Year 10 Curriculum Plan Subject
Autumn Term
English Language
AQA Paper 1 reading: Students will read and practice their analytical and evaluative responses to a range of literature extracts in preparation for the exam. The Romantics: This unit focuses on the study of knowledge, understanding, analysis and the context of three poems from the GCSE anthology from the Romantic movement. Unit 1 Transformations: Students will learn to construct, recognise and describe translations, rotations, reflections and enlargements (positive and fractional scale factors only) on a coordinate grid. Unit 2 Sequences: Students will be able to work fluently with sequences including finding a generalised rule for the nth term and continuing sequences represented as diagrams or integers. Unit 1 Accuracy and Bounds: Students will learn to calculate upper and lower bounds of any number and work fluently with these using the four operations. Students will be able to write the error interval of any number. Unit 2 Perimeter, area and circles: Students will learn to work with the area and circumference of sectors and arcs leaving answers in terms of π. Unit 3 Fractions and Percentages 2: Students will learn how to convert between recurring decimals and fractions. Students will learn to calculate a reverse percentage.
English Literature Mathematics Foundation
Mathematics Higher
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Physical Education
Plant Organisation: Students will study plant structure, transport in plants and photosynthesis. They will consider the factors which affect photosynthesis and their commercial application. Students will learn how the glucose is converted and stored. Organic Chemistry: Students will learn what crude oil is made up of and know how to separate by fractional distillation. Students will know what products are formed when you burn hydrocarbons and how to test for them. Chemical Change: Students will study how to deduce an order of reactivity in metals when reacting with water and acid. Further prediction can be made when metals are” in competition” with themselves. Forces: Students will study what different types of forces there are and their interactions with each other and their surroundings. They will look at Newtons Laws of motion and inertia and the complex calculations involved in these Laws and their application. Students will then study work done, energy transfers (Power) and gravity. Pathway 1 Football/Handball Pathway 2 Table Tennis/Netball
Creative writing: Students will develop their descriptive writing in preparation for the English Language exam by experimenting with a variety of structures and devices. A Christmas Carol: Students will look at analysing key themes and characters in preparation for the exam. Unit 3 Averages 2: Students will learn to find the mean, median, mode and range from grouped frequency tables. Student will learn to solve reverse mean questions. Unit 4 Inequalities: Students will learn to solve linear inequalities in one variable and represent the solution on a number line.
Unit 4 Volume and Surface Area: Students will learn to find the surface area of prisms and other 3D shapes using a sketch of its net to visualise its faces. Students will learn to convert between metric units of capacity. Unit 5 Transformations, Loci and Constructions: Students will learn to construct, recognise and describe translations, rotations, reflections and enlargements (positive and fractional scale factors only) on a coordinate grid. Students will learn the standard ruler and compass constructions. Unit 6 Surds: Students will learn to work fluently with numbers written in a surd format including; calculating with the four operations and rationalising a denominator. Homeostasis and Response: Students will look at how the body maintains a balance through different homeostatic mechanisms. They will look in detail at the nervous system and how we respond to stimuli. Chemical Change (continued): Students will look at where the metals originated from and how they can be extracted from their ore by methods such as reduction by carbon and hydrogen and electrolysis. Students will also study reactions between an acid and a base, an acid and an alkali and the method used to produce the metal salts. Pupils will look at the pH scale and neutralisation. Forces (continued): Students will study forces and elasticity including use of Hooke’s Law and the use of springs they will they look at the various aspects of forces and motion including scalar and vector quantities, distance and velocity time graphs. Acceleration and the practical application of stopping distances of cars. Pathway 1 Netball/Basketball Pathway 2 Exercise to Music/Yoga