English

An Inspector Calls:
analysing morality plays; monologue; denouement; tension and suspense manipulation; props; lighting; costume

** Literature and language units extend across the term

Fiction: analysing and creating action sequences; characters arcs; structural repetition and circularity; zoo/anthropomorphism

Maths

Delta
Similarity and Congruence
Equations and Inequalities

Theta
Averages and Range
Graphs

Delta
Probability

Theta
Probability

Science

Biology: B5 Non-communicable diseases: cancer, smoking and disease, diet and exercise, alcohol and carcinogens

Chemistry: C4 Chemical Calculations
Exploring the mathematical links between the world of the atom, and the world we can see.

Determining Relative Formula mass and number of moles, titrations, concentrations, limiting reactants, yield and atom economy

Physics: Energy Transfer
Learn about the factors that affect the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of an object and be able to calculate this amount of energy. Learn about what Infra-red radiation and how this is absorbed by objects. Learn about the effect of insulation to prevent heat loss in buildings.

Biology: B6 B7 Preventing and treating disease: vaccinations, antibiotics, painkillers, new drugs, stages of drug development and non communicable diseases.

Chemistry: C4 Chemical Calculations
Exploring the mathematical links between the world of the atom, and the world we can see.

Determining Relative Formula mass and number of moles, titrations, concentrations, limiting reactants, yield and atom economy

Physics: Energy Resources
Learn about different types of energy resources. Students will learn about energy demands and power generation and renewable energy resources.

Computer Science

Unit 1 - Algorithms
Decomposition and abstraction. Algorithms, flowcharts and pseudo-code.

Unit 1 - Algorithms
Specific algorithms for sorting and searching, including the bubble and merge sorts.

Geography

The Challenge of Natural Hazards
UK extreme weather.

Climate Change: evidence, causes, effects, mitigation & adaptation.

The Living World
Ecosystems: distribution, food webs, nutrient cycling, small and large scale ecosystem case studies.

The Living World
Tropical rainforests: location, characteristics, interdependency, biodiversity, adaptations.

Deforestation: causes, effects, sustainable management.

History

Cold War crises, 1958-1970
Berlin crisis and Berlin Wall; Cuban Missile Crisis; Prague Spring;

Focus: Causation; Consequence; Significance

End of the Cold War, 1970-1991
Détente; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Reagan and Second Cold War; Gorbachev and end of the USSR;

Focus: Causation; Consequence; Significance

French

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest
Unit 5 Home, town, neighbourhood and region.

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 5 Home, town, neighbourhood and region.

German

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest
Unit 5 Home, town, neighbourhood and region.

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 5 Home, town, neighbourhood and region.

Spanish

Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest
Unit 5 Home, town, neighbourhood and region.

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 5 Home, town, neighbourhood and region.

Art/Photography

Component 1. Portfolio
Students choose their theme of the coursework: still life, landscape, portrait or organic forms. Students develop their component 1. Students explore the work of artists/photographers (assessment objective 1, 3)

Component 1. Portfolio
Students choose their theme of the coursework: still life, landscape, portrait or organic forms. Students develop their component 1. Students explore the work of artists/photographers (assessment objective 1, 3)

Business Studies

Theme 1 – 1.4 Making the business effective - Part 2
The marketing mix and how elements of marketing mix work together

The role of business plans and the purpose of business planning

Theme 1 – 1.5 Understanding external influences on business – Part 1
Business stakeholders and how they impact business decisions and activity

Different types of technology and their influence on business activity

Legislation and impact of legislation on businesses

Citizenship

Theme B1 – Democracy at work in the UK
Political ideologies and parties

Voting systems

The organisation of government

House of Commons and making legislation

Theme B2 – Democracy at work in the UK
The roles and purpose of the executive, legislative, judiciary, monarchy, and civil service

Methods and reasons for holding those in power to account including the role of the House of Lords

Child Development

Unit R058: Create a safe environment and understand the nutritional needs of children from birth to five years

Topic Area 1: Creating a safe environment in a childcare setting
Reasons why accidents happen, types of accidents, planning to prevent accidents.

Unit R058: Create a safe environment and understand the nutritional needs of children from birth to five years

Topic Area 2: Choosing suitable equipment for a childcare setting
Types of essential equipment, factors affecting suitability and choice

Dance

Theory: Section A
General Dance

Practical: Performance
Set Phrase Breathe

Theory: Section A and Section B
General Dance and 6 mark questions

Performance:
Set Phrase Flux

Design Technology

Textiles Core and in-depth knowledge.

