Year 7 Booklet - Broughton Hall High School

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Contents What is expected in Year 7 ..................................................................................................................... 3 The Year 7 Curriculum ............................................................................................................................. 3 Assessment ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Moodle .................................................................................................................................................... 4 E-safety ................................................................................................................................................... 4 What is Opening Minds? ......................................................................................................................... 5 Opening Minds: I Am Unique Overview ................................................................................................. 7 Opening Minds: Going Global Overview ................................................................................................. 8 Opening Minds: The Play’s The Thing Overview ..................................................................................... 9 Opening Minds: Faith, Hope & Charity ................................................................................................. 10 Opening Minds: Now and Then ............................................................................................................ 11 Opening Minds: A Sporting role ............................................................................................................ 12 Mathematics ......................................................................................................................................... 13 Physical Education ................................................................................................................................ 14 Science .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Art & Design .......................................................................................................................................... 16 Music ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 MFL........................................................................................................................................................ 19 Page 2 of 19
What is expected in Year 7 In Year 7 our priority is to ensure that pupils are settling into secondary school life, have made friends, are happy coming to school and are happy with their learning. We are conscious that a lot may have been done for them in primary school and part of our job is to make Year 7 pupils become independent learners who are organised and can use their initiative. This may take some time but the curriculum and pastoral time will aid this process. By October half term Year 7 pupils will have found their feet and will know how the school systems operate. After this time pupils start to make great strides in academic and social settings. They will have found a new set of friends from the ones they came from primary school with and should feel confident in their learning. Well motivated learners who always take advantage of The Year 7 Curriculum Year7 have 5 1 hour lessons per day. Their curriculum is designed differently from other years in order to aid transition and to lay the competences foundation for their learning in secondary school. Subjects which are taught ‘alone’ in Year 7 include Maths, Science, Art, Music, PE and MFL (modern foreign languages) Subjects which are taught in the integrated competence based curriculum called OPENING MINDS are Literacy, RE, Geography, History, ICT, Technology, PSHE and the CLIL programme for pupils in 7Bf and 7Hd. In OPENING MINDS links between subjects are made by pupils being taught in thematic modules which are delivered in half termly slots, each one lasting approximately six weeks. Six modules are taught between September and July and each one begins with a Big Picture and ends with a Celebration. The Big Picture lasts one hour and enables the pupils to understand and to ‘see’ what will happen in the six weeks which follow. The Celebration will allow each of the 10 Opening Minds groups to celebrate their learning in front of their peer group. Towards the end of the module, several days are set aside as ‘Reflection and Review’ days. These days will allow subject teachers to discuss progress and targets with each pupil in their set. Assessment PROCESS pieces of work will be completed in exercise books and will be marked with the school’s common mark scheme BUILD and should include her targets for improvement. PRODUCT pieces of work will be completed on file paper and will be kept in each pupil’s ring binder in class. These will be awarded with a National Curriculum level. ASSESSMENT in MATHS, MUSIC, ART, MFL, SCIENCE & PE Information regarding assessment in these subjects can be found on the following pages. Page 3 of 19
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Page 7 and 8: Opening Minds: I Am Unique Overview
Page 9 and 10: Opening Minds: The Play’s The Thi
Page 11 and 12: Opening Minds: Now and Then Literac
Page 13 and 14: Mathematics AUTUMN TERM Multilpes,
Page 15 and 16: Science In Key Stage 3 all students
Page 17 and 18: Assessment: Pupils will be given a
Page 19: MFL In Year 7 most students will fo

Year 7 Booklet - Broughton Hall High School

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