Year 7 Curriculum Outlines 2008-9
Year 7 Curriculum Outlines 2007-8
Students will normally take all the subjects in this list, but only one modern foreign language from the four shown.
English
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Me, Myself And I; Text: Boy
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Other Worlds; Text: Coraline
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: English In Performance; Text: Macbeth
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Super Heroes Super Villains; Text: Various including moving image.
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Personal Daemons; Text: Skellig - Joey Pigza swallowed the key
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Media Unit - The Language of Advertising and Writing
Maths
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Transition Unit Project - Terence the Troll ~ Area & Angles
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Fractions ~ Decimals & Percentages ~ Manipulating algebra ~ Averages & Probability
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Solving Equations & Co-ordinates ~ Calculations & Metric Units
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Ratio & Proportion ~ Functions & Graphs ~ Transformations
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Data Handling Project ~ Constructions
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Data Handling Project ~ Constructions
Science
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Cells and Reproduction, Acids and alkalis with Simple chemical reactions, Energy resources and Electrical circuits
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Cells and Reproduction, Acids and alkalis with Simple chemical reactions, Energy resources and Electrical circuits
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Cells and Reproduction, Acids and alkalis with Simple chemical reactions, Energy resources and Electrical circuits
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Environment and feeding relationships and Variation and classification, Particle theory and Solutions, Forces and their effect and the Solar system and beyond
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Environment and feeding relationships and Variation and classification, Particle theory and Solutions, Forces and their effect and the Solar system and beyond
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Environment and feeding relationships and Variation and classification, Particle theory and Solutions, Forces and their effect and the Solar system and beyond and Microbes and disease and Ecological relationships
Art
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Colour Project
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Hundertwasser Project
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Masks Project
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Masks Project
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Windows and Buildings
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Windows and Buildings
Design Technology
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Introduction to workshop; Puppet project
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Puppet project
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: LED Torch Project / handles
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: LED Torch Project / handles
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Pop - up book project
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Pop - up book project
Drama
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Introduction to Drama: Students will have a broad introduction to the basic drama skills including still image, thought tapping, mime etc.
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Stanislavski: Students will learn about the work of the Drama Practitioner Stanislavski. They will learn about Naturalistic drama and Stanislavki's system for actors
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Storytelling: Students will learn about different methods of story telling focusing on plot, narration and dramatic structure
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Script Work: Students will learn to work with scripts including blocking, line learning, stage directions and rehearsal exercises.
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Technical Theatre & Improvisation: Students will practice improvisation skills. They will also be introduced to using lights, sound, props etc within their work
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Physical Theatre: Students will focus on using Physical Theatre to tell a story and will look at representing objects, colours etc.
Humanities
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Making Connections
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Ancient Worlds
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Living Worlds
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Sikhism
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Medieval Realms
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Sports and Fashion
ICT
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: 7.1 Using ICT - creating a presentation on themselves.
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: 7.2 Using Data and Information Sources - set up a survey sample and phrase questions appropriately
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: 7.3 Making a leaflet - creating a leaflet on a subject of their choice
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: 7.4 Introduction to modelling and producing numeric data - using spreadsheets effectively
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: 7.5 Data Handling - using Databases
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: 7.6 Control and Monitoring - using the Lego Robots to find out about control
Modern Languages ~ French
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Greetings, what you have, alphabet, age, birthdays
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Colours, where you live, family, pets, descriptions
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: School, time, what you do and wear
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Sports, free time, weekend, weather
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Where you live,house, rooms, bedroom furniture
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Holidays destinations, what you are going to do, town, souvenirs, food
Modern Languages ~ German
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Greetings, introductions, numbers, days of week, months, where you live, where you're from
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Family, pets, colours
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: School equipment, school subjects, opinions, time, timetable and school day
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Addresses, rooms of the house, furniture, describing your bedroom
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Food and drink, meals, likes and dislikes
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Consolidation / catch-up / project work
Modern Languages ~ Italian
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term:
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Numbers up to 31, age, birthday, brothers/sisters, pets
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: School, items in a bag
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Subjects, timetable, classroom language
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Hobbies, opinions
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Town, weekend activities
Modern Languages ~ Spanish
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Greetings, classroom language and items
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Days and dates, alphabet
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Nationalities, brothers and sisters
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Animals, descriptions
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: School, subjects and opinions
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Time, food, transport
Music
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Elements of music
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Horror [elements, rhythm, notation, sound effects]
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Beethoven's Ode to Joy [note values, keyboard structure]
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Medieval
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Rhythmic Chant
Summer Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Composition & Performance project
Think Time
Autumn Term 2007 ~ First Half Term: Me Myself and I : Introduction to thinking toolkit - MI profiling; Brain Dominance; Memory aids; Mindmapping; Thinking Hats and PNI. Students to use tools to create 'Mysterious Me' exhibit.
Autumn Term 2007 ~ Second Half Term: Celebrations: Investigation of the nature of celebrations. Case Study of Remebrance - Private Peaceful Literacy input; assembly recipe and review. Students will devise and develop a presentation/assembly around the theme of a cultural festival/celebration happening. Students will peer review assembly against their original perfect recipe for an assembly.
Spring Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Module 2 - Time Capsule: The Age of the Earth: an investigation of the concept and nature of time. Explored through: theories about the age of the earth; the Pangea process; the varieties and methods of calandars used by humans past and present. Students will also be allowed to think imaginatively about the concept of time by writing a short story about time travel - 'Johnny and the bomb' is used a stimulus for this.
Spring Term 2008 ~ Second Half Term: Moving on: this topic explores the themes of rights of passage and aspirations for the future. Students find out about the nature of age laws and the concepts of right and responsibility. They are also asked to speculate on where they might be in 5 to 10 years time they write a ROA personal statement as if they have reached Y11 and then they write a contribution for a class reunion update explaining what they became in their adult life.
Summer Term 2008 ~ First Half Term: Global Village: Students investigate the variety of organisations that link the peoples of the world together. They investi
