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YEAR 9

Schemes of Work

Summary

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CONTENTS

Art and Design 3

Biology 4

Chemistry 5

Computer Science 6

Drama 7

English 8

French 9

Geography 10

History 11

Latin 12

Mathematics 13

Music 14

Physical Education 15

Physics 16

Religious Philosophy 17

Spanish 18

Technology 19/20

Food and Nutrition / Textile Technology

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ART AND DESIGN

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Famous Female Painters

Combined Truro Schools Art Project

All schools working to a common theme

Workshop visits to other schools

Key Information:

Painting revision. Critical awareness of famous art and research skills

Theme agreed by group of schools:

Extended painting skills, advanced colour mixing

Extended drawing skills

Critical studies—awareness of art history

Sustained development of ideas in preparation for GCSE options

Aiming for large group piece/pieces of work

Lent Term

Topics:

Continuation of Combined Schools Project

Key Information:

Exhibition of work at the Lander Gallery in March

Summer Term

Topics:

Pop Art and Subversive images

Exam Project

Key Information:

Emphasis on Critical Studies, cultural awareness and feminism. Production of a graphic style final piece for the art exhibition, using photography and collage.

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BIOLOGY

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Genes and Inheritance

Key Information:

Inheritance of characteristics

Where genetic information is found in cells

Genetic diseases

Environmental variation

Cloning

Lent Term

Topics:

Fitness and Health

Key Information:

What fitness means

Breathing

The effects of smoking

Diet and deficiency diseases

The effect of drugs

Muscles and movement

Summer Term

Topics:

Farming

Key Information:

Photosynthesis

Leaf structure

Transport systems in plants

Crop farming (including the use of fertilisers and pesticides, hormones and sprays)

Farming problems

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CHEMISTRY

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Metals

Key Information:

Properties of metals

Chemical reactions

Word equations

Reactions of metals and metal compounds with different acids

Salts

Catalysts

Lent Term

Topics:

Reactivity of metals

Key Information:

Chemical reactions

Word equations

Reactivity series

Displacement reactions

Extraction of metals

Oxidation and reduction

Group I metals

Group II metals

Summer Term

Topics:

Environmental Chemistry

Key Information:

Greenhouse effect

Ozone layer

Acid rain

Climate change

Soil samples

Lake samples

Titrations

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COMPUTER SCIENCE

Miichaelmas Term: Coding and Computational Thinking Part Three

Topics:

Revise selections and iteration (loops)

Creating a test plan

The ability to produce a completed more complex program

Key Information: Understanding design techniques and putting them into practice in their coding

Planning out a program

The production of appropriate code

Testing and evaluating a complete program A controlled assessment will be taken over the final three weeks of the module.

Lent Term: Access database development

Topics:

Understanding basic database concepts and termi-nology

Learn how to use Access

Key Information:

Understand the meaning of: files, records, fields, field lengths, field types, tables, queries, forms, reports and navigation menus

Understand the concept of relationships be-tween tables and how this promotes storage efficiency by reducing redundancy

Learn how to: create tables, create relationships, build queries, develop forms and reports, create a navigation menu

Summer Term: Access database development continued

Topics::

Learn how to write test plan

Learn how to build a free-standing application

Create and test a database system A controlled assessment will be taken over the final three weeks of the module

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DRAMA

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Slavery

Kidnap

Hot-seating

Key Information:

Exaggerated gesture

Improvisation

Consolidation of skills

Tableaux

Thought-tracking

‘This way / that way’

Lent Term

Topics:

Story telling

Extracts from ‘Fences,’ by August Wilson

Disability

Key Information:

Story telling

Atmosphere

Cross-cutting

Hot-seating

Forum theatre

Mantle of the expert

Character research

Summer Term

Topics:

Extracts from ‘Fences,’ by August Wilson (cont.)

‘The Devil’ (Jonathon Cocks)

Key Information:

Timing

Voice

Consolidation of skills

Tension

Narration

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ENGLISH

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

A pre and/or post 1914 novel

Creative writing

Key Information:

This year aims to prepare pupils for GCSE They will discuss and write about the following as-pects: character development, theme, social/cultural/historical influences, style and language

Developing analytical skills and skills in producing different types of writing

Lent Term

Topics:

Poetry post-1914 (and comparative worn)

Non-fiction writing

Debates and presentations

Language study including creative writing, spoken word and language change

Key Information:

To study poetry from our literary heritage and de-velop an appreciation of narrative style and com-paring two poems

Non-fiction writing will include: persuasive lan-guage, bias, travel writing, diaries and journals

Study of media articles and iconic speeches can include discussion and debate on topical subjects, as well as individual presentations. It will also focus on bias and writing for an audience

The language study involves students exploring language changing over time, influence of technol-ogy on language and how it can be shaped for dif-ferent purposes

Summer Term

Topics:

A complete play by Shakespeare, likely to be ‘Twelfth Night’

Speaking and listening aspects such as role play and performance

Extract analysis and essay writing (close language analysis)

Key Information:

Fostering an enjoyment of the play for its themes, characterisation, dramatic potential and quality of the language

An internal assessment to be completed about an extract of the play in a GCSE style essay

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FRENCH

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Personality traits

Relationships with family & friends

Talking about music

Talking about clothes

Talking about your passions

Describing where you live

Describing your home

Talking about meals

Discussing what food to buy

Talking about an event

Key Information:

Adjectival agreements

Reflexive verbs

Agreeing and disagreeing

The near future tense revised

Past, present and future tenses

Making comparisons

Prepositions

Verbs boire and prendre

Use of il faut

Using three tenses

Lent Term

Topics:

Talent and ambition

Talent contests

Encouraging or persuading someone

Rehearsing for a contest

Saying who is best, the most, the least

Showing how much you can do with the French language

Key Information:

Infinitives and the verb vouloir

Being the judge

Pouvoir and devoir

Using the imperative / commands

Superlative adjectives

Using a variety of structures and tenses

Summer Term

Topics:

Completion of all units

Revision of all grammar points covered in Year 9

Revision for summer exam

Cultural project – French person, a place or a French film

Key Information:

Revision list and lessons

Presentation of project chosen by student

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GEOGRAPHY

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

The challenge of natural hazards and tectonic haz-ards

Urban issues and challenges

Key Information:

Defining types of natural hazards and factors af-fecting hazard risk

Plate tectonics theory

Global distribution of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Tectonic hazards

Global patter of urban change

The emergence of megacities

Case study of a major city in the developing world eg Rio de Janeiro

Distribution of population and the major cities in the UK

Lent Term

Topics:

Urban issues and challenges continued

Climate change: Global and UK focus

An overview of the major upland, lowland and river systems of the UK

Key Information:

Case study of urban change in the UK eg Bristol

Management of resources and transport to ensure urban sustainability

Natural and human factors in causing climate change

Managing climate change through mitigation and adaption

An overview of the major upland, lowland and riv-er systems of the UK

Summer Term

Topics:

Coastal landscapes in the UK

Revision

Key Information:

Physical processes that shape the coast

Coastal landforms

Management of strategies to protect coastlines

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HISTORY

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

The role of the individual for good or ill? Napole-on Bonaparte

Key Information:

Placing new information on Bonaparte in the con-text of existing knowledge about the French Revo-lution, pupils analyse the role of the individual in history and assess how far they can change the course of history

Lent Term

Topics:

The British Empire: How was it that by 1900 Britain controlled nearly a quarter of the world?

Key Information:

Understanding the main reasons for the develop-ment of the British Empire

Building on work on the importance of trade and industry

Developing an awareness of different interpre-tations and representations of Britain’s imperial past

Summer Term

Topics:

Depth study of Britain and the First World War

Key Information:

Building on knowledge of imperialism and interna-tional rivalry to understand how conflict devel-oped

Understanding trench warfare, stalemate and total war and fighting on different fronts

How Britain was changed by the experience of the war

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LATIN

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Alexandria

Glass

Roman Egypt

Isis

Science and Medicine

Key Information:

Genitive case

Pronouns

Imperatives

Present participle

Lent Term

Topics:

Roman Bath

Roman religion

Roman roads

Roman soldiers

Key Information:

Perfect passive participle

Perfect active participle

cum and subjunctive

Indirect questions

Purpose clauses

Summer Term

Topics:

Roman army

Fortresses

Key Information:

Indirect commands

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MATHEMATICS

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Indices and Standard Form

Fractions and percentages

Linear graphs and equations

Probability

Key Information: Conditional probability y=mx+c Parallel and perpendicular lines

Lent Term

Topics:

Transformations

Area, perimeter and volume

Algebraic manipulation

Key Information:

Fractions and percentages

Two events

Changing the subject

Factorising quadratic equations

Summer Term

Topics:

Trigonometry

Cumulative frequency

Graphs, equations and inequalities

Quadratic functions

Angles, constructions and Loci

Key Information:

Pythagoras

Sine, cosine and tangent for right angled trian-gles

Averages from a table

Linea inequalities

Drawing, quadratic, cubic & reciprocal graphs

Completing the square

Solving quadratic equations

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MUSIC

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Baroque Performance, listening and composition

Minimalism Exploring motifs and polyrhythms

Key Information:

1600-1750

Ornamentation

Canon

Pachelbel

Vivaldi

Handel

Four part harmony

Sibelius

Cyclic rhythms

Polyrhythms

Structure

Transformation

Music and Art

Lent Term

Topics:

Music for Film

Composition and performance

Key Information:

Atmosphere and mood

Storyboard

Cue sheet

Leitmotif

Adverts/jingles

Sci-fi / Horror / Western

Action

Soundtrack

Hit-points

Orchestration

Sibelius

Piano techniques

Garageband

Summer Term

Topics:

Popular Song

Exploring repertoire, arrangements and perfor-mance

Key Information:

Musical arrangement

Covers

Structure

Textures

Recording techniques

Music technology

Digital effects

Ensemble techniques

Re-Harmonisation

Key change

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Michaelmas Term

Topics: Tutor group lessons will consist of:

Fitness

Badminton

Football Year group lessons will consist of:

Hockey

Netball

Key Information:

Sports are taught in blocks of 6-8 weeks

Lent Term

Topics: Tutor group lessons will consist of:

Tag Rugby

Principles of Invasion Games Year group lessons will consist of:

Swimming

Trampolining

Key Information:

Year group lessons are taught in ability groups and the groups change activities at the end of their block

Summer Term

Topics: Tutor group lessons will consist of:

Athletics

Rounders Year group lessons will consist of:

Athletics

Rounders

Key Information:

The summer term is very short in length and athlet-ics takes a long time to teach individual events to a high standard, hence its inclusion in both lessons. From the two lessons one will be rounders and one will be athletics to give the pupils variety in the week

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PHYSICS

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Energy

Key Information: Energy stores and energy transfer Conservation of energy and misconceptions Energy transfer and efficiency Investigating motor efficiency Generating electricity Nuclear power versus alternatives Voltage and energy Electrical power

Lent Term

Topics:

Motion

Key Information:

Calculation of speed

Interpretation of distance versus time graphs

Interpretation of velocity versus time graphs

Calculating speed and acceleration from motion graphs above

Investigating and calculating acceleration; linking to Newton’s Second Law

Summer Term

Topics:

Pressure and moments

Key Information:

Principle of moments

Investigating and calculating turning moments

Pressure

Hydraulic machines

The solar system, asteroids, comets and other Near Earth Objects (NEOs), the scale and structure of the universe

Satellites and orbits

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RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Christian Beliefs and Teachings

Key Information:

Nature of God and concept of God as a Trinity

Biblical accounts of creation

Jesus Christ: the incarnation, crucifixion, resur-rection and salvation

Eschatological beliefs and teachings

Problem of evil

Lent Term

Topics:

Christian Practices

Key Information:

Worship

Sacraments

Prayer

Pilgrimage

Christian celebration

Mission

The role of the Church in the wider world

Summer Term

Topics:

Christian Practices (continued)

Islam: Beliefs and Teachings

Key Information:

Core beliefs

Nature of Allah

Prophethood (Risalah)

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SPANISH

Michaelmas Term

Topics:

Revision of television and film

Describing past holidays

Giving details of your holiday

Learning about Spanish-speaking countries

Talking about mealtimes

Shopping for food

Eating in restaurants

Talk about past meals

Key Information:

Using the preterite of ser and ir

The preterite of AR verbs

Expressing opinions in the past

Use the present and preterite together

Using expressions of time

Using high numbers

When to use usted

Using the preterite of ER and IR verbs

Lent Term

Topics:

Talking about clothes

Talking about school uniform

Choosing items of clothing

Talking about types of shops

Learning different parts of the body

Describing symptoms

Talk about healthy and unhealthy food

Talking about healthy living

Talking about lifestyle changes

Key Information:

Making colours agree

Using comparative adjectives

Using superlative adjectives

Using present and future tenses

Using se puede + Infinitive

Using me duele/n

Getting remedies

Making resolutions for the future

Using para for complex sentences

Summer Term

Topics:

Finish “Healthy living” topic

Teaching translation skills

Teaching how to tackle the speaking exam

Revision for summer examination

Latin American countries project

Key Information:

Using three tenses together

Remembering the little words!

Explain the role-plays and photo questions

Creating a project on a South American Country

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FOOD AND NUTRITION

Michaelmas or Lent Term Rotation

Topics:

Food science

Nutrient groups

Carbohydrates

Proteins

Fats

Micronutrients

Adapting recipes for different dietary requirements

Extending independent practical skills

Key Information:

The effect of ingredients on the final product, rais-ing agents-chemical, biological and mechanical, gelatinisation of starches, coagulation of proteins.

The function of nutrients in the body and the ef-fect of deficiency or excess in the diet.

Food sources of nutrients for a range of dietary needs.

Being able to make successful adaptations to reci-pes by understanding needs of different dietary groups.

A range of practical skills will be developed with students using increasingly high level skills includ-ing pasta and breads

The effect of ingredients on the final product, rais-ing agents-chemical, biological and mechanical, gelatinisation of starches, coagulation of proteins.

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TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY

Term Rotation

Topics:

Designing original and ethical products. Synthesis-ing inspirational research and useful features

3-D design, modelling in paper

Pattern making

Revision of decorative techniques and working safe-ly

Use of CAD-CAM, computer aided design and manufacture e.g. digital printing, CNC embroidery

Decorative and useful bag, incorporating a recycled element - Plan, organise and make; evaluating de-sign and making ongoing improvements in aesthet-ics and quality

Key Information:

Artist research, product research, fashion and tech-nical trends e.g. electronics. Use of ICT

Prototyping to resolve issues of size, shape, fea-tures

Students will need support to purchase or recycle their choice of fabric, lining and components e.g. fastenings, straps. They will need to select cotton for dyeing and polyester for printing

Production record of iterative design and making process