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YEAR 7 AND 8 TOPIC OVERVIEW

Subject Autumn Spring Summer

Year 7 English Poetry Unit: Writing and The Development of the A Midsummer Night’s
analysing English Language Dream
Creating a Poetry Anthology Literature Study Exam Preparation
Speak Out Media Study
Personal reading;
comprehension; SPaG

Year 8 English Poetry: Scholarship Poems Dragon’s Apprentice: public Shakespeare Film Festival
Poetry Slam speaking and persuasive Call My Bluff
Response to a whole text language. Exam Preparation
Authorial Technique
Year 7 Maths Mental and written methods Averages Algebraic notation
for the 4 operations Charts and graphs Simplifying
Powers and roots Probability Substitution
Negative numbers Angles Solving
Estimation Coordinates Expanding and factorising
Factors, multiples and primes Transformations Sequences
Four operations with
fractions
Fractions, decimals, %, Ratio
Year 8 Maths Straight line graphs Forming and solving Constructions and bisectors
HCF/LCM equations Probability
Calculator methods for Solving equations with x on Speed, distance, time,
percentages calculations both sides including graphs
Ratio, proportions and best nth term Revision
buys Expanding double brackets
Scatter graphs Area and perimeter
Circles Volume and surface area
Faces, edges, vertices
Isometric drawing and nets

Year 7 Science Ecology Atoms, elements and Acids and Alkalis.
Solar System compounds Plant nutrition.
States and separation Forces and motion Pressure.
Cells. Food and digestion. Levers and moments.
Magnetism

Year 8 Science Pressure. Classification and inher- Heart and lungs.
Human reproduction. itance. DNA. Rocks.
Chemical reactions. Microbes and disease.
Energy. Combustion.
Plant reproduction. Light and sound.
Electrical circuits.

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