Art

Skills
Students explore various ways of expressive drawing, painting.

Introduction to A-level Art

Skills
Students explore various ways of expressive drawing, painting.

Introduction to A-level Art

Biology

Biological molecules
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Enzymes
Factors affecting enzyme action
Nucleic acids (RNA and DNA)
Energy and ATP
Water and its functions

Cell structure and division
Cell structure
The cell cycle
Transport across cell membranes
Cell recognition and the immune system
Defence mechanisms

Business Studies (A Level)

Theme 1: Marketing and People
1.1 Meeting customer needs
1.5 Entrepreneurs and leaders

Exam skills

Theme 1: Marketing and People
1.3 Marketing mix and strategy
1.2 The market: demand, supply, PED, YED

Exam skills

Business Studies (BTEC)

Unit 3: Personal and Business Finance

Personal finance:
A1 - Functions and role of money
A2 - Different ways to pay
A3 – Current accounts
A4 – Managing personal finance

Business finance:
C1 – The purpose of accounting
C2 – Types of income
C3 – Types of expenditure
D1 – Sources of finance

Unit 3: Personal and Business Finance

Personal finance:
B1 – Features of financial institutions
B2 – Communicating with customers
B3 – Consumer protection
B4 – Information, guidance and advice for personal finance

Business finance:
E1 – Cash flow forecasts
E2 – Breakeven analysis
F1 – Financial accounts and statements

Chemistry

Module 2
Foundations in Chemistry
Atomic structure
Calculating Isotopic Abundance from m/z
Using the mole
The ideal gas equation
Introduction to acids and titration calculations

Module 2
Foundations in Chemistry
Electron orbitals
Shapes of Molecules
Bonding (induced and permanent)
Hydrogen bonding

Computer Science

Unit 1: components of a computer
Structure and Function of Processor, Types of Processors, Input, Output and storage

Unit 2: Systems software
Functions of an operating system, nature of applications and programming language translators

Criminology

Unit 1
Different types of crime and unreported crime
Media representations of crime
Statistics on crime

Unit 1
Campaigns for change
Plan a campaign for change relating to crime

Dance (BTEC Performing Arts)

Unit 2 – Developing Skills for Live Performance

Unit 3 – Group Performance Workshop

Drama and Theatre Studies

Component 3:
Section B – That Face
Section C – Woyzeck & Brecht

Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how drama and theatre is developed and performed.

Component 1
Devising: Frantic Assembly / Script Extract
Creating original performance, using the methodology of a named practitioner (Frantic Assembly) in response to an extract from a play text.

English Literature

Knowledge about Drama: analysing Greek and modern tragedies; realism; expressionism; Aristotelian Three Unities; Climactic and Episodic plots; proxemics and overheard

Knowledge about Drama continued:
conversations; academic instruction on planning, thesis introductions; contextual/typicality and perspective commentaries; conclusions

Film Studies

Introduction to course and Introduction to film analysis.

Paper 1 Section B: American Film Since 2005
Mainstream Film: No Country for Old Men

Continuation of Paper 1 Section B: American Film Since 2005
Mainstream Film: No Country for Old Men

Paper 1 Section A – Hollywood 1930-1990 Classical Hollywood film: The Lady from Shanghai (Welles,1947)

Introduction to filming and editing.

Government and Politics

Government and politics of the UK
The Constitution
emocracy and participation

Government and politics of the UK
The judiciary
Devolution
Parliament

Health and Social Care (BTEC)

Introduction to Course

Unit 1: Human Lifespan Development

Unit 2: Working in Health and Social Care

Unit 1: Human Lifespan Development

Unit 2: Working in Health and Social Care

History

Early Tudors
Henry VII: accession and threats

Russia 1894-1941
The character, skills and early rule of Nicholas I

Civil Rights in USA
African Americans and the reconstruction period

Early Tudors
Henry VII: government and security

Russia 1894-1941
The 1905 revolution and constitutional period

Civil Rights in USA
African American civil rights in the early 20^th century

Law

English Legal system
Introduction to Course
Parliament and Law making
Delegated Legislation
Judiciary and Judicial precedent
Statutory interpretation

