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Homework Schedule

We are delighted to present to you your child’s Homework Schedules for 2007-08. This is the second year that we have provided Homework Schedules for Year 7, 8 and 9 in this format and we very much hope that both parents/guardians and students will find them of considerable use. Each of the subjects taught in Year 7 has its own Homework Schedule and they are presented in alphabetical order for your convenience.


Purpose

The Homework Schedules have been designed by Subject Leaders to help both parents/guardians and students to complete homework to the best of the student’s ability. They are intended to provide an overview of homework for your child during the course of Year 7 and will be complemented with materials based on Digitalbrain and the School’s website. These materials may include guidance on specific homeworks, checklists and level descriptions for key assessments, links to useful materials and even on-line testing where appropriate. The Homework Schedules are intended to be a guide and are not designed to provide a week-by-week guide to specific homework.


Key Homeworks

Following a very detailed process of planning and subsequent review it is hoped that we have been able to enhance the homework experience for students at Thomas Adams School. Maths, French and German will continue to set a minimum of one homework every week, although there is an option to set one additional homework per week at the discretion of the teacher. English, Science, Geography, History, RE, ICT, PE, Drama and Music have identified Key Homeworks. These Key Homeworks are very important, often comprising several weeks work, and will be set a minimum of six times per year per subject. Shorter homeworks, which may support or reflect on the Key Homeworks, or be stand alone pieces of work, will also be set. Due to the nature of Technology, Art and LifeStyle, these subjects will continue to set and assess relevant homework at the discretion of the teacher. These Key Homeworks have been timetabled to avoid students having to complete several pieces of work at once. The timetable is intended to be a guide and can be found overleaf.


What Next…?

We would also like to point out that there are opportunities for your child to complete work during school time. The library is available every lunchtime for students to complete work and Room 10 is also available every lunchtime for any student who requires additional help. Moreover, many staff may be willing to offer a lunch and/or after school session on request. In addition, lunch-time and after-school study clubs will be made available to your child this year. We do hope that you find these Homework Schedules useful and would welcome your feedback. You can contact the school on enquiries@thomasadams.net or on the usual telephone number (01939 237000).

 


Key Homework Schedule

Autumn Term Year 7

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

  

 

Eng

ICT

Sci

RE

Drama

PE

Hist

Geog

Half

Term

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

  

Eng

RE

Drama

Hist

Sci

ICT

PE

Geog

Music

  

 

Spring Term Year 7

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

  

 

Eng

RE

ICT

Drama

Geog

Sci

PE

Hist

Half

Term

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

  

ICT

Eng

Drama

Sci

Geog

RE

PE

Hist

Music

  

 

Summer Term Year 7

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

  
Examination Period
(Revision)

Eng

Hist

Sci

English

Drama

PE

Geog

ICT
RE

Half

Term

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

  

Eng

ICT

Hist

RE

Drama

Geog

PE

Sci

Music

  

 

 

Subjects

Select the subject schedule you want to see.

 

Art

Lifestyle

Drama

Mathematics

English

Music

French

Physical Education

Geography

Religious Education

German

Science

History

Technology

 

 

Art

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

Graphic Design and Colour

Units of Work Covered:

Personal Identity

Units of Work Covered:

Built Environment/Sea and Weather
Homework Outline:
  • ‘Art Nouveau’ pattern Klimt
  • letterforms using the examples of Mucha and Mackintosh
  • ‘Psychadelia’ revisited
  • Art deco landscape based on Clarice Cliffe
  • Travel poster
Homework Outline:
  • ‘Mixtec’ design copies
  • ‘Modern’ mixtec composition
  • Drawing the head proportions
  • Drawing the head caricature
  • Portrait mask in the manner of another culture e.g. Egyptian, Viking etc.
  • Room interior
 Homework Outline:
  • Door and window studies
  • Fastenings, locks, bolts, latches
  • Cathedral composition ‘west front’
  • Print block preparation
  • Old woman who lived in a shoe
  • Lowry townscape
  • Fishy Business (Based on Klee)
  • Stormy day/fog
Details of Key Assessments
  • Lettering and pattern composition
 Details of Key Assessments
  • ‘Mixtec’ or ‘Egyptian’ composition
  • Low relief ‘portrait’ – clay/papier mache
 Details of Key Assessments
  • Fastenings composition ‘street style’
  • Print block/frottage based on architecture

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Drama

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

1. ‘Changes’. A scheme designed to introduce pupils to Drama through issues and a context that they will be familiar with and to allow them to explore their anxieties about the transition to secondary school.  The scheme focuses on problem solving and group work.