Smart and Modern Materials

Practical: Wash bag

Designing principles

CAD/CAM

Textiles: Prototyping Paper dresses for the catwalk

Natural and manufactured timbers: Methods of joining

New and Emerging Technologies: Production techniques and systems

Drama

Component 1: Devising
Creating and developing ideas to communicate meaning for theatrical performance, as a response to stimuli.

Component 1: Devising
Rehearsal and refinement.

Exploring genre, form, structure, character, structure and language.

Fashion and Textiles

Knowledge of sewing equipment, printing and methods of embellishment

Designs inspired by a theme

Component 1: Portfolio

Project: Natural Forms

Brief: Design and make a mixed media installation piece showing skills from Design Craft, Fashion and Textiles and Visual Arts that is inspired by natural forms.

Research, develop, explore and analyse the work of others.

Show experimentation, risk-taking, drawing and the application of the formal elements

Component 1: Portfolio

Project: Natural Forms

Brief: Design and make a mixed media installation piece showing skills from Design Craft, Fashion and Textiles and Visual Arts that is inspired by natural forms.

Refine and reflect upon work as it progresses by exploring ideas.

Gather, select, organise and communicate information that is relevant.

Show samples, testing and development of ideas.

Reflect on work in progress

Create a personal and imaginative final outcome, that effectively realises the design brief

Hospitality and Catering

Understand the environment in which hospitality and catering providers operate

Describe the structure of the hospitality and catering industry

Food Spoilage

Analyse job requirements within the hospitality and catering industry

Describe working conditions of different job roles across the hospitality and catering industry

Explain factors affecting the success of hospitality and catering providers

Media Studies

Advertising and Marketing (Paper 1, Section A)

Quality Street and This Girl Can adverts

Film Marketing and Media Industries (Paper 1, Section A and B)

Man with a Golden Gun and Spectre posters, Bond 007 website

Music

Musical Forms and Devices - AoS 1
Set work analysis all music elements in Badinerie by J.S. Bach
Wider listening – Baroque era focus
Identifying musical structures
Identifying and using compositional devices
Year 10 GCSE composition programme
Solo and Ensemble performance

PE (GCSE)

Practical: Netball

Theory: Physical training
3.1 Health and fitness
3.2 Components of fitness

Practical: Badminton / trampolining & coursework fitness programme

Theory: Physical training
3.3 Principles of training
3.6 Warm up and cool down

PE (Core)

Trampolining
Develop core skills in isolation and developed through a routine.

Fitness
Understanding the importance of leading a healthy active lifestyle.

Net sports - Badminton or volleyball
Develop a range of core skills in isolation and perform rules and tactics in a game situation.

Games - Basketball, handball, football or netball
Develop a range of core skills in isolation and perform rules and tactics in a game situation.

Religious Studies

10.1 Living the Christian Life
Exploring the impact of belief on the life of Christians, including the role of sacraments, prayer, pilgrimage and celebration. Consideration of the role of the local Church and the future of the worldwide Church.

10.2 Matters of Life and Death
Thematic unit covering the origins and value of the universe, including religious beliefs on the sanctity of life. Topics in medical ethics, including abortion and euthanasia.

Sociology

Education
The Roles and Functions of Education

Education
Factors affecting educational achievement

Social class, gender and ethnicity

English

Jekyll & Hyde: analysing stock characters/foils; red herrings; epistolary mode

Non-Fiction: analysing and creating anecdote, expert opinion, antithesis; synthesising texts; comparing sources

Maths

Delta
Multiplicative reasoning

Theta
Ratio and Proportion

Delta
Further Trigonometry

Theta
Right angled triangles

Science

Biology: B8 Bioenergetics: Photosynthesis and factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis. How plants use glucose.

Chemistry
C6 Electrolysis
Looking at the process of electrolysis and its uses in industry

Physics: Electric circuits
Learn how to build electric circuits, knowing different types of components and their behaviour with changing in current and voltage.

Students will understand the difference between series and parallel circuits and know how these circuits can be used in everyday life.

Biology: B9 Bioenergetics: Aerobic respiration, our bodies’ response to exercise and anaerobic respiration.

Adaptations, interdependence and competition: distribution and abundance, competition and adaptation

Chemistry
C7 Energy Changes
Identifying the difference between exothermic and endothermic reactions, and calculating the energy change of a reaction

Physics: Electricity in the Home

Students will be able to compare alternating current (a.c.) traces in terms of period and amplitude (voltage).

