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Key Stage 4
The Key Stage 4 Course Booklet can be downloaded here. It will be updated for 2009 soon.
| Key Stage 4 | Year 10 | Year 11 |
| Art (GCSE) | Interpretations project, art of Africa project. A third project. | Art of Africa project. A third project. |
| Art (BTEC) | Timeline, the environment around me, digital advertising. | Deep trouble, explore and develop art and design ideas. |
| Business Studies | Types of business, marketing, people in business, production, coursework. | Finance, external influences, exam technique. |
| Design & Technology |
Engineering: Pen project, G clamp project. Product Design: Fun & Games, Sustainability Textiles: foundation skills |
Engineering: embossing tool Textiles: home furnishings project Food; major project |
| English | ||
| Geography | Population, Rain Forests, Farming, Coursework, Rivers | TBA |
| History | Crime and punishment (Romans to the 20th Century), coursework on Saltaire. | Northern Ireland. Germany 1919-1945. |
| ICT | Website graphic banners and buttons. Presentation. | Website graphic banners and buttons. Presentation. |
| Mathematics | Number, probability, statistics, data handling, fractions, linear equations, ,percentages, ratio and proportion, circle theorems. | Alegebra, displaying data, mensuration, trial and improvement, trigonometry, vectors. |
| MFL - French | Educational studies, personal relationships, free time, jobs, local environment, shops and towns. | Holidays, revision of shops and towns, health and well-being, transport. |
| MFL German | Self and family, school and future plans, leisure, holidays and accommodation, home town, shopping. | Daily life and health, careers, relationships, environment. |
| MFL Spanish | Me presento, en el cole, de vacaciones, en ruta, ¿Qué te ha pasado? En casa y en el trabajo. | De compras, De juerga, Yo, El futuro. |
| Music | Melody writing & chords, popular song in context, texture and structure, world music, solo & ensemble performances, western classical music. | Refining compositions, changing directions in western classical music, recording solo & ensemble performances. |
| PE for all | Four sports studied in depth. | Four sports studied in depth. |
| PE (GCSE) | Bones, joints, muscles, circulation, respiration. | Exercise, training, sports injuries. |
| PE (BTEC) | Body in sport, practical sport, sports leaders. | Preparation for sport, work experience, health & safety, injury in sport. |
| RE | Marriage and the family, Social harmony, matter of life and death. | Believing in God, Religion, wealth and poverty. |
| Science | Core Science (single GCSE): Biology: coordination and control, healthy eating, drug abuse, controlling infectious disease, adaptation for survival, variation, evolution, how people affect the planet. Chemistry: rocks and building, rocks and metals, crude oil, products from oil, plant oils, the changing world. Physics: heat trasnfer, using energy, electrical energy, generating electricity, electromagnetic waves, rqadioacticity, the origins of the universe. | Additional Science (single GCSE): Biology: cells, how plants produce food, energy flows, enzymes, homeostatis, inheritance (+ for triple award: exchange of materials, transporting substances around the body, microbiology). Chemistry: structures and bonding, how much, rates of reaction, energy in reactions, electrolysis, acids, alkalis and salts. (+ for triple award: development of the periodic table, more about acids and bases, water, energy calculations, analysis. Physics: motion, speeding up and slowing down, work, energy and momentum, static electricity, current electricity, mains electricity, nuclear electricity. (+ for triple award: turning forces, light and sound, electromagnetism, stars and space.) |
