Year 8 Curriculum Plan Subject Autumn Term Computing Web Development - Students gain an understanding of networks and English Geography History Maths
Physical Education RE Science Spanish
Web Development - Using Serif Web Plus, students will create a website and how the internet works. They will use HTML to create a webpage. will gain an understanding of domain names and hosting. Unusual Sports: Transactional Writing - Students will be exploring Victorian Literature: Reading - Students will be reading 19th Century material newspaper and magazine articles related to unusual sports with a focus from authors such as Dickens, Shelley and Hardy. Students will also explore on writing skills. the context that influenced literature of the century. Fantastic Places - Unreal USA/North America - Students to understand Amazing Asia - Students to explore the vast continent of Asia, investigating the formation of both human and physical features found across North different levels of development across countries. America. How did Britain become a democracy? - The development of key Why did ordinary people ‘need’ the vote in 1800? - Study relating to skills/concepts such as change & continuity and causes & consequence, protests and clashes within Britain, leading to the suffragette campaign. to study developments in Britain. Calculating with standard form Sequences Formulae Percentages and index laws Skills covered:Describing a sequence, Skills covered:Writing expressions, Skills covered: Finding percentages Skills covered: laws of indices, continuing a sequence, term to term using formula, forming and solving using decimal basic standard form, calculations rules, Nth term of linear equations, rearranging formula multipliers, Increase/decrease with in standard form sequence, generating sequences, linking decimal multipliers, calculating simple sequences to linear graph, Quadratic interest, calculating compound nth term interest, reverse percentages Football Rugby League Netball Cross country Dance Handball Table tennis What is true love? Students reflect on different types of love and what it How do we know the difference between right and wrong? Students will means to have values. Faith focus - Christianity explore 'morality' and how to make moral decisions with a faith focus on Judaism Biology: Biological processes 1 – digestion and Chemistry: Matter Physics: Waves – light and sound. Speed of sound, breathing reflection and refraction, colour. Las vacaciones (Holidays) - Students learn to give and understand Mi vida (My life) - Students discuss aspects of media including how they use detailed information about holidays using the present mobile phones, their television and music preferences and use and preterite tense. the preterite tense to talk and write about what they have done in their free time.