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Year 8

Spring Term

Computing

Creative Products & Business Artefacts:
Pupils will look at branding and promotion using IT. They will consider different graphic types and their usability before creating a book cover. They will then develop a spreadsheet model to work out publishing costs for their books and a website to promote the publishing company and the new book.

Creativity

Music - Film and Backing Music:
Explore how music sets the scene, gain insight into the melodic devices and structure of composers and compose own ideas.

Art – Photography:
Use Photopea to create digitally enhanced images.
Look at the intricacies of cameras and ways to use them.

Design Technology – Product Manufacture:
Learn about natural disaster food relief.
Design an emergency aid ‘drop bag’.

STEM – Fastest car:
Research, design and make a model F1 car.
Compete in teams to create the fastest. Who will win?

Food Tech – the Balanced Plate:
Develop cutting and cooking skills, making a mixture of savoury and sweet dishes.
Learn about food provenance and prepare a range of family meals.

Ed4Life

Money, business skills, Tenner Challenge preparation.

English

Gothic Horror:
A variety of extracts, poems and short stories.
Understanding and analysing how features are used to create a genre.
Looking at how language and other literary techniques are used to create tone and setting.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth:
Discussing and analysing how characters develop over the course of the play.
Making links to historical context to understand the plot and analysing Shakespeare’s language to make meaning.

French

Les Sorties:
Building conversations with our friends about going out and what we like to do in our spare time, what we wear and opinions.

Geography

Restless Earth:
This topic focuses on earthquakes and volcanoes and how they are formed.
We study plate tectonics and how these impact the earth’s development and movement.
We also look at the causes, effects and responses to natural disasters in contrasting locations.

History

World War II:
This topic focuses on the events that led to WWII, the significant individuals involved and their impact on society. We consider the challenges that WWII created for Britain, Europe and the wider world, looking at case studies on dictators during this time.

Life Skills

Money skills, financial literacy, budgeting etc.

Maths

Calculating interior and exterior angles of polygons.
Measuring and drawing angles.
Constructing perpendicular bisectors & angle bisectors.
Identifying alternate & corresponding angles on parallel lines.
Using and finding bearings.
Converting between different measurements of units.
Calculating area of a trapezium.
Calculating the area and circumference of a circle.
Finding surface area of cuboids and prisms.
Finding the volume of cuboids and prisms.

PE

Games:
Including football, basketball, handball, badminton, lacrosse, tag rugby, ultimate frisbee and netball.
Pupils will develop their skills and learn tactics to help them with attacking and defending in game situations.

Gymnastics:
Group sequences based on a self-chosen theme.

Philosophy

Modern Society:
The place of non-religion and increasing numbers, understanding religious complexity in the Western world.

Leaders:
Discover how faith & qualities influence(d); Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Science

Reproduction:
In this topic we look at the structure and function of the human reproductive systems.
We look at the ‘mechanics’ of gamete production, pregnancy and birth.

Genetics and Evolution:
We look at DNA, genes, chromosomes and how variation is caused.
We look at similarities and differences between humans.
We briefly look at natural selection and extinction.

Reactions and reactivity:
In this topic we look at the periodic table, properties of different materials and different types of reactions.

Options

Pupils have the opportunity to complete additional learning in a variety of subjects/topics, choosing two. Information is sent out prior to the academic year.