Year 9
Subject Area French
• Content
Term Spring 1 & 2
Topic: • My studies Free time activities (1)
Students will continue to increase their range of French vocabulary and structures as they look at the topics of education and free time. Students will continue to develop their ability to understand more complex written and spoken passages and containing a range of verbs in present, perfect and future tenses. They will develop the range of structures that they are able to use productively in their writing and speaking, such as adverbs and two verbs together, as well as their translation skills.
What knowledge and competencies will be assessed?
All four skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) will be assessed through a mixture of informal classroom activities and more formal assessments. Knowledge of vocabulary and specific grammatical structures will be assessed through regular quizzing.
How will this unit be assessed? Translation tasks (French-English, English-French) Listening/reading comprehension tasks Speaking assessment
When will this take place?
Assessment is ongoing in every lesson and teacher feedback will take place regularly. Student progress relative to GCSE grades will be assessed every half term.
Helpful further reading/discussion
We would encourage you to ask students to report back on their lessons and encourage them to share their learning and progress. Please encourage students to watch French films and to support their learning with relevant fiction and non-fiction material that focusses on this language.
How can parents help at home?
Please encourage students to practise their French vocabulary at home. Practice of key words is essential to progress, the more opportunity to do this the better.
Year 9 • Content
Subject Area German
Term Spring 1 & 2
Topic: Home town, neighbourhood and region; school life and daily routine
Students will continue to increase their range of German vocabulary and knowledge of grammar. This term they will extend their knowledge of cases to include the dative and look at the use of the accusative and dative with prepositions. They will be able to give their opinions and use adjectives (including superlatives) and a wider range of verbs in the present tense (including separable verbs and reflexive verbs).
What knowledge and competencies will be assessed? Knowledge of vocabulary Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills
How will this unit be assessed? Regular vocabulary, listening and reading comprehensions; formal speaking and writing assessments.
When will this take place?
Assessment is ongoing in every lesson and teacher feedback will take place regularly. Student progress relative to GCSE grades will be given every half term.
Helpful further reading/discussion
We would encourage you to ask students to report back on their lessons and encourage them to share their learning and progress. Please encourage students to watch German films and to support their learning with relevant fiction and non-fiction material that focusses on this period.
How can parents help at home?
Please encourage students to practise their German vocabulary at home. Practice of key words is essential to progress, the more opportunity to do this the better.
Year 9
Subject Area Latin •
Term Spring 1 & 2
Topic: ALEXANDRIA & BATH
Content
Students will continue to increase their range of Latin vocabulary and reduce their reliance on reference materials. They will develop their knowledge of cases to now include nominative, vocative, accusative genitive and dative. Students will continue to develop their ability to read more complex passages containing a range of verbs in present, perfect, imperfect and pluperfect tenses. Understanding of present and past participles will be added to this, as well as the concept of passive and active verbs. The emphasis continues to be on acquisition of language to be able to show understanding of a story as the saga continues in Alexandria and Bath.
What knowledge and competencies will be assessed?
Knowledge of vocabulary Translation skills – Latin to English Ability to understand a text in Latin.
How will this unit be assessed? Translation tasks Comprehension tasks
When will this take place?
Assessment is ongoing in every lesson and teacher feedback will take place regularly. Mastery feedback will be given every half term reviewing student progress.
Helpful further reading/discussion
We would encourage you to ask students to report back on their lessons and encourage them to share their learning and progress. Please encourage students to watch documentaries/dramatisations of ancient Roman life and to support their learning with relevant fiction and non-fiction material that focusses on this period. The website www.cambridgescp.com has links to cultural material as well as helpful exercises and a vocabulary tester to assist with the language side of the course.
How can parents help at home?
Please encourage students to practise their Latin vocabulary at home. Practice of key words is essential to progress, the more opportunity to do this the better.
Subject Information Year 9
Subject Area Term Maths Spring 1 Topics: Ratio and Proportion; Perimeter, area and circumference; real-life equations Content To begin the spring term the students will deepen their understanding and knowledge of measures of proportion by looking at using ratios. In our shape topic we will be exploring properties and rules for 2D shapes with plenty of opportunity for challenge by integrating algebra and Pythagoras’ theorem. We finish by applying algebra to real-life circumstances; taking a scenario and evaluating it algebraically whilst making attempts to visualise these with graphs. What knowledge and competencies will be assessed? Key Knowledge Checkpoints ● Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part:part or part:whole ratio; express the division of a quantity into two parts as a ratio; apply ratio to real contexts and problems ● Know the formulae: circumference of a circle, area of a circle, calculate perimeters of 2D shapes, including circles areas of circles ● Plot and interpret graphs, and graphs of non-standard functions in real contexts, to find approximate solutions to problems such as simple kinematic problems involving distance, speed and acceleration including reciprocal and exponential graphs How will this unit be assessed? When will this take place? Exam style assessment End of half term Book marking According to policy Helpful further reading/discussion BBC bitesize website AQA revision guide How can parents help at home? Discuss through the knowledge organiser with your son/daughter
Subject Information Year 9
Subject Area Maths Topics: Scatter Graphs, Probability, Standard Form
Term Spring 2
Content In this half term we will learn how to confidently use charts to compare more than one data point, whilst doing this we will learn a lot more about correlation. In our probability module we will look to expand on what we learnt in KS3 and begin to look at different ways of representing and calculating multiple probabilities for multiple events. We have looked at writing and translating standard form in year 8, we will now look at how indices calculations occur and how this impacts calculating with standard form. What knowledge and competencies will be assessed? Key Knowledge Checkpoints ● Use and interpret scatter graphs of bivariate data recognise correlation know that it does not indicate causation draw estimated lines of best fit make predictions interpolate and extrapolate apparent trends whilst knowing the dangers of so doing ● Apply ideas of randomness, fairness and equally likely events to calculate expected outcomes of multiple future experiments ● Calculate with and interpret standard form How will this unit be assessed? When will this take place? Exam style assessment End of half term Book marking According to policy Helpful further reading/discussion BBC bitesize website AQA revision guide How can parents help at home? Discuss through the knowledge organiser with your son/daughter
Year 9
Subject Area Spanish
• Content
Term Spring 1 & 2
Topic: • My studies Free time activities (1)
Students will continue to increase their range of Spanish vocabulary and structures as they look at the topics of education and free time. Students will continue to develop their ability to understand more complex written and spoken passages containing a range of verbs in present, perfect, imperfect and future tenses. They will develop the range of structures that they are able to use productively in their writing and speaking as well as their translation skills.
What knowledge and competencies will be assessed?
All four skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking) will be assessed through a mixture of informal classroom activities and more formal assessments. Knowledge of vocabulary and specific grammatical structures will be assessed through regular quizzing.
How will this unit be assessed? Translation tasks (Spanish-English, English-Spanish) Listening/reading comprehension tasks Speaking assessment
When will this take place?
Assessment is ongoing in every lesson and teacher feedback will take place regularly. Student progress relative to GCSE grades will be assessed every half term.
Helpful further reading/discussion
We would encourage you to ask students to report back on their lessons and encourage them to share their learning and progress. Please encourage students to watch Spanish films and to support their learning with relevant fiction and non-fiction material that focusses on this language.
How can parents help at home?
Please encourage students to practise their Spanish vocabulary at home. Practice of key words is essential to progress, the more opportunity to do this the better.