English Legal system
Criminal Courts system
EU Law
Law reform
Civil Courts and ADR
Legal personnel

Maths

Algebra 1
Kinematics 1

Algebra 2
Functions, Graphs & Transformations
Newton’s Laws & Forces 1

Music

Musical Theatre
Introduction to musical theatre and its recent developments
Critical listening skills
Study of set composers Rogers, Bernstein and Lloyd-Webber

Development of the Symphony
What is a symphony?
The early symphony Stamitz, J.C Bach, Mozart and Haydn
Haydn Symphony No.104 3^rd movement set work study
Score reading, error identification and dictation
Exam technique – comparative listening

Performance
Ongoing practice mock recital before Christmas

Composition
Step up to A Level harmony and tonality
A-Level Composition course

Philosophy

An Introduction to Epistemology
What is knowledge?

Normative Ethical Theories
Utilitarianism and Kantian deontological ethics

The Tripartite View of Knowledge
Philosophical theories about the structure of knowledge.

Normative Ethical Theories
Aristotelean Virtue Ethics

Photography

Exploring/learning about formal elements in photography. Introduction into A-level Photography

Exploring/learning about formal elements in photography. Introduction into A-level Photography

Physics

Module 2: Foundation of Physics
Learn about scalars and vectors, SI units calculating and estimating the uncertainty in calculation

Module 3.1: Motion
linear motion
Projectile motion
This unit provides knowledge and understanding of key ideas used to describe and analyse the motion of objects in both one-dimension and in two-dimensions. It also provides students with opportunities to develop their analytical and experimental skills.

Module 3.2: Forces in action

Dynamics and Mechanics
There are opportunities to consider contemporary applications of terminal velocity, moments, couples, pressure, and Archimedes principle

Module 4.1: Charge and current
Understand electric current and electrical circuits. The continuity equation (I = Anev) concludes with categorising all materials in terms of their ability to conduct

Psychology

Component 1: Introduction to Psychology - The Biological Approach:

Assumptions, Therapies and Classical Evidence

Component 1: The Psychodynamic Approach and the Behaviourist Approach:

Assumptions, Therapies and Classical Evidence

Sociology

Introduction to sociological theories
The role and functions of the education system
Theories on the family

Class differences in education
Gender differences in education
Changing family patterns and family diversity

Sport (BTEC)

Unit 1: Anatomy and Physiology

Unit 3: Professional Development in the Sports Industry- Coursework

Unit 1: Anatomy and Physiology

Mock exam

Unit 3: Professional Development in the Sports Industry- Coursework

Art

The personal investigation Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

The personal investigation Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

Biology

Organisms exchange substances with their environment
Human gas exchange system
Gas exchange in fish
Gas exchange in plants
Enzymes and digestion

Organisms exchange substances with their environment
Haemoglobin
The circulatory system and the heart
Transport in plants

Business Studies (A)

Theme 1: Marketing and People
1.4 Managing people

Recap and Exam skills

Theme 4: Global Business
4.1 Globalisation Part 1
4.2 Global markets and business expansion Part 1

Theme 4: Global Business
4.1 Globalisation Part 2

4.2 Global markets and business expansion Part 2

Exam skills

Business Studies (BTEC)

Unit 3 Exam preparation and exam in January

Unit 1: Exploring Business

Learning aim A: Explore the features of different businesses and their stakeholders and analyse what makes them successful

Unit 1: Exploring Business

Learning aim B: Investigate how businesses are organised, their structure, aims and objectives

Learning aim C: Examine the environment in which businesses operate

Chemistry

Module 3
Physical Chemistry
The Periodic table and periodicity
Ionisation energies
Group 2
Group 7
Identification of unknown ions through qualitative analysis
Disproportionation