 

2. ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. This scheme challenges preconceptions and stereotypes in an aesthetically distanced but powerful context.  It seeks to introduce pupils to symbolic ways of exploring issues and to encourage high levels of negotiation both in and out of role.

Units of Work Covered:

1. ‘The Haunted House’. This scheme of work unites the class in a common enquiry and encourages a more physical exploration of a narrative.  It also allows pupils to explore and develop their understanding of how atmosphere and tension are created in Drama.

 

2. ‘What has happened to Lulu’. This scheme demonstrates how a poem can work as a stimulus for Drama and teaches pupils how to build up context and character from limited information.  It also gives them enough distance to explore issues that may be affecting their own lives.

Units of Work Covered:

1. ‘The Village of Gleam’.  This unit makes pupils use their previous context, character and atmosphere- building experience to create a new dramatic world from another time and culture.  This scheme also explores themes of greed, oppression and selfishness through narrative, poetic and reflective devices.

 

2. ‘Radio Play’ (cross curricular media unit). This scheme heightens pupils’ awareness of Drama’s involvement in various aspects of the media.  It requires pupils to work together in mixed groups to write and produce their own original radio play.
KEY CONVENTIONS USED TO EXPLORE SCHEMES
  • still images
  • mime
  • thought-tracking
  • documentary with narration
  • role play
  • small group improvisation
  • large group improvisation
  • forum theatre
  • paired interview
  • tableaux monument
 KEY CONVENTIONS USED TO EXPLORE SCHEMES
  • teacher in role
  • physical theatre
  • role play
  • small group improvisations
  • question in role
  • whole group improvisation
  • tableaux
  • ritual
  • time line images
  • individual mime
  • role swap
 KEY CONVENTIONS USED TO EXPLORE SCHEMES
  • visualise and verbalise
  • mapping
  • guided tour
  • tableaux monument
  • change the room
  • small group improvisation
  • whole group improvisation
  • 1st person action with 3rd person narration
  • contrasting images
  • forum theatre
  • freeze frame

Assessment

Pupils’ assessment will be continuous rather than focusing on a particular activity and will take into account their contributions to the entire scheme of work.  Pupils will receive a level for each scheme of work as well as being given regular verbal feedback and being encouraged and given time to appraise both themselves and their peers.

Notes:
Much of Drama homework will be reflective and pupils will be asked to consider and explore issues, problems and situations they have investigated in class.  Homework will always be practically linked to pupils’ classwork.  Any written tasks will seek to either further develop pupils’ understanding of their Drama or to help them to use subject-specific terminology.

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English

Literacy Objectives Linked to Common Pieces.

UNIT

EN1

EN2

EN3

HOMEWORK
The spy who learnt English Talk for ideas How language choice enhances meaning Plan/draft/edit/revise/proof
read & present text
Organisation of texts		 Find an example of the following types of writing: Review, Information, Argue, Persuade & Explain

 

Be prepared to explain how they match audience & purpose
Myths, Fantasy and Legend Recount a story Individual reading / critical reflection Describe object, person & setting Find a myth or a legend from a different culture & be prepared to recount this to the group

 

If it has a message, identify it
Prose Text Recall main events Reading strategies to extract information Write reflectively about a text Based on the set text of the group:

 

Look at cover, blurb & opening paragraph & discuss what information is gained from these

 

What do we then want to know?
Media Report main points of discussion. Infer & deduce meaning Express Opinion & Persuade Find or create an illustration for each of the following moods : loneliness, love, anger, joy, frustration, sorrow, dread, excitement, fear, despair & contentment
Drama Develop drama techniques Literary Heritage Portray character Research the Elizabethan theatre

 

Find out specifically about theatre lay-out, theatre-goers, London at that time

 

Prepare to discuss findings with group
Telling Tales & Text Transformation Structure a talk effectively Terminology for set, character, mood & word choice Structure story Identify your favourite Fairy Tale

 

List 10 things you would expect to find in a traditional Fairy Tale and explain how 5 are illustrated in their own Tale

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French

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

(1) Bienvenue! (Welcome!)

(2) Toi et Moi (You and me!)

