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  • Year 12 Curriculum Map

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    Autumn term

     

    Autumn 1

    Autumn 2

    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 20th 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 3rd 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

         

    Spring term

     

    Spring 1

    Spring 2

    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
    S
    tructure 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

    Summer term

     

    Summer 1

    Summer 2

    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 1st and 3rd 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 20th 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)