Module 3
Physical Chemistry
Enthalpy calculations
Hess’ law
Reaction rates
Catalysts and the Boltzmann distribution
Reversible Reactions
The equilibrium constant

Computer Science

Unit 3: Software Development:
Systems analysis, writing algorithms and assembly language

Unit 4: Exchanging Data:
Compression and Hashing and Databases

Unit 5: Networks and Web Technologies
Structure of the Internet, Newtork security, HTML and CSS and Client-Server

Unit 6: Data Types
Binary and Hex, Binary arithmetic

Criminology

Controlled assessment preparation unit 1

Unit 2
The social construction of criminality

Unit 2

Biological, individualistic and sociological explanations of criminality

Dance (BTEC Performing Arts)

Unit 2 – Developing Skills for Live Performance

Unit 3 – Group Performance Workshop

Drama and Theatre Studies

Component 3:
Section B – That Face
Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how drama and theatre is developed and performed.

Component 1
Devising: Frantic Assembly / Script Extract
Creating original performance, using the methodology of a named practitioner (Frantic Assembly) in response to an extract from a play text.

English Literature

Knowledge about Novels: modernism and post-modernism; dystopia; modified and unreliable first person narrators; settings

Knowledge about Novels continued: character clusters and focalisation; Race/class/gender/ politics issues; modernist structures; self-reflexivity; intertextuality

Film Studies

Paper 1 Section A – Hollywood 1930-1990 New Hollywood film: Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)

Paper 1 Section B: American Film Since 2005
Independent Film: Winter’s Bone (Granik, 2010)

Practice Production Project

Continuation of Paper 1 Section B: American Film Since 2005
Independent Film: Winter’s Bone (Granik, 2010)

Paper 2 Section C: Silent Film Buster Keaton shorts - One Week (1920), The Scarecrow (1920), The 'High Sign' (1921) and Cops (1922)

Continuation of Practice Production Project

Government and Politics

Government and politics of the UK
Elections, referendums and voting behaviour
The Prime Minister and cabinet

Government and politics of the UK
Pressure groups
Political parties

Health and Social Care

Unit 1: Human Lifespan Development

Unit 2: Working in Health and Social Care

Unit 5: Meeting Individual Care & Support Needs

Unit 5: Meeting Individual Care & Support Needs

Unit 8: Promoting Public Health

History

Early Tudors
Henry VII: foreign policy

Russia 1894-1941
The February/March 1917 revolution

Civil Rights in USA
African Americans and the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement

Early Tudors
Henry VIII foreign policy to 1529

Russia 1894-1941
The period of Dual Power

Civil Rights in USA
African Americans in the 1970s and 1980s

Law

Concepts of Criminal law
The rule of law
Non-fatal offences against the person
Assault, battery, ABH s47, GBH s20, GBH s18.

Tort Law
The rules of Tort Law
Theory of Tort Law
Liability for physical injury to people and damage to property.

Maths

Coordinate Geometry
Binomial Expansion
Single Variable Data

Trigonometry 1
Bivariate Data & Correlation

Music

Musical Theatre
Critical listening skills
Study of set composers Sondheim, Schoenberg and Schwartz
Exam technique – the musical theatre essay

Development of the Symphony
Haydn Symphony No.104 1st movement set work study
Score reading, error identification and dictation
Exam technique – comparative listening
The development of the symphony Beethoven and Schubert

Performance
Ongoing practice mock recital before Easter

Composition
ALevel Composition course
Starting ALevel Free Compositions

Philosophy

Perception as a source of knowledge
Direct and indirect realism. Exploring Berkeley’s idealism.

Applied Ethics
Application and evaluation of utilitarianism, Kantian ethics and Aristotelean ethics to the contemporary ethical issue of stealing.

Reason as a source of knowledge
Understanding innatism, intuition and deduction thesis.

