Key Stage 3 Handbook
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SUBJECT: ENGLISH
Head of Department: Mr C Barker • Private Peaceful (novel)
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
• Culture (Poetry) • Introductions (Speaking & Listening) • Individual Presentations • Autobiography
TERM 2 Spring Year 7 •
7W E AR Y Frankenstein — drama unit
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• In-role response
B PTEM E • Poetry Anthology S IN MED R I F CON
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• Exam Prep (non fiction) • Optional SATS tests
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8
• Presentation on “love”
• Magazines (Media Unit) • Shakespeare: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Animal Farm (novel) • Travel writing (non/fiction and media)
TERM 5 Spring Year 8
• Optional SATS tests
• Paintings and Poetry • Exam Preparation (non fiction)
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9
• Montmorency (novel)
• Horror (Original writing) • Theme Parks (Speaking and Listening)
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9
• Non-fiction style “confessional” piece
• Shakespeare: “Romeo and Juliet” • Recreations (poetry)
TERM 8 Spring Year 9
• Moving image (original writing)
• Spoken Language • Media.Non-fiction
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Exam preparation • Issues (Speaking and Listening) • Optional SATS tests
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• Individual presentations
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS
Handling Data and • Algebra— simplify Averages expressions • Probability BE R M E T P • Number Work: Negative IN SE D E numbers and number types M IR
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
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Thinking and logic. • Venn Diagrams • Angles
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TERM 2 Spring Year 7
Head of Department: Ms M Payton
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Decimals • Area, Perimeter and volume
nth term • Co-ordinates and plotting graphs
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8
• Solving Equations,
• Project work and Money
Expressions and Formula • Angle Rules and construction
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• Powers and roots • Harder probability
• Averages and data
representation
Management TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Fractions, Percentages,
Decimals TERM 5 Spring Year 8
• Ratio
• Negative Numbers
• Area, Surface Area, Volume
• Transformations
and Construction, Isometric Drawing
• Index Rules and BIDMAS
• Mental Maths Methods.
• Time and Timetables,
• Trial and Improvement
conversion graphs, DST and DMV • Triangles
• Equations
(Inequalities) • Sequences and nth term
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9
• Handling Data Project and all • Fractions Percentages
• Construction • Money Project
aspects of the Data Handling Decimals cycle • Index Rules • Probability
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9
• Sequences
• Graphing
• Transformations • Equations
• Standard form
• Area and Volume
• 2-d Shape work (ext to
TERM 8 Spring Year 9
• Handling Data
Pythagoras and Trig) • Using a calculator
• Shape and Space
• Graphing • Revision for KS3
Assessment
• Algebra • Number
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • GCSE: aspects of number • Project Work
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SUBJECT: SCIENCE
Head of Department: Mr O Brennan
Developing Key scientific nature? vital for Key Stage 3 Science • Myself and My community: M BE R E T What makes us “us”, and P SE what role do we play R inMED IN
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
• How science works:
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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science and human interaction with the earth
• The environment, earth • Fireworks: Key Chemistry
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8
and the universe. Geo• Lost: A wide variety of
physics topics covered, following the theme of survival as seen in the TV series “Lost” TERM 4 Autumn Year 8
TERM 5 Spring Year 8
• Being a Scientist: A chance
• Energy for life: where does
to recap key scientific skills and lab safety
all the energy for life come from, and how is it used?
• Is there life out there?
Investigating the solare system and space travel
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9
• The perfect Olympian:
Investigating speed, sport technologies and performance enhancing drugs.
• Into the future: How are we
damaging our environment and what impact will this have on future generations TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • Biology: Microbes, Infection
and immunization. TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Biology: Inheritance and
• Chemistry: Reaction of
• Physics: Light and Sound.
metals, non-metals & metal compounds. Reactivity Series. • Chemistry: Air, Water
pollution, acid rain, environmental pollution
Selection TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Beginning of GCSE study:
BIOLOGY
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• Physics: Pressure and
moments
SUBJECT: ART
Head of Department: Mr M Astrop
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
M BE R E T P • Hybrid Culture : a cross curricular scheme of work culminating N SEexhibition of all students’ I in an D E M work. R ONFI C E B TERM 2 Spring Year 7 WILL K R WO AR 7 E Y • Ways of Seeing: Observational work in a variety of media. • Identity: self portraiture and self-image
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • Narrative: A project examining the use of narrative and storytelling in art. Students will explore
creating characters and bookmaking. TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Environment: A project that takes inspiration from the world around us and our responses to it.
Students will learn about perspective and 3D work. TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • Process: skills based workshops learning a variety of art, design and craft techniques such as
painting and printing. TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • Encounters: Looking at the work of a culture. Investigating context and meaning through using
a variety of techniques. TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • GCSE Tasters: How artists use modern and traditional techniques to question the visual world
around them." TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Food Glorious Food: A student-led investigation of materials and processes as preparation for
GCSE or a stand-alone project. TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Transformations: Exploring a variety of ideas and artists through photography and ICT.