Units of Work Covered:

(3) Au College (School)

(4) Mes Loisirs (Leisure)

Units of Work Covered:

(5)  Chez Moi (At home)

(6) Les Vacances (Holidays)

Homework Outline:

  • Weekly vocabulary test
  • Option of one other weekly homework, for example:
    • written exercises            
    • dictionary skills              
    • research                        
    • posters
    • puzzles and worksheets    
    • ICT produced work         
    • drawing and labelling      
    • pronunciation practice   

Homework Outline:

  • Weekly vocabulary test
  • Option of one other weekly homework, for example:
    • written exercises            
    • dictionary skills              
    • research                        
    • posters
    • puzzles and worksheets    
    • ICT produced work         
    • drawing and labelling      
    • pronunciation practice   

Homework Outline:

  • Weekly vocabulary test
  • Option of one other weekly homework, for example:
    • written exercises            
    • dictionary skills              
    • research                        
    • posters
    • puzzles and worksheets    
    • ICT produced work         
    • drawing and labelling      
    • pronunciation practice   

Details of Key Assessments
Unit 1 test (October)

Unit 2 test (December)

Details of Key Assessments
Unit 3 test (February)

Unit 4 test (March/April) or Year 7 exam

Details of Key Assessments
 Unit 5 test (May)
 Unit 6 test (July)

Notes:
During the year all four language skills are tested (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
The Year 7 exam incorporates all 4 skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The Year 7 exam result is a very important factor for setting groups for Year 8 but effort and progress throughout the year will also be taken into account.

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Geography

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

Maps and Landscapes

Units of Work Covered:

Settlements and Economy

Units of Work Covered:

Weather and Climate

Homework Outline:

  • Location Map Test – The Continents
  • What is Geography?
  • Super Shropshire Maps
  • Grid References Practice
  • Contour Mapping Exercise
  • Scale drawing of rooms at home
  • Latitude and Longitude Practice
  • Assessment 1: Mapskills Test
  • Assessment 2: Manchester Enquiry Project

Homework Outline:

  • Location Map Test – United Kingdom
  • What is a settlement?
  • Settlement Hierarchy
  • Urban v Rural Poem
  • Work on Settlement Shape
  • Shrewsbury as a Settlement Site
  • Assessment 3: Land Use in Wem
  • Assessment 4: Bobby the Baked Bean

Homework Outline:

  • Location Map Test – Asia
  • Types of jobs: primary/secondary/tertiary
  • Assessment 5: Forecasting the Weather
  • 3 Rainfall types and causes
  • Weather associated with a depression
  • Understanding climate zones
  • Mediterranean/Desert/Equatorial Ecosystems
  • Assessment 6: Winter Travel Assessment
Details of Key Assessments
Key Homework 1 – will test basic mapskills including scale, contours, grid references, compass directions and distances/routes

 

Key Homework 2 – is based around a visit to different areas of Manchester to look at settlements. This enquiry project will require students to reflect on fieldwork observations and make hypothetical decisions.		 Details of Key Assessments
Key Homework 3 – develops understanding of land use in Wem and how it relates to a basic land-use model. Work completed is based on a short visit to different areas of Wem.

 

Key Homework 4 – a written piece of work on the life cycle of a baked bean! It is intended to pull together all jobs involved in making baked beans and enhance understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.		 Details of Key Assessments
Key Homework 5 – students study how weather forecasts are created and requires them to produce their own forecast – often recorded onto film!

 

Key Homework 6 – requires students to apply their knowledge of climate and vegetation zones to develop an around-the-world holiday

Notes:

Examples of students’ work for Key Assessments will be available on the Geography section of the School website along with examples of written Key Assessments – including instructions and level criteria checklists so students know what they need to do to reach a specific level. Explanation and commentary for many of the non-Key Assessment homeworks can also be found on the Geography area of the website along with links to useful additional information. Geography staff are available to help students during break, lunchtime or after school – this can be arranged between staff and students at a mutually convenient time. Please encourage your child to ask their Geography teacher if they require any help. Finally, we would encourage you to monitor the progress of your child in terms of Key Assessments via the record sheet inside the front cover of their Geography book.

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German

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

(1) Hallo! (Hello!)

