Year 7 Curriculum Guide

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  What is India like? 
  
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  How to locate India - using compass directions and latitude and longitude
  
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  Using grid references and distance to explore the landscape of India
  
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  Analysing the physical and human geography of India
  
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  How has life been impacted by globalisation in the cities of India?
  

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  Encourage students to use OS maps by planning a journey using grid references, map symbols etc.
  
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  Check their class work and homework and ensure they are making improvements by responding to targets set by the teacher
  
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  Test your son/daughter on where different continents and countries are in the world
  
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  Watch documentaries and news programmes about issues around the world e.g. Newsround
  
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  Discuss issues which occur at a local, national and global scale
  
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  Encourage students to use a dictionary and practise spellings of geographical terms
  
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  Encourage students to collect news clippings on flood events, including local ones.
  
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  Reinforcing understanding of key words and terms such as physical and human geography, development, landscape, sustainability etc.
  

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  Which countries are found in Africa?
  
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  How diverse is the continent?
  
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  How and why does the population density vary between countries?
  
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  What are the main physical and human features of Kenya?
  
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  What is a savanna grassland like?
  
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  Is Kenya a developing country?
  
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  What is it like for people living in shanty towns?
  
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  What is aid?
  

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  Where is China?
  
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  What are the main physical and human features?
  
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  How and why does the population density vary across the country?
  
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  What are the benefits and problems of the One Child Policy?
  
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  Why do people migrate from rural to urban areas?
  
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  What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Three Gorges Dam?
  
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  What is ‘Wild China’ like?
  
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  Is China sustainable?
  

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  What is a river?
  
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  How does the water cycle work?
  
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  What are the main landforms found along a river?
  
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  How and why do the characteristics of a river vary from source to mouth?
  
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  How are people affected by rivers?
  
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  How can rivers be managed?
  

This topic will include a fieldwork enquiry (and trip) investigating the River Pang on the Berkshire Downs.

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  Atlas
  
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  Dictionary
  
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  Wild China DVD
  

Newsround http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/

iPad apps suggestions http://seanhamptoncole.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/48-ipad-apps-for-teaching-and-learning-geography-earth-science/

National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/

Wide World Magazine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/geography/

• Chronology, BC AD, Anachronism, Why is history a load of old rubbish? Evidence, Historical Enquiry, Bias.

• Roman Invasion

• How far did the Romans change Britain?

• What did the Romans do for us?

Students will be required to take part in a marking dialogue where appropriate, with verbal feedback taking place regularly within lessons.

(Eg-chronology, anachronisms, evidence)

Encourage your child to keep improving.

When your child gets stuck, don’t give him/ her the answer; instead, encourage them to try different ways to become ‘unstuck’.

Encourage your child to ask questions.

Rule Makers & Breakers I

• Norman Conquest

• How was Medieval Britain ruled? How powerful was the King?

• How did Medieval Monarchs keep control? Castles

Muck and Misery in the Middle Ages?

• Was life really that hard?

• Why did church matter so much in medieval times? Role of Church, pilgrimage, monks & nuns.

• Was the Black Death really:

like that

Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?

Proposed Assessment

Why did some people go on the Crusades?

· What was England like in 1500?

· Life in Tudor times: Rich & poor

· Who was the most significant of the Tudor monarchs? Overview of Tudors, Henry VIII, Bloody Mary? Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Spanish Armada

Crisis in Christendom

· The Reformation, Why did Richard Whiting die a terrible death in 1539? Henry VIII,

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  Number - Number skills 7A
  
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  Geometry - Area and perimeter 7B
  
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  Algebra – Sequences and functions 7C
  
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  Investigation – Dominoes 7D
  

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  Encourage your child to ask for help with any topics that they don’t fully understand.
  
  
  
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  Check that your child has the equipment needed for maths lessons (pen, pencil, ruler, calculator, protractor and compasses).
  
  
  
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  Encourage your child to try their MyMaths homework more than once and / or do the linked lessons if they didn’t understand their homework. With other types of homework get them to ask for help and then try again.
  
  
  
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  Regularly ask your child what they have done in lessons and whether they understand it or not. Get them to explain the basic rules to you.
  
  
  
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  Involve your child in everyday uses of maths – from working out change to planning holidays etc.
  
  
  
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  Practise basic skills such as times tables, adding single and double digit numbers if you know that they are weak in these areas. (Note: when practising tables it is important to link the question with the answer i.e. 1x6=6, 2x6=12 and not just count in sixes)
  

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  Number – Fractions and converting between fractions, decimals and percentages 7E
  
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  Statistics –Probability 7F
  
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  Geometry – Angle facts 7G
  

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  Number – Negative numbers 7H
  
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  Algebra – Using letters and substitution 7I
  
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  Statistics – Collecting, representing and analysing data 7J
  

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  Geometry – Transformations and coordinates 7K
  
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  Algebra – Coordinates & graphs 7L
  
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  Number – Percentages 7M
  

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  Algebra – Solving equations 7N
  
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  Geometry – Construction and properties of shape 7O
  
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  Statistics – Constructing and interpreting statistical diagrams 7P
  

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  Investigation – Frogs 7Q
  
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  Progress tests
  
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  Number – Ratio and proportion 7R
  

MyMaths www.mymaths.co.uk School: gillotts Password: isosceles

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  Rhythm
  
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  Singing
  

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  Encourage your child to attend the choir / orchestra at lunchtime – information in the extra-curricular clubs booklet or on the tutor group notice board
  

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  Encourage the development of keyboard skills at home if you have access to a keyboard or piano
  

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  Use the virtual keyboard online (type “virtual keyboard” into Google) to become familiar with position of notes in the keyboard
  

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  Listen to a wide range of related music (You Tube is a great source)
  

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  Encourage an awareness of the use of music in media
  

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  Keyboard technique
  
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  Music Notation of the treble Clef
  

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  Tonality ( major and minor)
  
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  Ensemble skills
  

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  Music for special events
  
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  Composing a fanfare
  

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  World Music
  

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  Music in the media
  

www.youtube.co.uk