Year 8 Curriculum Map

The curriculum is the same as year 7 except students In year 8 specialise in two languages with a choice from French, Latin or Spanish. They also have an extra science lesson per fortnight and no longer have a GLR lesson.

Year 8 core subjects

English

Maths

Science

Core PE

English is taught for 6 lessons a fortnight

Maths is taught for 6 lessons a fortnight

Science is taught for 6 lessons a fortnight

PE is taught for 4 lessons a fortnight

	Curriculum Map Of Topic Areas Studied In Year 8
	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1		Summer 2
English	Modern literary text from Animal Farm or A Question of Courage or Of Mice and Men or Pygmalion		The language of food	Poetry focus on women	A Christmas Carol featuring Victorian extracts		Shakespeare Unit The Tempest or Merchant of Venice or Much Ado About Nothing
Maths	HCF and LCM, parallel lines and transformations, venn diagrams and sample space, percentages, congruency, straight line graphs, rearranging formulae,		Standard form, pie charts, scatter diagrams, expressions with brackets, ratio to solve problems, surface area and volumes of prisms, fractions and decimals			Direct and inverse proportions, circles, graphs, pythagoras’ theorem
Biology	Variation and inheritance		Health and lifestyle		New technology
Chemistry	Acids and alkalis	Periodic table	Periodic table	Reactions of elements	Reaction of elements		Atmosphere and climate
Physics Taught in rotation to allow enough equipment for practical experiments	Magnetism, electricity, energy, pressure and moments		Magnetism, electricity, energy, pressure and moments		Magnetism, electricity, energy, pressure and moments
Core PE	Over the course fof the year all students will study athletics (track and field), badminton, dance, fitness, gymnastics, football, hockey, netball, rounders and rugby
French	Introductory French recap	We love Paris	My identity	At my place at your place!	What Talent?		Discovery Studio
Spanish	Mis vacaciones	Todo sobre mi vida	A comer!	Que Hacemos?	Operacion verano		Cultural topic
Latin	Cena / Gladiatores	Thermae / rhetor candidati / Vesuvius in Britannia	Candidati / Vesuvius	In Britannia	Apud Salvium		Rex Cogidubnus / in aula
Geography	Rivers	Rivers	Population change and migration	Population change and migration	Cold environment		Climate change
History	Elizabeth to James Charles I and causes of the civil war	Civil war Cromwell – hero or villain Restoration	Industrial revolution	Empire	Slave trade and abolition movement		Civil war to civil rights
RS	Christian beliefs	Sciece and religion (Christianity)	Introduction to applied ethics	Religion and the environment project	Skills and revision building		Free will and determination
Art	Identity		Culture		Under the sea
Creative Arts	Food and Nutrition		Textiles Fabric roll-ups		Graphics Artist alphabet
Computing	Introduction to python	Computational thinking	Navigating maze	How computers communicate	Algorithms		Python revisited
Drama	Forum theatre	Giraffe Boy	The Importance of Being earnest	The Comedy of Manners		The Comedy of Manners	Physical Theatre
Music	Students work on a combination of areas that include African drumming, salsa, pop music and musical theatre

Beaconsfield High School

Beaconsfield High School
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Year 8 Curriculum Map