Applied Ethics
Application and evaluation of utilitarianism, Kantian ethics and Aristotelean ethics to the contemporary ethical issue of simulated killing.

Photography

The Personal Investigation
Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

The Personal Investigation
Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

Physics

Module 3.3: Work, energy and power
Understand the important link between work done and energy is explored and to apply the important principle of conservation of energy to a range of situations.

Module 4.2: Energy power and resistance
Students will learn understand the use of electrical symbols, electromotive force, potential difference, resistivity and power. The use scientific vocabulary to use energy saving devices, such as LED lamps, in homes. understand the link between environmental damage from power stations and the impetus to use energy saving devices in the home

Module 3.4: Materials
This section examines the physical properties of springs and materials. Learners can carry out a range of experimental work to enhance their knowledge and skills, including the management of risks and analysis of data to provide evidence for relationships between physical quantities.

Module 4.3: Electric circuits
Understanding of electrical circuits, internal resistance and potential dividers. LDRs and thermistors are used to show how changes in light intensity and temperature respectively can be monitored using potential dividers

Psychology

Component 1: The Cognitive Approach, and the Positive Approach:

Assumptions, Therapies and Classical Evidence

Component 2:
Introduction to research methods

Main methods

Descriptive Statistics

Sociology

Ethnic differences in education

Childhood

Educational policies

Gender roles in the family

Sport (BTEC)

Unit 1: Anatomy and Physiology

Unit 3: Professional Development in the Sports Industry - Coursework

Unit 1: Anatomy and Physiology

Exam revision and prep

Unit 3: Professional Development in the Sports Industry - Coursework

Art

The personal investigation
Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

The personal investigation Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

Biology

Genetic information, variation and relationships between organisms
DNA, genes and protein synthesis
Genetic diversity
Meiosis and types of selection
Biodiversity
Species and taxonomy
Quantitative investigations of variation

Energy transfer in and between organisms
Photosynthesis and respiration

Business Studies (A level)

Theme 4: Global Business 4.3 Global marketing Part 1
4.4 Global industries and companies – MNCs Part 1

Exam skills

Theme 4: Global Business 4.3 Global marketing Part 2
4.4 Global industries and companies – MNCs Part 2

Exam skills

Business Studies (BTEC)

Unit 1: Exploring Business

Learning aim D: Examine business markets, their structure, relationship between demand, supply and price, impact on pricing and output decisions

Unit 1: Exploring Business

Learning aim E: Investigate the role and contributions of innovation and enterprise to business success, benefits and risks associated with innovation

Chemistry

Module 4
Basic concepts of organic chemistry
Nomenclature
Carbon skeletons
Isomers
Properties of Alkanes and alkenes
Addition and substitution reactions of electrophiles and neutrophiles
Properties of alcohols and haloalkenes

Module 4
Analysis
Mass Spectrometry
Infrared spectrometry
Synthetic routes of preparing organic compounds

Computer Science

Unit 7: Data structures
Arrays, Stacks, Hash tables and graphs

Unit 8: Boolean Algebra
Logic Gates and Boolean expressions

Unit 9: Legal, moral, ethical and cultural isssues
Computing related issues

Criminology

Unit 2
Policy development and campaigns affecting criminal policy making

Revision of Unit 1 and Unit 2

Introduction to Unit 3 and 4- Prisons project

Dance (BTEC Performing Arts)

Unit 2 – Developing Skills for Live Performance

Unit 2: Exam

Unit 3 – Group Performance Workshop

Unit 3 – Group Performance Workshop

Drama and Theatre Studies

Component 1

Devising: Frantic Assembly/Script Extract
Creating original performance, using the methodology of a named practitioner (Frantic Assembly) in response to an extract from a play text.

Performance assessment and completion of accompanying written portfolio.

Component 3:

Section B – That Face

Section C – Woyzeck & Brecht

Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how drama and theatre is developed and performed.