Students will learn about cables and plugs in terms of their physical and electrical properties. Students will look at various home appliances and will be able to compare energy usage and efficiency of appliances

Computer Science

Unit 2A - Programming Basics/Techniques
Programming fundamentals and data types and operations using pseudocode

Unit 2A - Programming Basics/Techniques
Programming fundamentals, sequence and selection, iteration, arrays and records using

Pseudocode

Geography

The Living World
Cold Environments: location, characteristics, biodiversity, adaptations.

Alaska: opportunities, challenges, oil.

Protecting wilderness environments.

Urban Challenges
Global Pattern of urban change.

Urban growth in Nigeria.

Lagos: growth, opportunities & challenges, management.

History

The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933

The Weimar constitution; The Treaty of Versailles; Hyperinflation; Stresemann and the Golden Age of the Republic;

Focus: Causation, Interpretations

Hitler’s rise to power, 1919-1933

The early Nazi Party, the lean years and Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor.
 

Focus: Causation; Interpretations

French

Theme 2 - Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 6- Social issues
Charity/voluntary work
Healthy/unhealthy living

Theme 2 - Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 7 -Global issues
The environment
Poverty/homelessness

German

Theme 2 - Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 6- Social issues
Charity/voluntary work
Healthy/unhealthy living

Theme 2 - Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 7 -Global issues
The environment
Poverty/homelessness

Spanish

Theme 2 - Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 6- Social issues
Charity/voluntary work
Healthy/unhealthy living

Theme 2 - Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 7 -Global issues
The environment
Poverty/homelessness

Art/Photography

Component 1. Portfolio
Students continue working into their coursework, developing assessment objectives 1,2,3

Component 1. Portfolio
Students continue working into their coursework, developing assessment objectives 1,2,3

Business Studies

Theme 1 – 1.5 Part 2
The economy and the economic impact on businesses, including impact of interest rates, inflation, exchange rates and government taxation

The importance of external influences on businesses and possible business responses to the changes in their environment

Theme 2 – 2.1 Growing the business
Business growth methods including internal and external growth

Sources of finance that are appropriate for a growing business

How business aims and objectives change when a business grows

The impact of globalisation on businesses

Ethics, the business environment and considerations by businesses

Citizenship

Theme A3 – Local power and Finance
The role of local and national government in providing the public sector needs to all communities within the UK

Taxation and public sector spending

Theme B3 – Democracy at work in the UK
The role of the Magna Carta in shaping democracy

The British constitution compared to the American constitution

Child Development

Unit R058: Create a safe environment and understand the nutritional needs of children from birth to five years

Topic Area 3: Nutritional needs of children from birth to five years

Current Government dietary recommendations for healthy eating for children from birth to five years, essential nutrients and their functions for children from birth to five years.

Unit R058: Create a safe environment and understand the nutritional needs of children from birth to five years

Topic Area 3: Nutritional needs of children from birth to five years

Plan for preparing a feed/meal, how to evaluate planning and preparation of a feed/meal.

Dance

Theory: Section C
Analysis of Infra

Practical: Performance
Performance piece based on Infra

Theory: Section C
Analysis of Artificial Things

Practical: Performance
Performance piece based on Artificial Things

Design Technology

NEA Preparation

Advanced skills workshop demonstrations
Design questions
Research techniques
Questionnaires and analysis

NEA Preparation

Designing for different needs
Character profiles and target markets
Design brief
Design Specification

Drama

Component 1: Devising
Devised performance exam with subsequent analysis and evaluation of work.

Completion of accompanying portfolio.

Component 3: DNA 6 Elements
Revising and developing understanding of design elements as applied to the exam text.

Fashion and Textiles

Component 1: Portfolio

Project: Designing for a client: Grayson Perry the maximalist.

Brief: Develop 2D designs and fashion illustrations for Grayson dress/robe and headpiece to be worn at UCLA graduation ceremony.

Develop 3D textile samples to accompany 2D outcomes and full-scale headpiece.

Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources.

Component 1: Portfolio

Project: Designing for a client: Grayson Perry the maximalist.

Brief: Develop 2D designs and fashion illustrations for Grayson dress/robe and headpiece to be worn at UCLA graduation ceremony.

Develop 3D textile samples to accompany 2D outcomes and full-scale headpiece.

Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes.

Hospitality and Catering

Understand how hospitality and catering provision meets health and safety requirements

Describe personal safety responsibilities in the workplace Identify risks to personal safety in hospitality and catering

Recommend personal safety control measures for hospitality and catering provision

Deboning and Filleting

Media Studies

Film Marketing and Media Industries (Paper 1, Section A and B)
Man with a Golden Gun and Spectre posters, Bond 007 website

Video Games (Paper 1 Section B)
Fortnite (2017) Selected key pages from the Fortnite website, including the homepage and at least two other pages.

