Year 9
Curriculum Outline 2018-19
Year 9 Curriculum Outline 2018 - 19 Pastoral Leader - Ms Rebecca Taylor
Form Tutors: 9A
Miss Isabella Coles
9G
Ms Joy Goddard
9G
Miss Cheryl Dean
9H
Mr A Williams
9S
Miss Georgina Wood
ENGLISH Key Topics Students study a more demanding range of texts which will help prepare them for their GCSE studies. They will study at least one novel (To Kill a Mockingbird or Lord of the Flies, for example), a Shakespeare play (Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet or The Merchant of Venice), and some World War One poetry and literature in preparation for the battlefields trip in the Summer Term. They might also study a modern play such as Educating Rita. A wide range of reading, writing and speaking and listening activities will allow students to hone their analytical, language and creative writing skills so that they are ready for the demands of Year 10.
Assessment ● ●
Regular written assignments Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment ●
Battlefields of Belgium and France in the Summer Term
MATHEMATICS Exam Board Edexcel GCSE Mathematics (1MA1)
Key Topics ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Functions Estimation, Accuracy, Upper & Lower Bounds Straight Line Graphs Algebraic Manipulation Area and Volume Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Pythagoras and Trigonometry Bearings and Scales Probability Linear and Quadratic Equations Indices
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Ratio Rearranging Formulae Linear Inequalities Surds Linear Simultaneous Equations Linear Sequences Percentage Change Angles One-variable Statistics
Assessment ●
Informal Assessment in Lessons, Half-Termly Tests, Summer Exam
PHYSICS Exam Board Edexcel GCSE Physics 1PH0
Key Topics ● ● ● ● ●
Forces and motion Energy Waves Light and the Electromagnetic spectrum The Particle model
Assessment ● ●
Short end-of-topic tests Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment ●
“Physics at Work” - Cavendish Laboratory - University of Cambridge
CHEMISTRY Exam Board Edexcel GCSE Chemistry 1CH0
Key Topics ● ● ● ● ●
Separations Atomic Theory Ionic and Covalent Bonding Types of Structure Acids, Bases and Salts
Assessment ● ●
Short end-of-topic tests Summer exam
BIOLOGY Exam Board Edexcel GCSE Biology 1BI0
Key Topics ● ● ● ●
Key concepts in Biology Cells and control Genetics and variation Evolution and natural selection
Assessment ● ●
Short end-of-topic tests Summer exam
RS & PHILOSOPHY Key Topics ● ● ●
A study of philosophy A study of one world religion: Buddhism (beliefs and practices) A study of ethics
Assessment ● ● ●
Ongoing assessment throughout the year End-of-topic tests Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment ●
A lecture by an eminent philosopher
HISTORY Key Topics ● ● ●
Industrial Revolution World War One The Peace Treaties
Assessment ● ● ●
Ongoing assessment throughout the year including project End-of-topic tests Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment ●
Flanders battlefields in the Summer Term (25-27 June)
GEOGRAPHY Key Topics ● ● ●
Development: differences between the rich and the poor and how this is changing Globalisation: how it has affected our lives and changed the global landscape Resource management
Assessment ● ● ●
Ongoing assessment throughout the year End-of-topic assessments Summer exam
CREATIVE ARTS & TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME In Year 9, students select from a range of Creative Arts modules designed to give them a flavour of the GCSE approach. Students can select projects based on the published creative options available on our website: http://www.stephenperse.com/creativeoptions During the first half of the year the students across all of the modules prepare work for our Creative Arts Showcase; this evening of exhibitions and performances will be held on Wednesday 30 January commencing at 17:00.
VISUAL ARTS Module Choices Students choose from: Sculpture, Painting and Printmaking, Printed Textiles, Sculptural Fashion construction, Digital Animation and Film, Photography and Design.
Trips/curricular enrichment ● ●
Joint trip with Design in the Autumn Term to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Creative Arts Showcase in January - exhibition and performances of the Year 9 student’s outcomes from their first projects
Assessment ●
Ongoing assessment: using project outcomes and development and research in the student sketchbooks / blog posts/Pinterest boards
DESIGN ENGINEERING Module Choices Students choose from: Architecture and 3D Design
Trips/curricular enrichment ●
Joint trip with Art in the Autumn Term
DRAMA Module Choices Students choose from: Make-up, Choreography for Musical Theatre, Creating Visual Theatre, Using Text in Performance, Behind the Scenes, Stage Combat and Text
MUSIC Creative Choices Students choose from: Song Writing, Composing for Film, or Music in Performance.
