Year 8

• Cubism
• Still life

In Year 8, the topics range from ICT such as “Quiz Game Spreadsheets”, “Creating a multipage website” moving onto Computer Science such as “Cracking the code”, “Programming”, “Foundations of Computing” and “Sorting and Searching”. Year 8 covers some history when the students investigate Bletchley Park and the part it played during World War 2.

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Autumn term

• History of dance
• Bollywood
• Fusion performance

Spring term

• Chaos and order
• Chair movement and choreography

Summer term

• Dance through social media
• Youtube tutorial dance
• Dance assessment and evaluation

Food

• Further development of core skills
• Planning and cooking dishes for a child

DT

• Woodwork – Pencil case with pyrography
• Metals practical – Coat hook

Textiles/Graphics

• Fabric plant
• Sketch up plant design

Autumn term

• History of theatre
• Jonah and the whale performance assessment
• Pantomime

Spring term

• Chaos and order
• Damilola Taylor performance piece
• London riots performance assessment

Summer term

• Devising social media
• Girls Like That performance assessment

Autumn term

The Bone Sparrow (novel)

• Explore the function and distinct voices of characters in a dual narrative.
• Explore the structure of different narratives.
• Differentiate between inference and deduction.
• Extend knowledge of writers’ craft: plot, characterisation, descriptive detail, how to create suspense and the impact on the reader.

Spring term

Much Ado About Nothing (full Shakespeare play)

• Revise Shakespearian drama conventions secured in Y7.
• Explore the function of different characters
• Explore the barriers between characters
• Explore the relationships between characters
• Extend knowledge and interpretations of form, language, structure and staging.

Summer term

Noughts and Crosses (modern play)

• Develop understanding of genre-dystopian fiction.
• Revisit and extend knowledge of modern drama conventions: stage directions, characterisation, different narrative voices, form, structure, language, tension.
• Explore the function of different characters
• Explore the relationships between characters
• Explore the barriers between characters
• Explore the barriers within society

Autumn term

• Weather
• Climate change factors
• Hurricane Katrina – case study
• Japan
• Tsunami 2011 – case study

Spring term

• Rainforests
• Living in the rainforest – indigenous tribes
• Deforestation – causes
• Sustainability – methods
• Coastlines
• Tsunami formation

Summer term

• Sustainability
• Renewable energy
• Settlements
• Urban models
• Hierarchy of settlements

Autumn term

• The English Reformation
• Catholicism v Protestantism
• Dissolution of the Monasteries
• Elizabethan England, 1558 – 1603
• The Spanish Armada
• Mary, Queen of Scots

Spring term

• Early Stuart Dynasty – James I
• Hampton Court Palace conference
• The Pilgrim Fathers
• The Gunpowder Plot
• The English Civil War – causes, course and consequences
• 11 Year Tyranny
• 1640 Parliament and compromise
• Build up to war

Summer term

• The Interregnum and Commonwealth under Cromwell
• World Turned Upside Down – England post 1649
• Oliver Cromwell
• The Industrial Revolution, 1750 to 1900 – The Modern Age
• Pauper Apprentices and factory life
• Growth of urbanisation
• Growth and development in infrastructure – roads, cannel system and railways
• Coal mining and steam power

Autumn term

• Directed number & decimals
• Factors, multiples, powers and roots
• Manipulating expressions
• Rounding and estimation
• Area & perimeter
• Solving equations
• Fractions

Spring term

• Polygons
• Metric units & conversions
• Ratio and proportion
• Presenting Data
• Percentages

Summer term

• Substitution
• Sequences
• Transformations
• 3D shapes
• Angles
• Constructions
• Coordinates & linear graphs
• Real life graphs

French

• Lifestyle
• Sport and leisure
• Daily routine
• Entertainment and advertising

Spanish

• My city and where I live
• School
• Diet and healthy living
• Holidays

Autumn term

• History of music
• Blues
• Keyboard
• Jingle Bells

Spring term

• Chaos and order
• Pachabels Canon
• Find your voice
• Singing assessment

Summer term

• Media
• Harry Potter assessment
• Composition character assessment

• Developing and embedding skills
• Tactics
• Habits, routine and best practice
• Outdoor education residential
• Strategic thinking
• Decision making
• Competition
• Opportunity to support primary school sports events

Autumn term

• Good and Evil
• Theodicy
• The Devil and evil
• Nazi persecution of the Jews
• Religion and Science
• Ethical Issues surrounding Religion and Science
• Accident vs Design
• Is Humanity unique?

Spring term

• Animal Rights
• Ethics of  meat consumption
• Animal testing in labs and its morality
• Aspects of Islam
• The Hajj Pilgrimage
• Food and Fasting
• Life of Muhammad

Summer term

• Aspects of Sikhism
• Guru Nanak
• Sikh Gurus
• The Formation of the Khalsa /5 Ks
• The Guru Granth Sahib
• The Golden Temple
• British Sikhs
• Aspects of Judaism
• Abraham
• Moses and the burning bush
• Shabbat
• Jewish Wedding
• Passover Seder Meal

Autumn term

• Health and Lifestyle
• Ecosystem Processes
• The Periodic Table
• Separation Techniques
• Electricity and Magnetism

Spring term

• The Earth
• Metals and Acids
• Adaptations

Summer term

• Energy
• Motion and Pressure
• Ecology
• Enrichment tbc