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AEM Year 7 

Units: Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’, Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Poetry.

Key vocabulary

• Metaphor
• Complete sentences
• Speech punctuation
• Demarcating clauses with commas
• What, how, why? paragraphs

Knowledge organisers, booklets, and exercise books

AEM Year 8 

Units: Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Tempest, Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’.

Key vocabulary

• Metaphor
• Complete sentences
• Speech punctuation
• Demarcating clauses with commas
• What, how, why? Paragraphs
• Linking paragraphs
• Developing ideas

Knowledge organisers, booklets, and exercise books

AEM Year 9

Units: Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’, Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘The Tempest’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and Y9 Poetry.

Key vocabulary

• Metaphor
• Complete sentences
• Speech punctuation
• Demarcating clauses with commas
• What, how, why? Paragraphs
• Linking paragraphs
• Developing ideas
• Liking to context
• Thesis statements

Knowledge organisers, booklets, and exercise books

TWC Year 7 

Units 1-3: Shakespeare (AMND) Chaucer (A Knight’s Tale) Homer (Odyssey)

• Conventions of comedy
• Metaphor
• Narrative Structure
• Literary timeline
• What, How, Why? Paragraphs

Knowledge organisers

A Midsummer Night's Dream - KS3 English - BBC Bitesize

TWC Year 8

 Tragedy:

• Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
• The gothic: Frankenstein (Shelley)  
• Oliver Twist (Dickens)
• Conventions of tragedy
• Metaphor
• Narrative structure
• Literary timeline
• Linking What, How, Why? paragraphs

Knowledge organisers

Romeo and Juliet - KS3 English - BBC Bitesize

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Year 7 

• Numerical reasoning 1
• Numerical reasoning 2
• Angles
• Parts of a whole
• Algebraic reasoning

Sparx Maths – independent learning

Oak National Academy

Corbett Maths – worksheets & videos

Dr Austin Maths

Maths 4 Everyone – review sheets

Year 8 

• Properties of number
• Describing with algebra
• Shape & construction
• Ratio & proportion 1
• Ratio & proportion2

Sparx Maths – independent learning

Oak National Academy

Corbett Maths – worksheets & videos

Dr Austin Maths

Maths 4 Everyone – review sheets

Year 9

• Factors, primes & indices
• Formulae & manipulation
• Proportional relationships
• Construction & transformations
• Equations, inequalities & graphs

Sparx Maths – independent learning

Oak National Academy

Corbett Maths – worksheets & videos

Dr Austin Maths

Maths 4 Everyone – review sheets

Year 10

AQA 8300 Maths Specification

(Year 10 – first four units)

Sparx Maths – independent learning

Oak National Academy

Corbett Maths – worksheets & videos

Dr Austin Maths

Maths 4 Everyone – GCSE questions by topic

Maths Genie

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Year 7 

• Energy
• Forces
• Discovering the atom
• Fields and Electricity
• Materials
• Physical interactions
• Reactions and bonding
• Organisation of living things
• Waves

 Knowledge organisers

Year 8 

• Chemical reactions
• Energy
• Energy in chemical reactions
• Life Processes
• Forces
• Biological molecules
• Electricity
• Ecology
• The Earth

 Knowledge organisers

Year 9 

• P1 Energy
• C1 Atomic Structure
• B1 Cell Biology
• P3 Particle Model of Matter
• C2 Bonding and Properties

 Knowledge organisers

Year 10

• AQA Paper 1 – Biology
• AQA Paper 1 - Physics

Knowledge organisers

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French

TWC Year 7  

• Unit 2.7 - Describing self and others (I have, I am, I like, name of family members)
• Unit 3.7 – Talking about school subjects and justifying likes/ dislikes with adjectives (because it is…)
• Unit 4.7 – Talking about hobbies (I do, I play, I listen, I watch, I take)

Knowledge organiser (Core structures) for units 2.7, 3.7 and 4.7.  Guide to using Core Structures for study.

Link Quizlet sets for end of unit revision:

    Unit 2.7, Unit 3.7, Unit 4.7. 

French

TWC Year 8  

• Unit 7.8 – Talking about TV and free-time interests (I/ we go, do, take, watch), saying when and giving opinions.
•  Unit 9.8 – Describing self and others, explaining relationships (we get on because s/he is), using frequency.
• Unit 9.8 – Describing clothes and preferred fashion styles (I wear/ like wearing/ I’m going to wear…), using adjectives.
• Unit 10.8 – Describing your home (I live in…)

Knowledge organiser (Core structures) for units 7.8, 9.8 and 10.8. Guide to using Core Structures for study

 Link Quizlet sets for end of unit revision:   Unit 7.8, Unit 9.8, Unit 10.8. 