LATIN Key Topics Students will negotiate increasingly complex Latin sentences; these sentences will feature a broader range of case use, and verb forms. They will practise their ability to implement linguistic rules (e.g. noun & adjective agreement) accurately, and handle complicated
grammatical forms such as participles. Various areas of Roman culture will be studied, including Roman religion and Roman political history.
Assessment ● ● ●
Regular vocabulary and grammar tests Spring Term assessment Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment All students will be offered the chance to follow an optional taster course in Ancient Greek in the second half of the Autumn Term.
FRENCH Key Topics ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Discovering French speaking countries Family & friends Daily routine Paris Weather and travel Leisure activities TV, cinema and books School & careers Talking about a theme park Enquiring about hotel services Finding out about Québec Health and fitness Being at the chemist, doctor and dentist Holiday plans
Main grammar points ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Revising the present tense Regular and irregular adjectives Reflexive verbs in the present and perfect tense Revision of the perfect tense with être and avoir, adverbs Comparatives and superlatives The imperfect and future tenses (immediate and simple) Pronouns (direct, indirect, y, en and qui/que)
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The imperative mood Use of the perfect and imperfect together
Assessment ● ●
Regular vocabulary and grammar tests Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment ● ●
French exchange to Rouen Easter 2019 Onatti play at the Senior School
SPANISH Key Topics ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Clothes Giving opinions Free time Meal times Daily routine Travel Holidays Festivals Jobs
Main grammar points ● ● ● ● ●
Present tense - regular and irregular verbs Gerund Stem changing verbs Preterite tense Imperfect tense
Assessment ● ●
Regular vocabulary and grammar tests Summer exam
GERMAN Key Topics ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Introductions School Family & friends Free time Home life Town Holidays Shopping Food & drink Health Daily routine Environment
Main grammar points ● ● ● ●
Past, present and future tenses Main regular and irregular verb patterns All four cases Word order
Assessment ● ●
Regular vocabulary tests Summer exam
MANDARIN CHINESE Key Topics ● ● ● ● ●
Family and home Leisure time School Food and drink Travel
Assessment ●
Regular vocabulary tests
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Summer exam
Trips/curricular enrichment ●
A trip to a local Chinese restaurant
GAMES Autumn & Spring Term Options ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Hockey and netball are our main competitive sports Touch rugby Football Fitness Dance Badminton Basketball Trampolining
Summer Term Options ● ● ●
Cricket is our main competitive sport Tennis Athletics
PSHE Off-timetable events ● ● ●
Weds 1 November: SRE II - age-appropriate follow-on to the brief introduction to Sex & Relationships Education in Years 7 and 8 Tues 16 January: Focus on the Future II - thinking about possibilities for future careers and introduction to the GCSE options process Tues 22 March: Focus on the Future III – looking ahead to GCSEs and beyond
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Mon 11 June: Developing Resilience I - sessions on adopting positive thought patterns and exploring ways of coping with pressure in a productive and healthy manner
Morning PSHE sessions Healthy and safer lifestyles: ● ● ● ●
Personal, road, street and Internet safety Development of the teenage brain Health provision in the UK First aid
Citizenship: ● ● ●
The UK justice system Young people's rights
The fairness of trade and child labour
Career Development and choice: ●
The job market
Reading week: Week beginning 16 October No formal homework will be set. During this week students will be encouraged to read and should take the opportunity to organise their files as necessary.
Summer Examinations: 18 - 25 May All students in the Senior School will sit school examinations during this week. The aim of the examinations is to develop students’ skills in preparing for and sitting exams, and making use of feedback. Teachers will guide their students through a revision process and strategies appropriate to their subject.
K EY DATES Please note that event details are subject to change - we will email you if there are changes to the dates below. For more detailed information on events throughout the school year, please see the Senior School calendar on our website.
Event
Date
Day
Y9 Introduction to the Year Evening
17 September
Mon
PSHE Parent Information Evening
10 October
Weds
Carol Service – Great St. Mary’s
12 December
Weds
GCSE Years Event
10 January
Thurs
PSHE Parent Information Evening
22 January
Tues
Y9 Parents' Evening
24 January
Thurs
Y9 Creative Arts Evening
30 January
Weds
PSHE Parent Information Evening
29 April
Mon
Senior School and 6th Form Speech Day
TBC
TBC
Senior School and 6th Form Sports Day
11 July
Thurs