Key Stage 3 Science

Sc 1 Scientific Enquiry - How Science Works

Experimental and investigative sciences, which is taught throughout the year as an integrated
part of the other three strands.

Sc 2 Life Processes and Living Things -

Green Plants
Living Things

Sc 3 Materials and their Properties -

Classifying Materials
Patterns of Behaviour

Sc 4 Physical Processes -
Light and Sound
Earth and Beyond
Forces and Motion

Teaching Groups:

Key Stage 3 Science is taught to mixed ability groups in year 7,8 and 9.

Assessment:

The course is presented as discrete modules; each term the students will study three modules,
one from each Sc 2, Sc 3 and Sc 4. Each module is assessed on its completion or through
formative level assessed tasks based on How Science Works criteria. A 45-minute test is set
at the end of the three modules. These scores are recorded on the database and used to assist
staff when awarding levels for reports and IPMs.

Topics covered:

Year 7: (New National Strategy Framework)

B1 Life Processes
C1 Particles
P1 Electricity and Magnetism

B2 Environment and Feeding Relationships

C2 Acids and Alkalis and Mixtures
P2 Forces

B3 Reproduction and Survival

C3 Simple Chemical Reactions
P3 The Universe and Energy
Year 8:

B4 Respiration
C4 Elements and Compounds
P4 Heating and Cooling

B5 Health and Microbes

C5 Metals, Materials and Elements
P5 Light

B6 - Behaviour and Variation

C6 - Rocks
P6 -Sound

Year 9
B7 Physiology
C7 Carbon Chemistry
P7 Space

B8 Genetics
C8 Materials and Industry
P8 Speed

KS3 Revision Programme

Science investigations

Key Stage 3 English

Years 7, 8 and 9 follow the objectives laid down in the National Curriculum 2000. In order to
achieve these, students follow a 'UNIT' approach. All students complete 4 units per academic
year. Each unit is approximately 9 weeks long. Each year the units comprise:

- 1 novel/short stories
- 1 play
- 1 poetry unit
- 1 Language and Media unit

The units of work for the academic year are chosen from the following:-

YEAR 7:
Frankenstein – Philip Pullman
The Demon Headmaster – Gillian Cross
Skellig – David Almond
Al Capone Does my Shirts - Gennifer Choldenke
Room 13

YEAR 8:
The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo
Holes – Louis Sachar
Underground to Canada – Barbara Smucker
Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Short Stories by Thomas Hardy
Face - Benjamin Zephaniah

YEAR 9:
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Stone Cold – Robert Swindells
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare
Heroes - Robert Cormier

All KS3 poetry units contain poems from other cultures & traditions and texts written before
1914.

In general, students take home their texts, allowing them to read in their own time and
requiring them to be responsible for their books. For gifted readers, many units suggest
connected texts for wider reading - sequels, works in the same genre and others by the same
author. For those students with reading difficulties a number of recordings exist of books
studied in class, usually of particular chapters though at times of the whole text. These are
available either from the English office or from the Special Needs departments.

In class, it is important that the students are offered a variety of ways of reading and
experiencing the text, including:

- activities in anticipation of the text (prediction exercises such as “Looking at your new book
cover” worksheet, sequencing ...)
- discussion and speaking and listening activities while reading

- written responses including writing to explore, imagine, entertain; argue, persuade, advise;
inform, explain, describe; analyse, review, comment.

- reflecting on the text and its qualities.

All Key Stage 3 classes have two homeworks per week which must be set according to the
timetable in the Student/Parent handbook. One of these homeworks is a reading homework.
Key Stage 3 Geography
Below we have outlined the main areas which students will study in each year of key stage 3.

Year 7

• What is geography?
• Geographical skills - you get a FREE MAP!!
• Weather and climate studies
• Rivers and flooding
• Settlement
• Our Local area

Year 8

• Weathering Rivers and Coasts

• Environmental Concerns eg endangered species, our threstened world
• Economic activity
• Population and Migration
• Kenya - a study of a LEDC

Year 9

• Natural Environments - with particular reference to the tropical rainforests,

issues, threats, management and Ecotourism
• Natural Hazards - tectonic hazards
• EU, Italy and the Global Fashion Industry
• Development Studies

Within geography we believe field trips to be a very important part of the education process
and as such are trying to develop trips to:

• Hounslow High Street

• Kew Gardens
• Natural History Museum
Key Stage 3 History
The study of History at Key Stage 3 provides our students with the opportunities to
experience over a thousand years of life in all its variety. They take a walk in the shoes of
people both ordinary and extraordinary. Each week they get to see the world through
different eyes and with different minds.

The purpose of History at Key Stage 3 is not simply to know facts but to
search for meaning in those facts.
Year 7 Year 8 Year 9
Medieval Realms Britain 1500-1750
The American West
(Britain 1066-1500) (Stuarts and Political Struggle)
Britain 1750-1900 From the Great War to
The Crusades
(Empire, Trade and Power) the Second World War
Britain 1500-1750
The Aztecs History of Terrorism
(Tudors and Early Modern Society)

1500-1750: The making of the United Kingdom

Important events pre-1500 [General information]

Richard III & the murder in the tower
Henry VII & the Battle of Bosworth

1500-1750: Kings, Queens and Rulers [Overview]

1500-1750: Major Events [Overview]

Spanish Armada
Gunpowder plot
Plague
Great Fire of London

The Tudors [General information and topics]

Henry VIII & the Reformation
Queen Elizabeth I

The Stuarts [General information and topics]

The English Civil Wars
Oliver Cromwell
Acts of Union
The Glorious Revolution to the '45

1500-1750: General topics

Images of an age
Witchcraft
Renaissance [including scientific discoveries]
Early European Overseas Exploration
The British Empire Being fixed
Key Stage 3 maths
Key Stage 3 Mathematics

The study of
Mathematics
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problem
solving skills.

Shape, Space and

Number and Algebra Year 9
Measures
Using and Applying Using and Applying Using and Applying
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to: Pupils should be taught to:

• Problem Solve • Solve problems • Problem Solve

• Communicate • Communicate • Communicate
• Reason • Reason • Reason

Number and the number Geometrical reasoning Geometrical reasoning

system
• Angles • Angles
• Integers • Propertities of • Propertities of
• Powers and roots triangles and triangles and
• Fractions other rectilinear other rectilinear
• Decimals shapes shapes
• Percentages • Properties of • Properties of
• Ratio and circles circles
proportion • 3D Shapes • 3D Shapes

Calculations Transformations and Transformations and

coordinates coordinates
• Number
operations and • Specifying • Specifying
the relationship transformations transformations
between them • Properties of • Properties of
• Mental methods transformations transformations
• Written methods • Coodinates • Coodinates
• Calculator
methods Measures and Measures and

Solving numerical
problems construction construction

• draw on • measures • measures

knowledge • construction • construction
• select • mensuration • mensuration
appropriate • loci
operations • loci
• checking
procedures

Equations, formulae and

identities

• Use of symbols
• Index notation
• Equations
• Linear Equations
• Formulae
• Direst Proportion
• Simultaneous
linear equations
• Inequalities
• Numerical
methods

Sequences, funtions and

graphs

• Sequences
• Functions

• Gradients