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. Foundation Tier: Real Life / Linear Graphs, Probability and Perimeter and Area. Higher Tier: Probability, Real Life Graphs and Pythagoras and Trigonometry. Students will be using visual representations and physical resources to gain a deeper understanding of the topics.
English Literature Mathematics
Biology Chemistry
Physics
Physical Education Geography
History Religious Studies Spanish
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. 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. Netball/Handball OAA/Yoga Changing Economic World: Students will start their GCSE journey with a focus on Nigeria and the UK and how each country and continent has developed over time.
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. Foundation Tier: Transformations, Sequences, Averages 2 and Inequalities. Higher Tier: Fractions and Percentages, Volume and Surface Area, Transformations, Loci and Constructions, Pythagoras and Trigonometry 2 and Proportion 2. Students will be using visual representations and physical resources to gain a deeper understanding of the topics. Homeostasis and Response (continued): Students will study the endocrine system and learn how hormones control our reproductive systems, fertility and our blood glucose levels. 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. Boxercise/Football Netball/Fitness The Changing Economic world/Weather Hazards: Students will look at the economic make-up of the UK with a focus on the North South divide and Sheffield's movement from a manufacturing town before moving on to explore weather hazards.
Medicine Through Time: Students will be introduced to the first topic of their GCSE course. They will look at how medicine developed through the Medieval, Renaissance, Industrial and Modern periods. Component 2: Christianity: Students will begin by exploring the Christian Component 2: Christianity: Students will continue to explore how Christians beliefs - the nature of God, the incarnation, the atonement, and the end practice their beliefs looking at “The Lord’s supper, baptism, and religious times. services” Desconéctate (theme - local area, holiday and travel): Students will begin Mi vida en el insti (School): Students will talk about school in detail, talking about talking about holidays and how they like to spend their holidays. Students subjects and teachers using a range of opinions, as well as school uniform, school will be able to use the imperfect tense to describe what there was at the rules and extracurricular activities.