into complex sheets encompassing all assessment objectives | All Year 11s are completing preparation for their personally determined, current exam unit (started in February- worth 40% of overall grade) which they are working towards completing and refining following exam guides and examples- in the build up for their 10 hour 2-day exam following Easter. | Personal Project development and experimentation informed by research and inspiration from relevant artists for each students’ chosen theme. Applying skills and techniques from prescriptive elements of work into personal investigations. Increasing level of refinement in written responses and approach to exploring new sets and directions in work | All Year 13s are completing preparation for their personally determined, current exam unit (started in January-worth 40% of overall grade) which they are working towards completing and refining following exam guides and examples- in the build up for their 15 hour 3-day exam following Easter |
| Biology | Organ systems including the circulatory system and respiratory system. Non-communicable diseases including cardiovascular disease. | Ecology, including sampling techniques, biodiversity and the impact of humans on the environment. | Students will be completing the work on variation, evolution and classification, and then focusing on revision and practice of key content. | Students will be completing the work on mass transport systems and immunity. | Students will be looking at statistical tests before focusing on revision and practice of key content. |
| BTEC Sport | Unit 2 – Performing, Coaching and Officiating in Team Sports | Component 3 – Leadership Coursework | Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry | Unit 5 – Fitness Testing | |
| Business | Mrs Major – 1.4 Making the Business Effective (Ownership, Location, Marketing Mix & Business Plans) Mr Graham & Mrs Hadfield – 1.5 External Influences (Stakeholders, Technology, Legislation, Economy) | 11A & B: Human Resources & Marketing 11C: Human Resources & Growth 11D: Growth | Mr Graham: Unit 5 Finance Mrs Major: Unit 6 Human Resources | Revision: To include Elasticity, Strategic Models, Investment Appraisal | |
| Chemistry | Chemistry of the Atmosphere followed by Exothermic and Endothermic reactions. | Using Resources and Sustainable living | Electrolysis and Exam Preparation | Equilibria followed by Organic Chemistry | Exam Preparation |
| Child Development | Component 2: Learning Through Play | Adapt play to promote inclusive learning and development/ Revision | |||
| Computing and IT | Parts of a computer, network hardware and network topologies. | Finishing networking and data representation. Starting data sizes and devices. | Both IT and Computer Science will focus on revision and exam techniques before the exams. | N/A | N/A |
| Design and Technology/ Food and Nutrition | Food and Nutrition: Year 9 are looking at raising agents, Healthy Eating, Food preparation Health and Hygiene. Graphic Products: Pupils are adding graphics designed on Corel Draw 11 onto their bags for their Cafe Project. Use of colour, font, imagery, layout of Corporate images. Resistant Materials: All students are modelling working prototypes of their salt and pepper shakers. Use of machinery and equipment within the workshop. | Food and Nutrition: This is an outline of what Y10 will be doing after half term. Continue to look at meat and its nutritional value. We will be cooking a salmon dish with guidance from the ‘Fish in Schools Heros’, a scheme that aims to educate school children in cooking and eating fish. We will be moving onto our last food commodity which is Beans, nuts and seeds, soya, tofu and Mycoprotein. Towards the end of the term we will be looking at what to expect from NEA1 and NEA2 next year. Design and Technology: Graphic Products are using CAD to develop net designs and are assembling and modelling their Chocolate Box Designs on Corel Draw 11. Resistant Materials will be completing Traditional Wood joints, finishing off practical manufacture of storage box and finishing timbers. Theory work will related to the introduction of NEA due to begin in the second half of the summer term. | All year 11 students will be completing NEA work and preparing for written examinations in the summer term. Past papers, revision and techniques will be a main focus. | All year 12 students will completing practical manufacture of their working prototype Lighting Project. Along side this NEA work will be ongoing in the form of Product Analysis, Product Comparison, Moodboards and research to gain information to enable students to begin writing their own Specification for their chosen project. | All year 13 students will be completing NEA work and preparing for written examinations in the summer term. Past papers, revision and techniques will be a main focus. |
| Drama | Live Theatre review. The National Theatre Production of Peter Pan will be viewed in lessons and evaluated for Acting and technical Theatre. | 1.Completion of devised performance and development of portfolio draft one. 2. Introduction to DNA (set text) | Revision of DNA and Live Theatre review for component 3 written exam. | Introduction to That Face by Polly Stenham (component 3) | Revision of component 3 Live Theatre Review (Othello) That Face by Polly Stenham Antigone and Brecht |
