Year 7 Booklet - Broughton Hall High School

Opening Minds: I Am Unique Overview
Literacy
You will develop your writing skills. You will learn
about the features of autobiographical writing
(Inform/Explain/Describe)and use these to create a piece
of writing. You will also read the novel 'Skellig' by David
Almond.
RE
You will learn about how God created you as special and unique, and what it means to belong to the
Christian community.
History
You will produce a timeline of the eleven years of your life so far. The timeline will be to scale, fully
illustrated, and contain information from your life and national and world events. You will colourcode
you timeline to categorize the various important moments in your life
Geography.
You need to develop skills to make the connections. The skills are: Understanding Scale,
Understanding Grid References, Understanding Direction, interpreting an O S map of Liverpool.
Technology
You will use a simple design process to analyse, research and design a coat of arms that represents
who you are and what makes you unique
Information Technology
I.T. has revolutionised education and research, whatever we need to know we can always "Google
it" to find an answer. It seems, however, that everything good has a bad side, keeping yourself safe
is a difficult and complex task. You have to be aware of the danger of using the internet and be
proactive in staying safe online.
PSHE
You will learn about your personal safety and how to avoid difficult or dangerous situations.
CLiL is where a Spanish native teacher will delivers lessons in Spanish. Some pupils will be taught
exactly the same content as all the other students only some of the lessons will be delivered in
Spanish.
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