English Literature

Unseen Modern and Poetry Texts/ Knowledge about Poetry: meaningful analysis of form/structure/language; typical features of love poetry

Comparative Coursework: Frankenstein: Shelley’s authorial craft; historical and political contexts; research and independent study of companion texts

Film Studies

Continuation of Paper 2 Section C: Silent Film Buster Keaton shorts - One Week (1920), The Scarecrow (1920), The 'High Sign' (1921) and Cops (1922)

Paper 1 Section C: British Film Since 1995 – Film 1: Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)

Research and planning for major coursework project.

Continuation of Paper 1 Section C: British Film Since 1995 – Film 1: Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)

Paper 1 Section C: British Film Since 1995 – Film 1: We need to Talk about Kevin (Ramsay, 2011)

Continuation of research and planning for major coursework project.

Government and Politics

Government and politics of the UK
The European Union

Politics ideologies
Liberalism
Conservatism

Government and politics of the USA

The US Constitution

Politics ideologies
Socialism
Feminism

Health and Social Care

Unit 5: Meeting Individual Care & Support Needs

Unit 8: Promoting Public Health

Unit 5: Meeting Individual Care & Support Needs

Unit 8: Promoting Public Health

History

Early Tudors
Henry VIII: The break with Rome

Russia 1894-1941
The Bolshevik takeover, October 1917

Civil Rights in USA
Women’s civil rights, 1865-1940.

Early Tudors
Henry VIII: Government in the 1530s

Russia 1894-1941
The Bolshevik consolidation of power

Civil Rights in USA
Women’s civil rights, 1942-1992.

Law

Tort Law
Liability in negligence for economic loss and psychiatric injury

Occupier’s liability 1957 and 1984

Remedies and compensation for damages

Criminal Law
Fatal offences against the person - Murder, Manslaughter

Defences to murder

Maths

Differentiation 1
Integration 1
Measures of Average & Spread

Exponentials & Logarithms
Vectors 1
Outliers
Probability

Music

Musical Theatre
Critical listening skills
Set composers revised
Exam technique – the musical theatre essay

Development of the Symphony
Haydn Symphony No.104 1^st and 3^rd movement consolidated
Score reading, error identification and dictation
The development of the symphony Berlioz
Introduction to Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Italian set work

Into the 20^th century
Impressionism, Expressionism and NeoClassicism introduced
Wider listening Stravinsky, Debussy and Schoenberg
Debussy Set Work Nuages

Performance
Ongoing practice mock recital in June

Composition
Continuing ALevel Free Compositions

Philosophy

The limits of knowledge
To what extent is it possible to ‘know’?

Meta-Ethics
Moral realism and an exploration of the meaning of ethical language. A consideration of the extent to which ethical language is able to/is intending to make factual claims about the world.

The limits of knowledge
Exploring the boundaries of knowledge claims

Meta-Ethics
Anti-realism, emotivism and prescriptivism. Understanding philosophical theory about the purpose of ethical language.

Photography

The Personal Investigation
Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

The Personal Investigation
Students reflect on their interests, practice and begin a project that will form their Personal Investigations. In addition, teachers may wish to prompt and provoke reflection in the students.

Physics

Module 3.5: Newton’s laws of motion and Momentum
Understanding of Newton’s laws – fundamental laws that can be used to predict the motion of all colliding or interacting objects in applications such as sport.

Module 4.4: Waves
This section provides knowledge and understanding of wave properties, electromagnetic waves, superposition and stationary waves.

Psychology

Component 2: Research methods continued

Brain scans, Inferential statistics

Component 2: Coursework

Two Investigations. Plan, run, write up

Sociology

Sociological research methods

Demographic trends

Research methods in the context of education

Families and social policies

Sport (BTEC)

Exam revision and prep

Unit 1: Exam

Coursework Deadline

Unit 2: Fitness Training and Programming for

Health, Sport and Well-being

Optional Unit (TBC)