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SUBJECT: CITIZENSHIP
Head of Department: Mr N O’Connor
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 Citizenship is not delivered as a separate subject in Term 1
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 Citizenship is not delivered as a separate subject until the first timetable change TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 Diversity • Drugs Education •
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • Fair Trade • Campaigning for change
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • Government & Parliament • Young People & The Law
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • Sex Education • Refugees
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Global Issues • Model United Nations
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Sex Education •
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SUBJECT:
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Head of Department: Mr S McDonagh
PRODUCT DESIGN Design & Make Activities TERM 2 Spring Year 7 • Desk Tidy M BE R E T P • Key Fob IN SE TERM 3 Summer Year 7 D E M • NBuggy FIR O C E B • Structures Year 7 in Design Technology work onILdesign W L K R & make activities in Product Design until the O • Paper Clip—CAD/CAM R7W EA timetable changeYin June. Year 7 stay with the same teacher. Projects run over 4 to 8 weeks. TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
TERM 3 Summer Year 8
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8
Design & Technology Masterclass (introduction to Year 8)
TERM 5 Spring Year 8
• Design & Make Activities
Padded Product • Appliquéd cushion • Dye transfer, quilted mobile\iPod holder •
TERM 6 Summer Year 8 • PRODUCT DESIGN • Design & Make Activities
• FOOD TECHNOLOGY
Mechanical Toy • Art Deco Clock
• Hygiene and safety
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• Design & Make Activities •
Projects in Year 8 run over an • TEXTILE DESIGN 8 week carousel rotation. • Health and Safety • Correct use of the sewing machine
TERM 6 Summer Year 9 Design & Technology Masterclass (introduction to Year 9)
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 TERM 8 Spring Year 9 TERM 9 Summer Year 9
Healthy quick meals and snacks
• CAM embroidery • Fastenings and Construction • FOOD TECHNOLOGY • Design & Make Activities
PRODUCT DESIGN • Design & Make Activities Projects in Year 9 run over an • Systems and Control 8 week carousel rotation. • Storage
• Make it—preparing recipes
for meals as opposed to buying them as ready made products
• TEXTILE DESIGN • Design & Make Activities •
Pencil case/ small bag/ make-up bag project
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SUBJECT: DRAMA
Head of Department: Mr G Contor
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 • Identity ‘ISHI’ • International Myths Legends
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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Haunted HouseY(Physical Theatre) • Bullying: A Life Problem •
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • Characterisation—Developing Roles • Text—Making Meanings of Words
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Commedia ‘Dell’Arte’ • Joan of Arc
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • Titanic •
Leaving Home
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • Soap Operas—Popular Culture • Battle Cries (Children in war)
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • Genres • Kerry Smith Teenage Pregnancy
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Shakespeare Unit • Stage fighting
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Devised of scripted plays
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SUBJECT: ECS
Head of Department: Ms M Lewis
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 • Judaism, Identity and Belonging, Excluded groups •
Internationalism-Arab/Israeli Conflict
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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• Christianity: LifeYof Jesus - Investigation, interpretation and empathy.
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • Islam- Investigation of Muhammad, comparison of beliefs Islam • Judaism and Christianity
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Hinduism/ Ultimate questions
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • Buddhism and self-improvement
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • Sikhism/Equality
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • Beginning of WJEC Board GCSE RE. Specification B. • Comparative study of Moral Issues in Islam and Christianity.
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Beginning of WJEC Board GCSE RE. Specification B. • Comparative study of Moral Issues in Islam and Christianity
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Beginning of WJEC Board GCSE RE. Specification B. • Comparative study of Moral Issues in Islam and Christianity
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SUBJECT: GEOGRAPHY
Head of Department: Ms H Hickey
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 • Identity • Internationalism • Enrichment Field Trip
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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• Map Skills
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 Settlement Growth & Change • France Diversity •
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Coasts- Processes & Issues • Food and Farming
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • Flooding UK & Bangladesh • Globalisations: Clothes, Cars and Chocolate.
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • Globalisation: Clothes, Cars & Chocolate • Amazon Forest: Use and Abuse
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 •
Hazards — Earthquakes, Volcano, Tsunami, Tropical Storms
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Global Issues: Tourism Majorca and Kenya • Global Issues: Climate Change
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Global Issues: Megacities
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SUBJECT: HISTORY
Head of Department: Ms J Kingston
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 Identity. How do we learn about our past? • The Battle of Hastings and the Normans • Medieval Castles •
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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• Medieval Life inYEngland
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TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • Medieval Life in the Islamic World
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8
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• England 1500-1800: changes in the balance of power •
The Tudors,
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • From Kingdoms to President – a Study of Black History • African Civilisations, the Transatlantic Slave trade, Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • The Industrial Revolution, how it changed people’s lives
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • How did women get the vote? •
The First World War
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Hitler’s Rise to Power and Nazi Germany
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • The Holocaust
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SUBJECT: ICT
Head of Department: Mr Odei (acting)
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 • E-safety - producing an e-safety comic
B PTEM E • Design with ComicLife S D IN E M R • IT in Design: Producing promotional material • Theatre Promotion. I CONF E B L Logo. TERM 2 Spring Year 7 IL RK W O W 7 YEAR • IT in Action: Climate graphs in Excel
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• Infographics • Introduction to programming: Scratch and MS
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • Web Design
ICT is not taught as a subject in Year 8
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8
ICT is not taught as a subject in Year 8 TERM 5 Spring Year 8 ICT is not taught as a subject in Year 8
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9
• Skills workshop: Graphics, Animation, CAD
and Sound Editing. • Charity Project - Publisher & Comic Life.
