Trinity Church of England High School
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Thursday 11 March 2010 (week 2) | email | e-Learning
What Pupils Learn In The Spring Term of Year 9
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Art| Citizenship | Design & Technology |Drama | English | Enquiry Skills | Geography | History | Languages | Maths | Music | PE | RE | Science
What You will Learn: Year 7 | Year 8
Art
Subject teachers choose from the following topics to deliver to Y9 classes. The individual needs and interests of each class may dictate which topics are selected and in which order. Additional information and support for classwork, homework and sketchbook keeping can be found on the art website.
- Nature-Inspired Design
- Nature-Inspired Ceramics
- Manga Illustration
- Digital Image Manipulation
- Assemblage Sculpture
- Sketchbook Skills
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Surrealism
Assessment:
Students work is photographed and formally assessed using National Curriculum criteria and National Curriculum levels.
Citizenship
The topic for this term is 'Rights and Responsibilities', including:
- Human Rights - UNDR
- Amnesty International & Active Citizenship
- Genocide: Rwanda
- Media & its impact
- The media promoting a cause
Design & Technology
The following points are covered in Design Technology:
- All students will continue to focus on the following areas: Planning for making, students will look at the type of materials that are used to make household items i.e. ipods, MP3 players.
- Quality and accuracy of final prototype.
Assessment:
Diagrammatical evidence in Student Log Book is assessed by the teacher. Students will be given an End of Key Stage 3 level of attainment based on Teacher Assessment from the 6 areas of study in the academic year.
Drama
The following area is covered in Drama:
- Students are either, reading “The 4th Year Are Animals” by Richard Tulloch and looking at the process of directing and developing
performance from text, or exploring issues and skills to do with decision making, parenting and growing up, using improvisation and forum
theatre.
Assessment:
Assessment take the form of ongoing observation by the teacher.
English
The following points are covered in English:
- Study the set Shakespeare scenes from Much Ado About Nothing or Richard III focusing on: Language, Themes and Ideas, Character and Motivation, Plays in performance.
- Practice writing for a purpose for a specific audience and in a given form.
Assessment:
This is assessed by Mock SATs Shakespeare examination comparing an aspect of the two set scenes of the play.
Enquiry Skills
The following points are covered in Enquiry Skills:
- Be able to use a spreadsheet as a model, using complex formula and functions to predict changes as a result of changing variables.
- To be able to use video editing software to create and edit a short film.
Assessment:
Students are awarded a National curriculum ICT level as part of the “You are what you eat” and “Bullying” projects.
Geography
The following points are covered in Geography:
- What is the plate tectonic theory?
- What are the causes, effects and human responses to earthquakes and volcanoes?
- What are the components of an ecosystem?
Assessment:
These are assessed in the following ways: Plate boundary worksheet – graded homework, National Curriculum assessment – a newspaper report on an earthquake or volcano and by completing a 'Components of an Ecosystem' worksheet that is graded.
History
Students will study either:
Black People of the Americas
- Why were Africans taken to America as slaves?
- The journey
- Life as a slave
- The fight for freedom
- The Civil War
- Life after slavery – free but not equal
- The fight for Civil Rights
- Slavery today
OR
19th Century Britain – Protest
- The French Revolution
- Revolution in Britain
- The Luddites
- The Chartists
- The Match Girls
- The Suffragettes
Assessment:
Students are assessed by a number of practical, group, and written assignments, such as:
- The Suffragettes: Derby day 1913 - Using evidence available, students to reach a conclusion about the fight for equal rights.
- Slavery: Students to look at evidence and produce a structured piece of work.
- The Mathc Girls: Students to work in groups to produce information on how such strikes were organised.
- Slavery Today: Students to present a detailed study of how / where slavery exists today.
Languages
The following points are covered in Languages:
Topics include: Food & Drink, Life in the Foreign Country, The Family
- Strategies for reading comprehension.
- Use a variety of tenses – present, past and future in written work.
Assessment:
Assessment is in the form of Reading and Written Tasks.
Mathematics
The following points are covered in Mathematics:
Set 1 & 2
- Shape and Shape: Apply Trigonometry
- Handling Data: Select, construct, modify and interpret suitable graphical representations.
- Algebra: Plot the graphs of similar quadratic and cubic functions.
- Handling Data: Construct and interpret pie charts.
Set 3 & 4
- Algebra: Recognise that equations of the form Y=MX + C correspond to straight line graphs. Plot the graph of linear functions.
- Handling Data: Know that the sum of probabilities is 1 and use this when solving equations.
Set 5
- Handling Data: Construct and interpret stem and leaf diagrams.
- Shape and Space: Identify and use Angle, side and Symmetry properties of triangles and quadrilaterals.
Assessment:
Students knowledge of the above points is tested through End-of-Unit tests and practice SATs questions linked to National Curriculum Levels.
Music
The following points are covered in Music:
- Students will learn how music can be used to help advertise a product.
- Students will develop their musical performance skills on an instrument of their choice.
Assessment:
These are assessed in the following ways: Production/performance of an original radio advertisement and assessed class performance of a variety of pieces.
Physical Education
The following points are covered in Physical Education:
- Develop more independence in planning activities using evaluation to improve performances.
- Begin to develop sports leadership skills in all activities (preparation for SL1 NVQ).
- Access and participate in Inter-Form Competitions
Assessment:
These are assessed by teacher levelling using Department Scheme of Work and QCA core tasks (photographic evidence for final report) and student participation in Inter-form competitions.
Religious Education
The following points are covered in Religious Education:
- To understand the different approaches used by Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to the issues of racism.
Assessment:
Students should participate in lessons and will complete an assessment task at the end of the unit.
Science
The following points are covered in Science:
- To recognise specialised plant cells and describe photosynthesis.
- To describe how electricity is generated and identify energy changes.
Assessment:
Students are set level assessed tasks and a end of topic test.
