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Year 7 Themes

Curriculum

year 7 themes cover a wide variety of exciting and engaging topics. Below you can find a short description of each of the themes in year 7.

Each theme is delivered over a period of 3 or 4 weeks and incorporates group work and audienced learning around a Driving Question.

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English
Science
Geography
History
RE
Technology
Computing

Autumn Term

Citizen Me
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Find out more about Citizen Me

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Find out more about Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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Find out more about In Days of Old.

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Find out more about Fairy Tales.

spring term

Journeys
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Find out more about Journeys.

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Find out more about iRobot.

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Find out more about Water

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Find out more about Growing.

Summer term

Off With Your Head
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Find out more about Off With Your Head here

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DRIVING QUESTION: What techniques do silent movies use to communicate a narrative?  The Silent Movies theme aims to integrate many of the competency strands into a fun, interactive and creative theme. In order to answer the driving question, students must undertake a great deal of analysis, exploring the movies themselves as well as the era. The theme sets the scene for the understanding of silent movies by asking students to undertake historical research on the silent movie era and one of its most famous stars – Charlie Chaplin. Students are introduced to many of the acting and directing techniques and will learn about direct camera address, miming, comedy and how these techniques were used in the silent movies.  Students will work together in ‘production’ teams to create their own movies using the same techniques as the silent movie stars. There are opportunities for achieving progress in speaking and listening literacy during initial scoping sessions and rehearsals, written literacy in creating scripts and reading literacy in taking a script and bringing it to life on the screen as well as creating an Oscar speech. Science competencies are covered when students discover what sound is and the different properties of sound. This links into the end of the silent movie era when ‘talkies’ all but killed off silent films. Students will use technology to shoot, edit and ‘post-produce’ their films. Taking a ‘standard’ video, making it black and white, ageing it, adding appropriate music and intertitles are all new techniques that students have to master in order to create an authentic looking silent movie that originally may have been shot over 100 years ago.  

Review and Exam Weeks will be held twice during the year, at the end of the Autumn term and in the Summer term.

There will also be a series of Focus Days embedded within themes where students can explore an idea in greater depth. Focus Days can include off-site visits, guest speakers and workshops.