What we teach when at Key Stage 3
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Key Stage 3 Curriculum Overview
| HT1 | HT2 | HT3 | HT4 | HT5 | HT6 | ||
| Art | Colour Theory | Line and Texture | Value, Form and Shape | Contextual Research | Observational Drawing | Technical Drawing | |
| Computer Science | Introduction to the school network | Clear messaging in digital media | Networks: from semaphores to the internet | Programming essentials in Scratch: variable, selection, a condition, and
iteration |
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| Design & Technology | Product Design Materials and working properties: metals & polymers | Project: aluminium and acrylic key fob CAD/CAM: laserCAM intro to 2D design | Materials and working properties:
timbers |
Project: wood storage box CAD/CAM:
laserCAM etching |
Materials and working properties: paper and boards. Developing graphic skills. | Project: Avatar characters CAD/CAM:
laserCAM nets |
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| Drama | Introduction to drama | Physical Theatre | Approaches to text | Introduction to Shakespeare | Devising from a stimulus | Practical exploration of devising and rehearsal | |
| English | The Bone Sparrow | The Bone Sparrow | Literary Allusions | Introduction to Shakespeare | Identity Poetry | The Art of Rhetoric | |
| Food and Nutrition | Food safety and hygiene:
storage, safe food preparation, intro to food science |
Cooking methods:
heat transfer and cooking techniques |
Nutrition:
The Eatwell guide, fats and sugar |
Nutrition: salts, fibre and water, active lifestyles and
health |
Nutrition : protein, portion control, healthy choices | Food provenance: fair trade and food miles | |
| Geography | Our world and map skills | Africa – a diverse continent | Global water issues | ||||
| History | Measuring Time | The Normans | Medieval Life | Medieval England – Power and the People | The Tudors | ||
| Maths | Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, rounding and estimation
Geometry: Time and Timetables |
Number: Prime factorisation, applying square, cube or roots to a number. Calculating fractions and percentages of amounts.
Geometry: Ordering measurements |
Number: calculations with negative numbers, rounding, choosing the correct order of operations, converting between fractions, decimals and percentages.
Algebra: form an expression, simplifying, substitution |
Number: Finding missing inputs and outputs in number machines. Continuing sequences
Algebra: Describing sequences algebraically (nth term), solving equations |
Algebra: Forming equations in context of angles, area and perimeter.
Geometry: Symmetry, Calculating missing angles, giving reasons for missing angles in diagrams, calculating area and perimeter, calculating with bearings |
Statistics: Interpreting and Representing Data | |
| MFL:
French |
All about me | Festivals and traditions | A trip to Paris | ||||
| MFL:
German |
Festivals and traditions | A trip to Berlin | All about me | ||||
| MFL:
Spanish |
A trip to Barcelona | All about me | Festivals and traditions | ||||
| Music | Elements of Music | African Rhythm | Keyboard Skills | Instruments of the Orchestra | Programme Music | Cliches | |
| Religion Ethics and Philosophy | Intro to REP and the Prophets | Devotion and Community | Eastern Faiths | ||||
| Science | Forces Particle nature of matter | Energy Atoms, elements, and compounds | Pure & impure Chemical changes Cells | Food & digestion
Sound |
Reproduction Variation Electricity | Ecology Human impacts | |
| HT1 | HT2 | HT3 | HT4 | HT5 | HT6 | |||||||||
| Art | Context and Culture | Pattern and Illustration | New Media and Craft | Contextual Research | Illustration | Contemporary Portraiture | ||||||||
| Computer Science | Developing for the web | Representations: from Clay to Silicon | Mobile App Development | Media: Vector Graphics | Computing Systems | Introduction to Python programming | ||||||||
| Design & Technology Product Design | Product Design Sustainability, the environment and the 6 “R’s” | Project: passive speaker
Sound waves, amplitude and frequency |
Project: recycled jar lamp
Electronics, systems and components. Designers past and present |
Project: board game Biomimicry,
prototyping and finishing techniques. CAD/CAM: 3D printing |
Emerging technologies, design and enterprise skills | Project: engineering challenge Motion, mechanisms and levers.
CAD/CAM: laserCAM and/or 3D printing |
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| Design & Technology Textiles Technology | Textile Technology Fibres to fabrics, material properties and structures | Textile decorative workshops.
Culture and identity |
Project:
e-textiles skull key fob Systems, circuits and intelligent clothing |
Rotation with Food and Nutrition course | ||||||||||
| Drama | Storytelling | Melodrama | Practical work – bullying theme | Refugee Boy | Stand up for your rights | Practical exploration of devising and rehearsal | ||||||||
| English | The Woman in Black | The Woman in Black | Much Ado About Nothing | Much Ado About Nothing | Time and Place Poetry | Character Writing | ||||||||
| Food and Nutrition | Rotation with Design and Technology: Textiles Technology | Food provenance: staple foods. Food Science: functional properties of
ingredients |
Nutrition: food choices,
nutrition through life-stages, dietary needs |
Nutrition: understanding the science to make the right choices both for health and function | ||||||||||
| Geography | Our hazardous world | Urban issues | Cold environments | |||||||||||
| History | The Stuarts | The Industrial Revolution | The British Empire and the Slave Trade | |||||||||||
| Maths | Number: Round to a given degree of accuracy. Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. Calculating percentages of amounts.