(2) Die Schule (School)

Units of Work Covered:

(3) Meine Familie (My Family)

(4) Freizeit (Free Time)

Units of Work Covered:

(5) Zu Hause (At Home)

(6) In der Stadt (In Town)

Homework Outline:

  • Weekly vocabulary test
  • Option of one other weekly homework, for example:
    • written exercises            
    • dictionary skills              
    • research                        
    • posters
    • puzzles and worksheets    
    • ICT produced work         
    • drawing and labelling      
    • pronunciation practice   

Homework Outline:

  • Weekly vocabulary test
  • Option of one other weekly homework, for example:
    • written exercises            
    • dictionary skills              
    • research                        
    • posters
    • puzzles and worksheets    
    • ICT produced work         
    • drawing and labelling      
    • pronunciation practice   

Homework Outline:

  • Weekly vocabulary test
  • Option of one other weekly homework, for example:
    • written exercises            
    • dictionary skills              
    • research                        
    • posters
    • puzzles and worksheets    
    • ICT produced work         
    • drawing and labelling      
    • pronunciation practice   

Details of Key Assessments
Unit 1 test (October)

Unit 2 test (December)

Details of Key Assessments
Unit 3 test (February)

Unit 4 test (March/April) or Year 7 exam

Details of Key Assessments
 Unit 5 test (May)
 Unit 6 test (July)

Notes:
During the year all four language skills are tested (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
The Year 7 exam incorporates all 4 skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The Year 7 exam result is a very important factor for setting groups for Year 8 but effort and progress throughout the year will also be taken into account.

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History

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

The Roman Empire

Units of Work Covered:

The Roman Empire and Medieval Realms

Units of Work Covered:

Medieval Realms

Homework Outline:

  • Who were the Romans?
  • Obituary of Julius Caesar
  • Roman soldier’s diary
  • Research tasks
  • Spelling tests

Homework Outline:

  • Why did the Roman Empire collapse?
  • Roman Legacy
  • Who should be the next King of England?
  • Why did William win?
  • Research tasks
  • Spelling tests

Homework Outline:

  • Castles
  • The Feudal System
  • The Black Death
  • Research tasks
  • Spelling test

Details of Key Assessments

Empathy: to write a letter from the viewpoint of a Roman soldier.

Details of Key Assessments

Analysis: Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?

Details of Key Assessments

Interpretation: ‘The Black Death was an Act of God’.  Do you agree?

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ICT

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

Using ICT and Video Editing

E-Mail (Digital Brain)

Units of Work Covered:

Flash animation
Data- designing structure, capturing and presenting data
Introduction to modelling and presenting data

Units of Work Covered:

Finish Modelling

Using data and information sources

Homework Outline:

  • Create a leaflet plan.
  • Revise keywords.
  • Evaluate their own video and their leaflet using keywords.

Homework Outline:

  • Create a story board for Flash animation.
  • Revise keywords.
  • Research the use of databases outside of school.

Homework Outline:

  • Generate a flow diagram – Preparing for school in the morning.
  • Revise keywords

Details of Key Assessments

  • Each individual unit outcome is assessed.
  • All units will also be assessed through an on-line test

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Lifestyle

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

 

Starting Out

  • Course components
  • Ground rules
  • Support networks
  • Thinking skills
  • Achievement *
  • Rules *
Health
  • Definitions
  • Aspects
  • Bullying
  • Communication
  • Coping with situations

Units of Work Covered:

  • ‘Make it real’ game *
A citizenship / careers programme involving students in a range of ‘real life’ activities that may require research and support from home

 

Units of Work Covered:

 

Smoking and solvents
  • Risk
  • Why smoke?
  • Pressure
  • Persuasion
  • The tobacco trade
  • Misuse of volatile substances
Media
  • What is media?
  • Personal and group consumption *
  • Organisations

 

Notes:

Lifestyle will not have regular homeworks but students will be expected to undertake various research assignments and assessments that will require work to be completed at home.  Those marked with * are particularly likely to involve work outside the classroom.  Assessment is primarily carried out within the lessons and is often based on personal evaluation and self- and peer assessment as the lessons are concerned with skills, attitudes and values as much as knowledge and understanding.

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Mathematics

Notes:

The year seven syllabus is essentially the Framework for Mathematics common to all schools in the country. We study Algebra, Number, Shape and Space and Handling Data and various aspects of these four disciplines are studied throughout the year. The emphasis in Primary Schools recently has been on improving problem-solving techniques in mathematics and we would like to continue to develop these skills throughout the period of time that your child will be at our school.  With this in mind, we have looked very closely at our homework policy for year seven and have now trialled and refined various pieces of work. Your child will be expected to do one or in some cases two homeworks per week for maths, each one requiring approximately 30 minutes work. One of the homeworks, which will be common for all year seven students will be based on developing their problem solving techniques. With this in mind your child will be given a booklet each term; this booklet is kept at home until the end of term when it must be returned in order to get the next term’s booklet. If the booklet gets lost then a small fee of 50p will be charged to cover printing costs. The other homework will be a consolidation of work started in class.

