Furze Down School

Furze Down School

A Specialist School for Communication and Interaction

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Year 8/9

Year 8/9

 

Year 8/9 Overarching Themes and Topics

 

Term 1:

Term 2:

Term 3:

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

 

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Communication and languages (reading, writing, communication)

 

 

 

Novel Unit: Fiction Linked to World War 1

Letter Writing

Description

War Horse

Where the Poppies Grow

 

 

 

WW1 - Diaries and Recounts

Information Leaflets Posters

 

Adverts and Media

 

 

Journeys & Travel writing

 

Non-chronological reports and factual, informative writing

 

Poetry Unit

 

Narrative Poetry:

The Highwayman

 

 

Dramatic Conventions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opportunities

 

Experience a play in performance which may be live or recorded and read material from/about the play. Participate in discussions

Whole books

 

Maths

Mastery

 

 

Number and Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Measurement: including Time and Money

Geometry

Statistics

Understanding the World: History /Geography

 

 

The UK:

Changing Population of the UK

 

The First World War:

Challenges in Britain, Europe and the wider World

The First World War

Fragile Environments

Understand how climate and vegetation are connected in a range of biomes, e.g. the tropical rainforest

Amazon/ Rainforest

The Second World War:

Challenges in Britain, Europe and the wider World

The rise of Hitler and the Holocaust

Investigating rivers

A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Crime and Punishment through history

Technologies: Science

 

Solids, Liquids and Gases

 

Cells and Respiration

Inheritance, Variation and Survival

Energy and Matter

Chemical Changes

Electricity and Magnetism

Computing

Online safety

Algorithms

3D modelling and Advanced word processing

Designing, Making and programming robots

Making Movies   Creating, editing and evaluating digital video

Digital artwork.  Using IT tools to add to a digital art portfolio

Design Technology

Getting in Gears

Computer Aided Design

Electronics 2

Pneumatics and Hydraulics

PfA: Independent Living Skills

 

Domestic Tasks including household tasks and food preparation

Domestic Tasks including household tasks and food preparation

Domestic Tasks including household tasks and food preparation

Creative Art

 

 

 

Surrealism 

Use observation skills to replicate images by well-known artists and explain how their work is similar/different

Understands some history of art, styles and major movements 

can create images in the style of an artist from history 

Focus artists – Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Grete Stern 

Medium – mixed media, paint, collage, sketching pencils 

Rainforest Theme  

Digital Art 

Mixed media 

Water-colour 

Drawing; sketching and ink 

Medium – mixed media, paint, collage, sketching pencils 

 

Art: Change your style  

Picasso / Braque / Leger /Renoir  

 To be informed by the work of an artist and produce work in a similar style.  

 

Music

 

 

Main Focus: Music Composition

Pupils experience elements of composition, performance, listening and appraisal.

Perform

To work towards singing performance

To Use music for wellbeing and low arousal interaction.

Main Focus: Music Listening Appraisal

Pupils experience elements of composition, performance, listening and appraisal.

Perform

To work towards singing performance

To Use music for wellbeing and low arousal interactions

 Main Focus Music Performance and singing

Pupils experience elements of composition, performance, listening and appraisal.

Perform

To work towards singing performance

To Use music for wellbeing and low arousal interactions

RE & MFL

 

 

What is Creation?

Who created the world?

 

French – Rigolo 1

Unit 1: Greetings

 

What is it like to be a Muslim?

What do I believe in?

 

 

French – Rigolo 1

Unit 2  - Numbers and classroom objects

Ethics and Moral Issues

Right and Wrong

Good and Evil

 

French – Rigolo 1

Unit 3: Parts of the Body

PfA: Health

 

Diet, exercise, lifestyle balance and healthy choices, and first aid

 

Respectful relationships Families and parenting, healthy

relationships, conflict resolution, and relationship changes

 

Developing risk management skills, analytical skills and strategies to identify bias:

• Managing online presence

• Digital and media literacy

Intimate relationships

Relationships and sex education including consent, contraception, the risks of STIs, and attitudes to pornography

Peer influence, substance use and gangs

Healthy and unhealthy friendships, assertiveness, substance misuse, and gang exploitation

 

PfA: Community and Inclusion

How can the media influence people? Media literacy and digital resilience; influences and decision-making; online safety

 

Discrimination: Discrimination in all its forms, including: racism, religious discrimination, disability, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia

Taking care of the Environment, people and animals; shared responsibilities, making choices and decisions

 

PfA: Employment and Enterprise

 

 

Communication and Interaction focus

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

 

Christmas Focus

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

 

Christmas focus evaluation

Skills:

Money skills

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

Fiver Challenge

 

Skills:

Planning an enterprise activity

Creating

Evaluating how successful it was:

Fiver Challenge

 

PE

 

 

Multi skills

Invasion games skills

Badminton

Gymnastics

Games- Basketball/ Netball

Striking and Fielding

 

Athletics

SEMH

 

 

Re-visit Zones of Regulation 

and  

 Bucket Filler 

 

Headspace: an Introduction to Meditation 

 

 

Rotation 

Mindfulness: Paws. B 

What is anxiety? How does it affect me? 

Draw Breath: combining yoga, creativity and mindfulness 

 

Rotation 

Mindfulness: Paws. B 

What is anxiety? How does it affect me? 

Draw Breath: combining yoga, creativity and mindfulness 

Forest Bathing and Mindfulness in Nature 

Use of forest school area

Forest Bathing and Mindfulness in Nature 

Use of forest school area and possible

Year 9 Pupils to create a SEMH passport to take to next KS 

Possible Books

War Horse

War Horse

Darwin’s Dragons by Lyndsay Galvin 

Darwin's Voyage of Discovery by Jake Williams 

Poetry

Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

 

 

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