Coursework research and planning

Music

Music for Ensembles - A0S 2
Study of musical styles for different ensembles – Musical theatre, Jazz, Blues, Rock n roll, Chamber Music
Wider listening Classical and Romantic focus
Identifying instruments and describing texture revisited
Year 10 GCSE composition programme
Starting GCSE Free compositions
Solo and Ensemble Performances

PE (GCSE)

Coursework
Football & coursework fitness programme

Personal Exercise Programme

Coursework
Handball & coursework fitness programme

Personal Exercise Programme

PE (Core)

Trampolining
Develop core skills in isolation and developed through a routine.

Fitness
Understanding the importance of leading a healthy active lifestyle.

Net sports - Badminton or volleyball
Develop a range of core skills in isolation and perform rules and tactics in a game situation.

Games - Basketball, handball, football or netball
Develop a range of core skills in isolation and perform rules and tactics in a game situation.

Religious Studies

10.2 Matters of Life and Death
Thematic unit covering the origins and value of the universe, including religious beliefs on the sanctity of life. Topics in medical ethics, including abortion and euthanasia.

10.3 Living the Muslim Life
Exploring the impact of belief on the life of Muslims, including the Ten Obligatory Acts of Shi’a Islam, the Five Pillars of Islam, celebrations and commemorations.

Sociology

Education
Educational policies and types of schooling

Social stratification
Sociological views on stratification, social class and life chances

English

Love and Relationship/Unseen
Poetry: analysing sonnets; metre; stanza and line forms; eye/internal rhymes

Getting to Grips with Language: analysing and creating high quality literary devices; drafting techniques

Maths

Delta
Further Statistics

Theta
Multiplicative reasoning

Delta
Equations and graphs

Theta
Quadratic equations and graphs

Science

Biology: B10 Biological responses
Principles of homeostasis and the human nervous system.

Chemistry
C9 (C10, C11 Triple only) Organic Chemistry
Introduction to organic chemistry.

Identifying hydrocarbons and their reactions and uses

Cracking of hydrcarbons

Fractional distillation of hydrocarbons

Uses of polymers

Reactions involving carboxylic acids and alcohols

Physics: Molecules and Matter
Students will learn about the structure of matter in terms of density. Students will learn about changes of state and latent heat as well as internal energy of matter. Students will learn about the Gas Laws relating pressure, volume and temperature.

Biology: B11 Biological responses
Hormonal coordination. The control of blood sugar levels, how hormones affect the menstrual cycle and plant hormones.

Chemistry: C9 (C10, C11 Triple only) Organic Chemistry
Introduction to organic chemistry.

Identifying hydrocarbons and their reactions and uses

Cracking of hydrcarbons

Fractional distillation of hydrocarbons

Uses of polymers

Reactions involving carboxylic acids and alcohols

Physics: Radioactivity
Students will learn about different type of radioactivity, their uses and dangers. Students will learn about the nucleus of an atom and how it was discovered. Students will learn about radioactive decay as well as Nuclear fission and fusion (triple science only)

Computer Science

Unit 2B - Programming Basics/Techniques
Procedures and functions, validation and authentications

Unit 2B - Programming Basics/Techniques
Purpose of algorithms, errors and testing

Pseudocode techniques

Geography

Urban Challenges
Urban challenges in the UK.
UK population distribution.
London: history, population growth and diversity.

Urban Challenges
London: redevelopment, opportunities, challenges & management.

Fieldwork: human fieldwork investigation and write up

History

Nazi control & dictatorship, 1933-1939
The police state, propaganda and opposition to the Nazis.

Focus: Causation; Interpretations

Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939
Nazi economic and social policy

Focus: Causation; Interpretations

French

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 8 - Travel and tourism: holiday destinations, holiday preferences holiday in details, holiday activities.

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 8 - Travel and tourism : visiting different places in France, visiting French towns and cities

German

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 8 - Travel and tourism : holiday destinations, holiday preferences holiday in details, holiday activities.

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 8 - Travel and tourism : visiting different places in Germany, visiting German towns and cities

Spanish

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 8 - Travel and tourism : holiday destinations, holiday preferences holiday in details, holiday activities.

