Year 9 Curriculum Guide

Students compare tactics/ weapons/ achievements of armies of the past – Romans, medieval soldiers, civil war and First World War

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  Twentieth Century Conflict? War & Peace
  
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  The Tommie’s experience of WWI & WWII Propaganda & Recruitment, Life in the Trenches, The Somme, Dunkirk and D-Day – the WWII Tommy Stalingrad, Band of Brothers – the GI’s war
  
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  How GREAT was the Great War? Why not a war to end all wars? Peace?
  
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  How did WW2 affect lives?
  

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  Was the dropping of the Atomic bomb justified?
  

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  United Nations?
  
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  Why have there been so many wars since 1945?
  
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  What is terrorism? War on Terror
  

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  What happened and why?
  
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  Why is it important we remember the Holocaust?
  
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  How should we remember the Holocaust?
  

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.

http://www.schoolshistory.com

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  Algebra – Sequences and functions 9A
  
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  Number - Number skills 9B
  
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  Algebra – Solving equations 9C
  

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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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  Geometry – Angles and constructions 9D
  
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  Statistics – Hypothesis testing and data analysis 9E
  
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  Geometry – Perimeter, area and volume 9F
  

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  Number – number skills 9G
  
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  Tests
  

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  KS3 tests
  
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  Investigation – Painted Cube
  

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  Number – Fractions, decimals percentages
  

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  Algebra – line graphs
  
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  Statistics – collecting, representing and analysing data
  
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  Geometry – angles
  
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  Test