French

TWC Year 9 

• Unit 12.9 –Talking about free-time with others (common verbs in 3 tenses), adjectives with opinion about others (I think that, I find him/her)
• Unit 14.9 – Naming and describing jobs, justifying opinions with adjectives.
• Unit 15.9 – Describing usual and past holiday activities (common core verbs), saying where, when, who with and justifying preferences.

Knowledge organiser (Core structures) for units 12.9, 14.9 and 15.9. Guide to using Core Structures for study.

 Link Quizlet sets for end of unit revision:

Unit 12.9, Unit 14.9, and Unit 15.9. 

French

Year 10 

• Module 1 – Personal interests
• Module 2 – Media
• Module 3 – Special occasions & Shopping
• Module 4 – Home & local area
• Module 5 - Holidays

Knowledge organisers for productive skills (photocard, general)

Seneca AQA link to Theme 1, Theme 2.1,  and Theme 2.4

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Year 7 

Section A – Keywords and definition multiple choice: from knowledge organisers in Y7

Section B – Skills and Section C – Extended Answers: Weather and Climate and The Geographies of Economic Activity including case study/examples of two contrasting locations in the UK and their climates (Keswick, Lake District and your own local example).

Year 7 Knowledge Organisers (all topics – keywords and definitions)

Weather and Climate and the Geographies of Economic Activity

BBC bitesize:

Types of industry guide for KS3 geography students - BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwtsbk/articles/zx6mxbk

Year 8 

Section A - Keywords and definition multiple choice: from knowledge organisers in Y8

Section B - Skills and Section C - Extended Answers: Tectonics and Migration, including case study/examples of 'The Big One’ (San Francisco Earthquake)

Year 8 Knowledge Organisers (all topics – keywords and definitions)

Tectonics and Migration

BBC bitesize:

Tectonic hazards - earthquakes and tsunamis guide for KS3 geography students - BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn476sg/articles/zc4rcmn?course=zgrmtrd

Tectonic hazards and volcanoes guide for KS3 geography students - BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn476sg/articles/z9k496f?course=zgrmtrd

Year 9

Section A - Keywords and definitions multiple choice: from knowledge organisers in Y9

Section B – Skills and Section C – Extended Answers: Frozen World and Asia, including case study/examples of The Himalayas and Either the Arctic or Antarctic and what life is like for specific groups of people living in these areas.

Year 9 Knowledge Organisers (all topics – keywords and definitions)

Frozen World and Asia

BBC bitesize:

An introductory guide to Antarctica for for KS3 geography students - BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsk4r2p/articles/zp4jdp3

Cold environments guide for KS3 geography students - BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztgw2hv/articles/zbg3bqt?course=zj9tn9q

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Year 7 

• Roman Empire
• Faith
• Trade
• Migration
• Anglo-Saxon England
• Norman Conquest
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Black Death
• Renaissance

 Knowledge organisers

Year 8 

Y7 as above plus:

• European exploration and expansion
• Britain c1500 to c1800 – Power, Society, Belief, Climate and Conflict, Society, Empire and Race

 Knowledge organisers

Year 9

• Age of Revolutions
• Britain c1850 to c1950 including World Wars

 Knowledge organisers

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Year 7 

•  Christianity and Greek philosophy

 Knowledge organisers

Year 8 

•  Judaism and Islam

 Knowledge organisers

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Year 7 

• Important musical words and terms
• Rhythm and pitch (treble clef) notation
• Chords
• Labelling notes on a keyboard

 Knowledge organisers

Year 8 

• Important musical words and terms relating to the musical elements (dynamics, rhythm, sonority, melody, instrumentation, timbre/texture, harmony)
• Time signatures, including 6/8
• Rhythm and pitch notation, including dotted notes
• Responding to a piece of music using musical vocabulary

Knowledge organisers

Year 9

• Important musical words and terms (including vocabulary relevant to minimalism and electronic dance music)
• Musical notation: pitch (treble and bass clefs), rhythm, time signatures, dynamics
• Responding to pieces of music (ground bass, minimalism, electronic dance music) using musical vocabulary and extended writing

Knowledge organisers