Homework Outline Autumn:
  • One homework from work done in class, one homework from the Autumn Term Mathematics Homework Booklet
 Homework Outline Spring:
  • One homework from work done in class, one homework from the Spring Term Mathematics Homework Booklet
 Homework Outline Summer:
  • One homework from work done in class, one homework from the Summer Term Mathematics Homework Booklet

Details of Key Assessments

 

Competition

To take place before and during half term to design and make a mask with one line of symmetry.

Details of Key Assessments

 

Competition

(i)     to split a square into two congruent parts and to present the final design, using colours, onto a sheet of A4 paper.
(ii)     to produce a magic square.

Details of Key Assessments

 

Competition

To shade a square showing two halves and to produce colourfully on a piece of A4 paper.

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Music

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

ELEMENTS OF MUSIC / I GOT RHYTHM

Units of Work Covered:

KEYBOARD / ORCHESTRA

Units of Work Covered:

MUSIC & MEDIA

Homework Outline:

  • Learning Key words – The Elements
  • Research ‘All Stations to…’
  • Graphic scores
  • Learn note values
  • Composer research
  • Indonesian music/culture

Homework Outline:

  • Create memory device for note names (mnemonic)
  • Research orchestral ‘families’
  • Composer research
  • Performance evaluation

Homework Outline:

  • Explore features of ‘Gamelan’
  • Comparison of ‘cartoon’ soundtrack
  • Concert preparation
  • Composer research

Details of Key Assessments
‘Underground Music’ - Composition

‘Kecak Chorus’ - Performance

Details of Key Assessments
Keyboard – Performance

Listening – Instruments of the Orchestra

 Details of Key Assessments
Performance
Composition of soundtrack

Notes:

All homework tasks can be completed in the music department. All of the necessary resources are located in the department where students are free to use them at lunch times and after school (until 5pm). Access to computers, relevant software and instruments means that no student should be in a position where they can’t complete a homework task because of lack of specialised resources at home. Teaching and support staff will be on hand to assist and support students where possible and appropriate.

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Physical Education

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

Basketball, Football, Table-tennis, Swimming, Netball, Gymnastics

Units of Work Covered:

Basketball, Football, HRE, Dance, Swimming, Gymnastics, Orienteering

Units of Work Covered:

Rounders, Netball, Athletics, Cricket, Softball       
Homework Outline:
  • Pupils to explain what they enjoy about physical education and why
  • Pupils to design appropriate and innovative PE kit
 Homework Outline:
  • Why are health and safety issues and the appropriate kit important to the participation of PE?
  • What is a warm up?
    Why is a warm up carried out before any physical activity?
Homework Outline:
  • Select a sports role model and explain why he or she is important to you
  • How fit am I?

Details of Key Assessments

 

Assessments will give pupils the opportunity to inform staff of likes and dislikes towards PE.  It will also address pupils’ strengths and weaknesses and identify clubs that they belong to both at school and outside of school.

 

It will address pupils motivation and how they feel about PE and sessions delivered.		 Details of Key Assessments
 
During the spring term pupils will address safety in detail i.e. surface area, appropriate clothing, protective clothing, removal of any valuable items, equipment handling and personal hygiene.

 

Pupils will be informed of how to warm up correctly and asked to prepare small warm up activities. 		Details of Key Assessments
 
Recognised sports events will be addressed and pupils will be encouraged to think about role models within a range of sports.
 
Pupils will analyse their strengths and weaknesses in performance and compare notes to those written at the start of the year.  Finally pupils will be able to assess personal levels of fitness and learn of the components required within a sport of their choice.  Pupils will be able to set targets for year 8.

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Religious Education

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Units of Work Covered:

 

How do religious and secular beliefs give purpose and direction in life?

 

What is the value of belonging to a religious group?

Units of Work Covered:

 

What is the value of belonging to a religious group?…continued

 

Why is symbolism used in religion?

Units of Work Covered:

 

Why is symbolism conveyed in religious writing?….continued

 

What form of truth is conveyed in religious writing?

Details of Key Homework Tasks

Assessment 1  - How did Mother Theresa show love to her neighbour?
After investigating the life of Mother Theresa, pupils will be asked to describe the ways in which this teaching of Jesus gave purpose and direction to the life of Mother Theresa.

 

Assessment 2 – How do religious and secular beliefs give purpose and direction in life?
This will examine student’s knowledge and understanding of the way in which a variety of beliefs, both religious and secular, can influence a person’s lifestyle.

 

In addition, supporting homework tasks (including  revision for tests) may be set, at the discretion of the class teacher, which will help students build up to the level of knowledge required to complete these key assessments.

