English Year 7 curriculum aims

Head of English

Miss N Fellows: nfellows@heyshamhigh.co.uk

Acting Head of KS3

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Enrichment: The reading skills that students develop through their Accelerated Reader lessons will support the units of work.

Gifted and Talented: Parents/carers can help their child by encouraging students to read regularly and to identify any key spelling strategies. Ensuring that home learning is completed on time and encourage students to proof read.

Term 1 - September to December
Topic	Content	Assessment/HEAT task
Literary Timeline Beowulf: Dragonslayer by Rosemary Sutcliffe	Study of a range of texts from the literary timeline booklet beginning with an excerpt from Beowulf and working through the centuries up to the present day. Students will develop their analytical skills and appreciation of how language has developed through history. Students will study a whole text as a class reader.	One reading, writing and speaking and listening assessment. Mini mocks every six weeks.
Term 2 - January to March
Topic	Content	Assessment/HEAT task
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Boy by Roald Dahl	Students will study a whole text with a focus on Dickens’ style and development of character. They will also study other techniques such as creating tension and atmosphere in the Novel. Reading of a whole non-fiction text with study of style and presentation of character. A variety of activities is provided to cover a range of writing styles.	Reading assessment showing awareness of author’s craft and literary context. Mini mocks every six weeks. Reading assessment testing analytical skills of how a character is conveyed. Writing assessment showing autobiographical style.
Term 3 - April to July
Topic	Content	Assessment/HEAT task
Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson	Students will study a whole text from the canon of literary heritage. In addition to this, there is a choice of units to be covered which enhance the learning of the whole text and which develop their analytical skills further.	Speaking and listening task Writing assessment Mini mocks every six weeks.

Mathematics

Year 7 curriculum aims: to build on the topics the students studied in primary school. Students will be working with familiar subjects but the work will be more advanced. They will be working in classrooms and the aim of this year is to deepen students’ understanding of number work and ensure that a firm foundation is built. Communication skills and functional mathematics will form an important part of this year’s learning.

Term 1 - September to December
Topic	Content	Assessment/HEAT task
Whole Numbers Angles Multiples Substitution	Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing Types of angles, measuring and drawing, basic angle relationships Definition of a multiple. inding the lowest common multiple. Replacing letters with numbers, BIDMAS	Baseline tests and HEAT tasks Completemaths mini assessments End of term exam Mini mocks every six weeks
Term 2 - January to March
Topic	Content	Assessment/HEAT task
FDP Expressions Mean Sequences Symmetry	Working with fractions, decimals and percentages Collecting like terms. Expanding single brackets. Forming algebraic expressions. Defining the mean. Calculating the mean. Interpreting the mean in context. Finding the Nth term. Generate sequences from a practical context. Understand lines of symmetry, rotational symmetry.	HEAT tasks – mathematical puzzles to encourage thinking skills Completemaths mini assessments End of term exam Mini mocks every six weeks
Term 3 - April to July
Topic	Content	Assessment/HEAT task
Reflection and translation Solving equations Probability Area Negative numbers	Reflect shapes horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Translate shapes using vectors. Solve linear equations with variables on one side. Understand the probability scale. Create sample space diagrams. Calculate probabilities. Calculate the area of 2D shapes. Ordering. Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with negative numbers.	HEAT tasks – mathematical puzzles to encourage thinking skills Completemaths mini assessments End of year exam Mini mocks every six weeks

Resources/equipment: Pen, Pencil, Ruler, Calculator Showmyhomework. Help resources library	Enrichment: Attend catchup sessions on Thursday after school to sort out any issues arising in lessons. Enter the puzzle of the week competition.
Gifted and Talented Extension activities offer depth of learning. These encourage the student to work with either more complex tasks (i.e. which combine or apply learning objectives in less familiar contexts) or provide them with a greater degree of complexity or abstraction.	Parents/carers can help their child by encouraging students to learn the meanings of keywords for each topic and ensuring that home learning is completed on time.

Science

Year 7 curriculum aims: To build on the topics the students studied in primary school and encourage the students to work safely and develop inquisitive minds. They will be working in laboratories, carrying out experiments and recording and analysing their results. This will help them develop the critical skills needed to be an effective learner in the field of science.

Enrichment: attend Science Club Tuesday lunchtime to carry out exciting experiments and investigations. Join the Science Scholars programme on Tuesday mornings at 8.00am.

Staff: Mrs S.McFall, Head of Science

smcfall@heyshamhigh.co.uk