Statistics: calculating averages |
Number: Converting between index form and expanded form. Calculating with indices, simplifying with indices
Algebra: Expand brackets, factorise expressions. Solve equations with fractions. Substitution into expressions, finding the nth term |
Algebra: substitution. Recognising the gradient and y intercept of a straight line graph, drawing inequalities, drawing straight line graphs, describing inequalities | Ratio and Proportion : calculating with ratio,
Representing and compare data in pie charts |
Geometry:
Angles within parallel lines Bearings. Angles in triangles and polygons and mensuration of circles. Area of 2D shapes |
Geometry:
Transformations of shapes. Statistics: Scatter graphs, Probability: basics of probability |
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| MFL:
French/ German/ Spanish |
My family and friends | My hobbies | My school | Where I live | ||||||||||
| Music | Rotation
The Blues/Remix |
Rotation
Structure and Form/Minimalism |
Rotation
Samba/Hip Hop |
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| Religion Ethics and Philosophy | Where do we come from | Why do we suffer? | Where are we going? | Humanism and World Views | ||||||||||
| Science | Motion Energy
Acids and Alkalis |
Chemical Reactions 2, Photosynthesis | Electricity, respiration | Light | Inheritance and evolution, earth structure and rocks | Earth and atmosphere Space | ||||||||
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| Art | Observation/Pastiche | Paint and Ink workshops | Graphic Design | Contextual Research | Graphic Illustration | 3D Design | |||||||||||||
| Computer Science | Python Programming with sequences of data | Physical Programming | Cyber Security | ||||||||||||||||
| Design & Technology Product Design | Product Design Typography, branding, manufacturing techniques: vacuum forming | Project: designing a gift
product for a client CAD/CAM: laserCAM nets |
The work of others, mechanical and physical properties, manufacturing techniques: casting | Project: pewter jewellery
The work of others, design movements and packaging |
Project: habitats Designing for a client – “The National Trust” | Rapid prototyping: 3D printing laserCAM, iterative design process | |||||||||||||
| Design & Technology Textiles Technology | Textile Technology The work of others, pattern
repeats and industrial printing techniques |
Project:
e-textiles USB desk lamp for a high street store |
Combining materials and their properties to produce a working product | Rotation with Food and Nutrition course | |||||||||||||||
| Drama | Teechers by John Godber | Pantomime | Theatrical style and convention | Willy Russell | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Summer scripted performance | |||||||||||||
| English | Macbeth | Macbeth | The Book Thief | The Book Thief | Powerful Voices | Short Story Writing | |||||||||||||
| Food and Nutrition | Rotation with Design and Technology: Textiles Technology course | Food science: pastry, function of ingredients and quality control | Food Science: functional properties of bread and the foaming qualities of eggs | Food science: dairy, gelatinisation and cooking techniques | |||||||||||||||
| Geography | Our unequal world | Our hazardous world | Coastal landscapes | ||||||||||||||||
| History | Britain and the First World War | 1920s America | Nazi Germany | The Second World War | The Cold War | ||||||||||||||
| Maths | Number:
HCF and LCM Standard Form Powers and Roots Fractions Decimals and Percentages Compound interest. Indices Number: HCF and LCM Standard Form Powers and Roots Fractions Decimals and Percentages Compound interest. Indices |
Number: Calculating with fractions in context
Algebra: Solving equations, Rearranging formula, substitution into formula. Geometry: calculating surface area and volume of 3D shapes. . |
Number: Inputs and outputs for functions.
Algebra: straight line graphs. Geometry: calculating compound measures
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Algebra: Inequalities and simultaneous equations
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Geometry: Pythagoras’ theorem
Statistics: Data processing and averages. (grouped data) Displaying Data
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Probability
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| MFL:
French/German/ Spanish |
Next weekend | Holidays in the present and past | Jobs and future plans | Healthy living | Media | ||||||||||||||
| Music | Rotation
Reggae/Film Music |
Rotation
Pop Music/Composition to a Brief |
Rotation
Made in Manchester/Dance Music |
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| Religion Ethics
and Philosophy |
What are Ethics? | Medical and Social Ethics | Fighting for Justice | The Holocaust | War and Conflict | ||||||||||||||
| Science | Biology: Cell structure
Chemistry: Earth materials, Mixtures
Physics: Energy transfers, Work done |
Biology: The digestive system
Chemistry: Atomic structure
Physics: Energy sources, Particle model and behaviour |
Biology: The respiratory system, the circulatory system
Chemistry: The periodic table
Physics: Current, p.d. & resistance |
Biology: The skeletal and muscular systems
Chemistry: Rates of reaction
Physics: Forces and their effects, Moments |
Biology: Health
Chemistry: Materials and their properties
Physics: Transverse and longitudinal waves |
Biology: Green biology
Chemistry: Green chemistry
Physics: Magnetic fields & Electromagnetism |
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