NLCS - Curriculum - Year 8

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Subject

Autumn half term 1

Autumn half term 2

Spring half term 1

Spring half term 2

Summer half term 1

Summer half term 2

Art

Pop Art: A response to popular culture

My Wall: Street Art and stencil design

Islamic Pattern: Motifs and motion

Islamic Pattern: Complex printing

Surrealism: Weird worlds

Surrealism: Weird worlds composition

English

Introduction to the modern novel

Multi-cultural poetry

Drama text: Blood Brother/ Street Child

Classic Text Study: Dracula

Classic text study continued/ Murder Mystery

Public Speaking competition

French

Unit 1 :Fashion

Unit 2:Health

F Unit 3 Going out and the medias

Unit 4 My routine

Unit 5 Holidays

Unit 6 Paris

Geography

It’s a jungle out there

Going bananas

Hazardous world

Hazardous world

Frozen planet

Frozen planet

History

“…on which the sun never sets” How powerful was the British empire?

“Am I not a man and a brother?”

“The lights go out across Europe”

“the war to end all wars”

The spirit of the Blitz

“Weapons of mass destruction” – was the atom bomb justified?


Maths

Number Topics – Mental Mathematics, Types of Numbers and Operations.

Geometry and Measures– Areas of complex shapes, Measurements and basic Construction.

Algebra – Rearranging and Solving Equations by calculation.

Probability and Statistics - Probability, Averages and Representing Data.

Revision of all 4 Key Topics

Applications of Mathematics


PE

Science

Outwitting Opponents (rugby, football, netball, basketball, handball, dodgeball)

Outwitting Opponents (rugby, football, netball, basketball, handball, dodgeball)

Outwitting Opponents (rugby, football, netball, basketball, handball, dodgeball)

Outwitting Opponents (rugby, football, netball, basketball, handball, dodgeball)

Accurate Replication (gymnastics)

Accurate Replication (gymnastics)

Accurate Replication (gymnastics)

Accurate Replication (gymnastics)

Net and wall games (badminton, table tennis)

Net and wall games (badminton, table tennis)

Net and wall games (badminton, table tennis)

Net and wall games (badminton, table tennis)

Exploring and communicating ideas (OAA)

Exploring and communicating ideas (OAA)

Exploring and communicating ideas (OAA)

Exploring and communicating ideas (OAA)

Exercise and Fitness

Exercise and Fitness

Exercise and Fitness

Exercise and Fitness

Particle behaviour. Electricity & Electromagnets. Organ systems.

Farming. Heating & Cooling. Cosmology.

Fit & Healthy. Rocks & Rock cycle.

Microbes & Disease. Gravity, pressure & moments.

maximum levels (athletics awards)

Imaximum levels (athletics awards)

Striking and fielding (softball, rounders, cricket)

Striking and fielding (softball, rounders, cricket)

Net and wall games (tennis)

Net and wall games (tennis)

Chemical reactions. Light & Sound.

Inheritance & selection. Ecology.



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