| English Language / Literature | 1) Shakespeare shorts: study of a range of extracts from Shakespeare plays. Focus on understanding language and applying context. 2) Poetry: study of a range of contemporary poems, exploring and emulating writers’ methods. | English Language Paper Two skills: focusing particularly on the 16 mark Q4, and the 40 mark Q5 An Inspector Calls: introducing the text and its historical, social and political contexts. | English Language exam preparation: refining and securing skills and techniques for the two Language papers. Particularly focusing on Paper 1 Q4; Paper 2 Q2 and 4, and written accuracy for both Q5s. English Literature exam preparation: will vary depending on class needs, but likely to focus on reviewing and consolidating prior study of An Inspector Calls and A Christmas Carol. | English Language: Completion of travel writing NEA, and introduction to occupational variation (Diversity component) English Literature: Completion of ‘Othello’ and ‘Atonement.’ Introduction of NEA and unseen poetry ahead of mock exams. | English Language: Reviewing and consolidating topic areas for Paper 2, particularly applying knowledge to different question types. Reviewing and consolidating skills of unseen analysis, in preparation for Paper 1. English Literature: Reviewing and consolidating exam texts and skills, ahead of examinations. |
| Forensic science | Students will be looking at the ways to extract DNA from cells leading up to a visit to Keele University in July where they will be carrying out a practical involving genetic fingerprinting. They will also be looking at the legal framework surrounding the treatment of forensic evidence with a view to presenting this evidence in a mock trial | ||||
| Further Mathematics | Introduction to Level 2 Further Mathematics | Targeted revision bespoke to the needs of the group, Practice exam papers. | Core Pure – Proof, Calculus; Further Mechanics – Elastic Collisions in One Dimension | Further Mechanics – Elastic Collisions in Two Dimensions. Targeted revision bespoke to the needs of the group, Practice exam papers. | |
| Geography | Continuing with Development and Globalisation before moving swiftly into a topic all about India. | Completion of changing economic world before looking at GCSE fieldwork and a module on the skills around fieldwork. | Completion of resource management topic, and then the issue evaluation of the GCSE examination, before revision will start. | Completion of the Water topic, whilst also starting to prepare for the non-examined assessment and the Liverpool residential field trip. | All of the course has now been completed. With all students having guided revision through lessons from this point on. |
| Health & Social Care | Component 2: Health and Social Care Services and Values | Completion of component 2 coursework / revision for Component 3: Health and Wellbeing | Single Award & Triple Award: Unit 5: Meeting individual support needs Triple Award: Unit 18: Assessing Children’s Development and Unit 6: Work Experience | Single Award & Triple Award: Unit 14: Physiological disorders Triple Award: Unit 18: Assessing Children’s Development and Unit 6: Work Experience | |
| History | The extent of the success of the United Nations in preventing war and genocide post 1945 | Completion of learning about the Normanisation of England; America 1835 – 1861 | Revision of the GCSE content | Introduction to the Non Examined Assessment and the reign of Henry VIII | Revision of the A level content |
| Mathematics | Foundation – Ratio and Proportion, Basic Probability, Scatter Graphs Higher – Circumference & Area of Circles, Ratio and proportion, Basic Probability | Foundation – Further Circumference & Area of Circles, Simultaneous Equations, Properties of Polygons Higher – Further Probability, Statistical Graphs, Introduction to Quadratics | Targeted revision bespoke to the needs of each group, Practice exam papers. | Pure – Integration, Exponentials and Logarithms; Statistics – Statistical Distributions; Mechanics – Forces and Motion | Pure – Vectors, Mechanics – Applications of Forces, Further Kinematics. Targeted revision bespoke to the needs of each group, Practice exam papers. |
| Music | Musicals Performance Skills | Area of Study 2 Concerto through time; Classical and Romantic Music | Music Coursework supporting written work. Practice listening questions on all 4 Areas of Study to prepare for the written exam in June. | Composition in the style of a Bach Chorale. ‘Petals’ by Kaija Saariaho ‘Estampes’ by Debussy | Composition in the style of a Bach Chorale. ‘Petals’ by Kaija Saariaho ‘Estampes’ by Debussy |
| PE | Athletics | Athletics | Athletics | Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry | Fitness Testing |
| Physics | Energy and Circuits | Waves | Revision and Exam Preparation | Quantum Physics, Energy and Newtonian Mechanics | Revision and Exam Preparation |
| Psychology | Approaches in Psychology and Attachment | Issues & Debates/ Revision | |||
| RE | Animal ethics | Crime and punishment | Revision of Religion (paper 1) | Christianity | |
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