Theme 2- Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Unit 8 - Travel and tourism : visiting different places in Spain, visiting Spanish towns and cities

Art/Photography

Component 1. Portfolio
Students continue working into their coursework, developing assessment objectives 1, 2, 3 & 4. Some will start 2^nd unit of work

Component 1. Portfolio
Students continue working into their coursework, developing assessment objectives 1, 2, 3 & 4. Some will start 2^nd unit of work

Business Studies

Theme 2 – 2.2 Making marketing decisions – Part 1
Product element of marketing mix; including the design mix, product life cycle, extension strategies, importance of differentiation

Price element of the marketing mix; including pricing strategies and factors influencing pricing decisions

Place element of the marketing mix; including methods of distribution

Theme 2 – 2.2 - Part 2 Promotion element of the marketing mix; including appropriate promotion methods and strategies for different market and the use of technology in promotion

Using the marketing mix to make business decisions such as how each element can influence other elements, how they work together, how integrating the marketing mix can affect competitive advantage

Citizenship

Theme D3 – Political Engagement and Change
Digital political participation and the influence on democracy across the world

The role of pressure groups, NGOs and trade unions in enhancing political participation

Theme E – Taking Citizenship action
Choosing, researching, planning, developing skills and carrying out citizenship action on an issue of students' own choice to enact change or raise awareness on their selected topic.

Child Development

Unit R059: Understand the development of a child from one to five years

Topic Area 1: Physical, intellectual and social developmental norms from one to five years

Identifying specific development norms for each of the key age groups.

Unit R059: Understand the development of a child from one to five years

Topic Area 2: Stages and types of play and how play benefits development

What happens at each stage of play, the expected ages for each stage, the different types of play, how play benefits development.

Unit R057: Health and well-being for child development
Revision of this unit in preparation for summer exam.

Dance

Theory: Section C
Analysis of Within Her Eyes

Practical: Performance

Performance piece based on Within Her Eyes

Theory: Section A & B
6 mark questions

Practical:

Performance Piece

Exam Dance - Duo/Trio Performance

Design Technology

NEA Preparation

Focussed practical tasks and techniques workshops

Preparation for Exam Question 6 – In depth knowledge (25 marks)

Focussed practical tasks and techniques workshops

Preparation for Exam Question 6 (25 marks)

NEA GCSE Task release date: 1^st June

Drama

Component 3
DNA: performer & director
Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how drama and theatre is developed and performed.

Component 3
Live Theatre Evaluation
Analysing and evaluating the work of others.

Fashion and Textiles

Component 1: Portfolio

Project: Designing for a client: Grayson Perry the maximalist.

Brief: Develop 2D designs and fashion illustrations for Grayson dress/robe and headpiece to be worn at UCLA graduation ceremony.

Develop 3D textile samples to accompany 2D outcomes and full-scale headpiece.

Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to ideas as the work progresses.

Component 1: Portfolio

Project: Designing for a client: Grayson Perry the maximalist.

Brief: Develop 2D designs and fashion illustrations for Grayson dress/robe and headpiece to be worn at UCLA graduation ceremony.

Develop 3D textile samples to accompany 2D outcomes and full-scale headpiece.

Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates an understanding of visual language.

Hospitality and Catering

The role and responsibilities of the Environmental Health Officer (EHO) Food safety legislation

Common types of food poisoning

Symptoms of food induced ill health

Catering Contracts

Devise plans and cook for events

Options for hospitality and catering provision

Free Foods and Fairtrade

Media Studies

Continuation of Video Games (Paper 1 Section B)

Fortnite (2017) Selected key pages from the Fortnite website, including the homepage and at least two other pages.

Radio (Paper 1 Section B)

BBC Radio 4 – The Archers
One complete episode of The Archers and selected key pages from The Archers website.

Coursework research and planning

Continuation of Radio (Paper 1 Section B)

BBC Radio 4 – The Archers
One complete episode of The Archers and selected key pages from The Archers website.

Coursework research and planning

Music

GCSE Consolidation
AoS 3 Film Music revisited

The exam 10 mark question revisited

GCSE Free compositions continued

Critical listening skills

Solo and Ensemble Performances (preparation for Year 11 NEA)

Exam technique

PE (GCSE)

Practical:
Athletics

Theory: Physical training
3.5 Injuries and Performance Enhancing Drugs

Practical:
Cricket

Theory: Movement analysis
2.1 Levers
2.2 Planes and axes

PE (Core)

Athletics
Develop a range of core skills in isolation across a variety of events.

Rounders/Cricket
Develop a range of core skills in isolation and perform rules and tactics in a game situation.

Street Sports
Develop a range of core skills in isolation and in group challenges across a variety of street sports.

Religious Studies

10.4 Peace and Conflict
Thematic unit covering what peace is and the impact of peace and conflict in the world today. Study of the Just War Theory and Holy war, and an exploration of ethical questions surrounding conflict.

Sociology

Social stratification
Poverty as a social issue

Social stratification
Power and authority and power relationships between social groups