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| Baseline Assessment. Choose one of the buildings from the PowerPoint to draw. Make sure it suits your ability. Add detail, shading and texture with a pencil to draw. Do it on plain paper if you don’t have a printer and stick it in later. | Link to document Link to document Link to document Demonstration video |
| Finish your building drawing. Look at the learning journey to see what you need to have done to reach each step. | Link to document Link to document Link to document Demonstration video |
| Watch demonstration video. Practice drawing 3D shapes. Draw some imaginary buildings using 3D shapes. | Link to document Link to document Link to document Demonstration video |
| Produce a one-point perspective drawing using the resources and video links in the PowerPoint. Teacher demonstration also included. | Link to document Link to document Link to document |
| Finish off your perspective drawing or try a two-point perspective one if already completed. | Link to document Link to document Link to document |
| Watch the demonstration video and experiment with different types of line when drawing skylines. Then complete a continuous line drawing in pen. | Link to document Link to document Link to document |
| Week Commencing | Lesson Focus | Resources |
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| Half term 1 | E-safety | Watch the videos and complete the worksheets on this page. Link |
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| Language Skills Fiction Reading – 4 lessons | Link |
| Language Skills Fiction Writing – 4 lessons | Link |
| Language Skills Non-fiction Reading – Lessons 1 – 4 | Link |
| Language Skills Non-fiction Reading – Lessons 5 – 8 | Link |
| Language Skills Non-fiction Writing – 4 lessons | Link |
| Grammar for Writing – Lessons 1 – 4 | Link |
| Grammar for Writing – Lessons 5 – 8 | Link |
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| Staple Foods – complete the lesson from the booklet. | Link to document Link to recipe booklet |
| Make Pizza from the Recipe Booklet. If you are unable to make the pizza watch a video clip on how to make a pizza or make a similar product and video yourself making the product and email to your teacher. | Link to document Link to recipe booklet |
| Worldwide Food Sources – complete the lesson from the booklet. | Link to document Link to recipe booklet |
| Make Ratatouille from the Recipe Booklet. If you are unable to make the ratatouille watch a video clip on how to make a ratatouille or make a similar product and video yourself making the product and email to your teacher. | Link to document Link to recipe booklet |
| Unusual Vegetables – complete the lesson from the booklet. | Link to document Link to recipe booklet |
| Make Tuna, sweetcorn & broccoli bake from the Recipe Booklet. If you are unable to make the pasta bake watch a video clip on how to make a pasta bake or make a similar product and video yourself making the product and email to your teacher. | Link to document Link to recipe booklet |
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| Revision of gender and number | Link |
| Revision of the alphabet | Link |
| Avoir and etre | Link |
| Avoir and etre | Link |
| ER verbs | Link |
| Negatives | Link |
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| What is the global population? This lesson covers how the global population is changing, the differences between the population increase in developed and developing countries and how to calculate the percentage increases in population. | Link |
| Population distribution This lesson looks at what the distribution of population is like globally, where people live and why. It will also explore the different human physical factors which affect population density. | Link |
| Population pyramids In this lesson we learn about what population pyramids show us, how to read them and how to compare different populations using population pyramids. | Link |
| Demographic transition model and stages of development This lesson covers the Demographic Transition Model and considers how population structures change over time, and why. | Link |
| Managing Population This lesson will consider how countries might attempt to reduce the risk of overpopulation by controlling population growth. We learn about some ways that places like Kerala in India or China have tried to do this in the past, and how effective this has been. | Link |
| Migration – what is it? In this lesson we consider the different types of migration, what migration pattern looks like on a global level and what push and pull factors encourage migration. | Link |
| Factors affecting migration In this lesson we will learn about the differences between Mexico and the USA and how migration away from Mexico can have advantages and disadvantages for the source country. | Link |
| Impacts of migration In this lesson students will consider the impacts of migration by tackling the question: ‘Migration is positive for the USA’. To what extent do you agree? | Link |
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| What sort of King was James I? Gunpowder Plot: Was Guy Fawkes framed by James I? | Link Link |
| Gunpowder Plot: Was Guy Fawkes framed by James I? What caused the English Civil War? | Link Link |
| Who were the soldiers? What weapons were used in the English Civil War? Was parliament right to execute Charles I? | Link Link |
| Oliver Cromwell: hero or villain? Cromwell Assessment | Link Link to document |
| Industrial revolution: how had Britain changed from 1750-1900? Assessment feedback | Link Link to document |
| What was life like for children in the industrial revolution? What were conditions like in industrial towns? | Link Link |
| How did problems in the East End help Jack the Ripper? How did the Police operate in the 1880s and why was their job so difficult? | Link Link |
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| Solving Equations | Lesson 1 Lesson 2 |
| Fractions | Lesson 1 Lesson 2 |
| Ratio | Lesson 1 Lesson 2 |
| Area of 2D Shapes | Lesson 1 Lesson 2 |
| Expanding brackets | Lesson 1 Lesson 2 |
| Product of Primes | Lesson 1 Lesson 2 |
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| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
| PE with Joe Wicks | Link to video |
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| Workshop health and safety | Link to document |
| Workshop tools | Link to document |
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| Why are British Values important? | Link Link to document |
| If I ruled the world… | Link Link to document |
| How can I be a Good Samaritan? | Link Link to document |
| What’s worse, crimes or sins? | Link to document |
| Why do we need to forgive? | Link Link to document |
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