Details of Key Homework Tasks

Assessment 3 – Synagogue Project
This will allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of Jewish worship and practices as they plan an imaginary Synagogue building in Wem, and write a letter to the council explaining why such a building is so important for the Jewish community.

 

Assessment 4 – The 5 K’s
This will encourage students to demonstrate their knowledge of the 5 K’s within Sikhism, and their awareness of the symbolism of these artefacts.

 

In addition, supporting homework tasks (including  revision for tests) may be set, at the discretion of the class teacher, which will help students build up to the level of knowledge required to complete these key assessments.

Details of Key Homework Tasks

Assessment 5 –  During the first half of the summer term students will complete both an Artefacts Test and their Year 7 Exam Paper.  Both of these will examine the pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the relevant topics.  A revision sheet will be provided for the Year 7 exam.

 

Assessment 6 – ‘The Feeding of the 5,000 is completely true.’  Discuss.  As well as explaining your own opinion, you must show that you have thought about the views of others. 
This will encourage students to examine a wide range of responses (both religious and secular) to a famous Biblical account.

 

In addition, supporting homework tasks (including  revision for tests) may be set, at the discretion of the class teacher, which will help students build up to the level of knowledge required to complete these key assessments.

Notes:
The module titles are taken from the locally agreed Shropshire Agreed Syllabus.
Your child has a progress sheet at the front of their book, to which we would encourage you to refer, containing information regarding academic development in RE.

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Science

Key homeworks with a Biology bias

Key homeworks with a Chemistry bias

Key homeworks with a Physics bias
Unit 7A Cells
“What are cells like?” (literacy task)

 

Unit 7B Reproduction
“How does fertilisation happen?”
(literacy task)

 

Unit 7C Environment/feeding relationships
“Identifying adaptation”
(literacy/ICT task)

 

Unit 7D Variation and classification
“Investigating variation”
(Numeracy SC1 task) 		Unit 7E Acids and alkalis
“Acid Rain”
(literacy/numeracy task)

 

Unit 7F Simple Chemical reactions
“Fireworks”
(literacy/numeracy task)

 

Unit 7G Particle models
“Tasty particles”
(literacy task)

 

Unit 7H Solutions
“Journey of a salt particle” (literacy & numeracy task) 		Unit 7I Energy resources
“What happens when the oil runs out?” (literacy task)

 

Unit 7J Electrical circuits
“How do we draw circuits properly?” (communication task)

 

Unit 7K Forces and their Effects
“The Bungee jump test!” (numeracy & literacy  task)

 

Unit 7L Solar System and beyond
“Interpreting data from the planets” (numeracy task)

Students will complete 6 of the above 12 activities

Please note:  Pupils receive a detailed description of each homework task before they start.

In order that Year 7 Science lessons are effectively resourced, the above Units are taught in different orders for different classes. Therefore, the key homeworks indicated will be completed at different times of the year for different pupils.
Pupils in Year 7 will do a selection of 6 activities from the above list of 12; these will be done at approximately half-term intervals. There may be other homeworks set by the Science teacher during the year, and pupils will also be expected to undertake revision for End of Unit tests and the End of Year Exam.

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Technology

Topic Homework Outline Assessment Focus
Resistant Materials
  • Key Vocabulary – Revise and learn keywords and phrases related to unit
  • Increasing understanding and literacy
CAD / CAM
  • Puzzle design – design a puzzle using the same design specification as the CAD version
  • Developing and modelling ideas
Textiles
  • Decorative Techniques
  • Understanding materials and literacy
Product Design
  • Isometric Drawing – drawing of basic geometric shapes
  • Effective use of communication techniques
Food
  • Key Vocabulary – revise and learn
  • Increasing understanding and literacy

Notes:

The making of high-quality products is the manifestation of the Design and Technology framework in schools. In Year 7 Technology, focus is placed on the practical element of the framework. Homeworks are designed to increase the capability of knowledge, values, attitudes and skills which underpin the practical outcome. Students take part in a ‘carousel’ system in which they move between each area of Technology as the year progresses. Typically students cover 5 areas in Year 7: Resistant Materials, Product Design, Computer-Aided-Design & Manufacture (CAD/CAM), Textiles and Food. At any one time the year group is engaged on all five areas concurrently.  The overview for homework, therefore, needs to be on a yearly basis.  Also because of the dynamics of Design & Technology i.e. curriculum change and development focus will continue to be based on the National KS3 Strategy for Design and Technology.

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