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Key Stage 3
| Key Stage 3 | Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 |
| Art | Horrible halves, still life, medieval art. | African art, shoe studies. | Fairground art, expressions, exotic jungle. |
| Citizenship | |||
| Design & Technology |
Grabber project, Mini-light project, Sign project, Bag project |
Steady hand game project, Mechanisms project, Healthy Eating project. |
Clock project, Control project, Food project. |
| Drama | Introduction to drama, improvisation (stage conventions), 'bullying', 'Darkwood Manor', scripted work. | Improvisation (dramatic strategies), characterisation, sripted work, 'Evacuation', mime and physical theatre. | Teechers', Shakespeare, 'Across the Barricades', family conflict. |
| English |
Y6/7 Transition "Stealing the Show", Autobiography: "Myself" |
Reading fiction: The Novel |
Different styles of writing - matching style to audience and purpose, reading or information and recognising bias. |
| Geography | What is Geography? Links with Africa, Map Skills. | Europe & Italy, National Parks, Tsunami, China - a superpower? | Japan, Earthquakes/Volcanoes, Population, Development, Kenya. |
| History | Introduction to history, Romans. Medieval realms, the native people of North America. | Elizabeth, Cromwell, The French Revolution, The Industrial Revolution: struggle for the vote. | British Empire, slavery, First World War, era of the second World War. |
| ICT | Using ICT, using data & Information sources, spreadsheets, making a leaflet (DTP), control. | Public information systems, publishing on the web, spreadsheet modelling, ICT systems. | Web research, spreadsheets, databases, presentation. OCR National Unit 1. |
| Mathematics | Algebra, Number, Shape: space and measures, Handling Data. |
Algebra, Number, Shape: space and measures, Handling Data |
ALgebra, Number, Shape: space and measures, Handling Data. |
| MFL French | In preparation | Self and others, introduction to 'who I am', family & discriptions, food & quantities, getting to know Paris, visit to France. | France, family and relationships, visits (directions and places) fitness and health, fashion, the news. |
| MFL German | In preparation | Self and others, holiday, body and health, food and shopping, planning a visit, clothes and leisure. | Countries and holidays, school environment, media, jobs and money, family. |
| Music | Beat & rhythm, Jazz, Composing, a Classical composer, Keyboard skills, sequencing. | 3 time dances, improvisation, guitar chords, opera, oriental soundscape, sequencing. | African rhythm, Blues, Pop music, Musicals, sequencing. |
| PE | Half termly units over 3 years including: football, rugby, hockey, basketball, tennis, athletics, volleyball, dance, swimming, gymnastics, badminton, tennis, softball, rounders, ultimate frisbee. | see Y7 | see Y7 |
| RE | In preparation | Commitment, celebrations, special journeys. | Belonging, sacred earth, influence of, and religion in, the media. |
| Science | In preparation | Atoms, elements, compounds and mixtures. Light, sound and hearing food and respiration, rocks and the rock cycle, microbes and ecology, heating and magnets. | Photosynthesis and plants, metals and reactivity, speed and pressure, environmental chemistry, inheritance and fit and healthy, energy and electricity, gravity and space. |