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9
• Control and programming with MS Logo,
Scratch and beyond • Powerpoint Quiz
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Web Design and Games Creation
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • Skills workshop in Office Applications. • Learning to learn with ICT.
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SUBJECT: MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
Head of Department: Ms A Lacroix
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
FRENCH
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• Introducing yourself/counting up to 31 • Talking about classroom/ understand the definite
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the present tense AR 7 YEreasons Giving opinions and Understanding adjectives agreements Talking about family/ using the possessive adjectives Talking about your pets
• Introducing yourself/counting up to 31
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • • • • •
Saying what you do in your free time Telling the time/ using verbs Describing your home / town Using simple prepositions Using the pronoun “on”
• Understanding adjectives agreements • Talking about family/ using the possessive • • • •
adjectives Talking about your pets Describing yourself and others Counting up to 100 Using the verb “ser”
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Talking about places in town and asking for
directions • Ordering drinks and snacks • Using the preposition à (‘to’ or ‘at’) • Understanding the difference between tu and • • • • •
vous Saying what someone else likes Using reflexive verbs Talking about your daily routine Talking about your timetable Talking about extra curricular activities
• Talking about where you live • • • • •
Saying what you do during your free time Telling the time Saying what you like to do Saying what you are going to do. Using the near future
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Talking about activities Using reflexive verbs and sequencing words Talking about places in town. Using the near future tense and present tense Inviting someone to go out Saying what someone else likes and dislikes
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Talking about holidays Using the past tense Talking about food Using past, present and future
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • • • • • • • • •
Talking about sports and at the leisure centre Talking about holidays Talking about the weather Talking about last week end Using the perfect tense with avoir and etre Using regular and irregular past participles Talking about TV programmes Talking about events in the past Extending and linking sentences
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 Making and reacting to invitations Talking about clothes and shopping Using comparatives and superlatives Understanding a longer text including mixed tenses • Talking about French meals • Shopping for food • Eating at a restaurant • • • •
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TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Talking about the future • Talking about future careers • Using connectives in complex sentences
• Talking about school, subjects, teachers and
clubs • Talking about parts of the body and illnesses • Talking about healthy lifestyle
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • • • •
Talking about illnesses Talking about healthy living Consolidation Grammar - Present - Future - Preterite tenses
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Talking about earning and spending money Talking about jobs Consolidation Grammar - Present - Future - Preterite tenses
SUBJECT: MUSIC
Head of Department: Mr E Harlow
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7 • Identity •
Internationalism
TERM 2 Spring Year 7
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Y - Animals • Descriptive Music • Descriptive Music – Mood
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 • Elements of Music 1 • Controls
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 • Structures in Music • RONDO
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 • Descriptive music- Planets • Descriptive music- Impressions
TERM 6 Summer Year 8/9 • Structures • Song structure
TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 • Descriptive music- Film Music
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 • Controls • Remixing & Arranging
TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE • • •
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SUBJECT: PE
Head of Department: Mr S Ibrahim
TERM 1 Autumn Year 7
• Talent identification • Internationalism
• Introduction to Highgate Wood School
Physical Education • Identity TERM 2 Spring Year 7 (1)
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TERM 2 Spring Year 7 (2)
TERM 3 Summer Year 7/8 (2)Outwitting an opponent.
• SCHEME 3
• SCHEME 4 Accurate Replication
SIX SCHEMES ON ROTATION • SCHEME 1 Exploring and communicating ideas.
• SCHEME 5 Identifying and problem solving. • SCHEME 6 Performing at maximum levels
• SCHEME 2 Exercising safely and efficiently.
TERM 4 Autumn Year 8 (1) & (2) TERM 5 Spring Year 8 (1)
TERM 5 Spring Year 8 (2) TERM 6 Summer Year 8 (2)
• APPLICATION OF THEMES
• APPLICATION OF THEMES
Basketball, Badminton, Football, Netball, Hockey, Tag Rugby. Gymnastics, Swimming, Dance
Athletics and Fitness testing
TERM 6 Summer Year 8 • APPLICATION OF THEMES
Tennis, Rounders, Softball, Cricket TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 (1) • COACHING & LEADERSHIP AWARD • OFFICIATING ASSESSMENT
TERM 8 Spring Year 9 (1) • END OF KEY STAGE 3 PRACTICAL AS-
SESSMENTS TERM 9 Summer Year 9/GCSE (1) • COMPETITION DEVELOPMENT -
Intercolour Sport
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TERM 7 Autumn Year 9 (2) • HEALTHY ACTIVE LIFESTYLES - Health &
Fitness TERM 8 Spring Year 9 (2) • DEVELOPING COMPETENCES - Athletics
TERM 9 Summer GCSE • BEGINNING OF KEY STAGE 4 PE