KS3 AND KS4 CURRICULUM
**We are currently updating this section of our website to share with you are exciting new curriculum.
We have dedicated a lot of time to ensuring that our Academy curriculum is well suited to meeting the needs of all of our learners and that they have access to quality resources available allowing them to take ownership of their own learning.
Learning Handbooks
Our new Learning Handbooks have been designed to give our community a clear understanding of how our curriculum is constructed and to contain a comprehensive breakdown of exactly what our students are learning.
For your convenience, we have separated our KS3 curriculum into individual year group (years 7, 8 and 9) booklets and have our full KS4 curriculum within one booklet, but separated into year group sections. We have also separated the curriculum into termly content; i.e. each year group will have an Autumn, Spring and Summer booklet. Our Autumn booklets are available below.
Within each subject there are direct links to any relevant Knowledge Organisers (see below).
Curriculum by Faculty
Within this section you will find our:
► Faculty Handbooks
Our Faculty Handbooks provide more information about each specific faculty within the Academy.
► Knowledge Organisers
Our Knowledge Organisers are 'learning mats' that have been designed to contain all of the key learning for that subject's topic. Our students will use these within their lessons but are also encouraged to use them to support their own learning, homework and for revision.
We have linked any relevant KOs within the appropriate section of our Learning Handbooks but have also made them available below for extra convenience.
LEARNING HANDBOOKS
AUTUMN
Click on the relevant year group/key stage booklet cover below to view their Autumn curriculum.
KEY STAGE 4 * →
*Coming soon
CURRICULUM BY FACULTY
ART & DESIGN
BUSINESS INDUSTRY FACULTY
► BIF Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
→ Yr 7 Computer Science (Autumn)
→ Yr 7 Computer Science (Spring)
→ Yr 7 Product Design (Board Games)
→ Yr 7 Product Design (Computer Aided Design/Manufacture)
YEAR 8:
→ Yr 8 Computer Science (Spring)
YEAR 9:
► BIF Curriculum Policies
COMMUNICATIONS
*Including Connect, Essential Vocabulary and Reading
► Communications Knowledge Organisers
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY:
→ Yr 7 - Essential Vocabulary (Nov 20)
→ Yr 8 - Essential Vocabulary (Nov 20)
READING:
ALL YEARS:
KS3:
→ Yr 7 - THE GRAVEYARD BOOK (by Neil Gaiman)
→ Yr 7 - ILLEGAL (by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin)
→ Yr 8 - NO BALLET SHOES IN SYRIA (by Catherine Bruton)
→ Yr 8 - ME MAM. ME DAD. ME. (by Malcolm Duffy )
→ Yr 9 - BILLY ELLIOT (by Melvin Burgess)
KS4:
→ Yr 10 - THE POET X (by Elizabeth Acevedo)
► Our Reading Knowledge Organisers, along with their relating videos and articles, are available HERE.
ENGLISH
► English Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
→ Yr 7 Change and Responsibility (Autumn A)
→ Yr 7 Local Heroes and Idols (Autumn B)
→ Yr 7 Novel Studies - Bone Talk (Spring A)
YEAR 8:
→ Yr 8 Conflict Poetry (Autumn A)
→ Yr 8 Persuasive Voices (Autumn B)
→ Yr 8 Novel Studies - Salt to the Sea (Spring)
YEAR 9:
KS4:
→ Yr 10 An Inspector Calls (Autumn A+B)
→ Yr 11 A Christmas Carol (Autumn A+B)
→ Yr 10 Power and Conflict (Spring A+B)
GEOGRAPHY
► Geography Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
→ Yr 7 Newcastle, Our City (Autumn A)
→ Yr 7 The People in Our City (Autumn B)
→ Yr 7 Opportunities and Challenges in the UK (Spring)
YEAR 8:
→ Yr 8 Ecosystems (Autumn)
→ Yr 8 No Planet B (Spring A)
→ Yr 8 Population (Spring B)
YEAR 9:
→ Yr 9 Tectonic Hazards (Autumn A)
→ Yr 9 Weather Hazards (Autumn B)
→ Yr 9 World Cities (Spring A)
KS4:
→ KS4 Living World (Autumn/Spring)
→ KS4 Economic World (Spring)
→ KS4 Physical Landscapes (Summer)
HISTORY
► History Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
→ Yr 7 Who are the British? (Autumn A)
→ Yr 7 The Norman Conquest, 1066 (Autumn B)
→ Yr 7 A Medieval Life (Spring A)
→ Yr 7 Silk Roads (Spring B)
YEAR 8:
→ Yr 8 Industrial Revolution - Transforming Britain (Autumn A)
→ Yr 8 Industrial Revolution - India/Democracy (Autumn B)
→ Yr 8 Transatlantic Slave Trade (Spring)
YEAR 9:
→ Yr 9 What Were The Causes of WW1 (Autumn A)
→ Yr 9 Nazi Persecution (Autumn B)
→ Yr 9 Why was the Cold War so dangerous? (Spring)
KS4:
→ KS4 Health and the People (Autumn)
→ KS4 Germany - Democracy to Dictatorship (Autumn)
→ KS4 Elizabeth I (Spring)
MATHS
► Maths Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
→ Yr 7 Learning Sequences 1-5 (Autumn)
→ Yr 7 Organisers 7-11 (Spring)
YEAR 8:
→ Yr 8 Learning Sequences 1-5 (Autumn)
→ Yr 8 Knowledge Organisers 7-10 (Spring)
YEAR 9:
→ Yr 9 Learning Sequences 1-6 (Autumn)
→ Yr 9 Learning Sequences 7-12 (Spring)
KS3:
KS4:
► AUTUMN:
Foundation:
→ Yr 10 F - Autumn Term (Sequences 1-7)
→ Yr 11 F - Autumn Term (Sequences 1-6)
Higher:
→ Yr 10 H - Autumn Term (Sequences 1-7)
→ Yr 11 H - Autumn Term (Sequences 1-6)
► SPRING:
Foundation:
→ Yr 10 F - Spring Term (Sequences 8-13)
→ Yr 11 F - Spring Term (Sequences 7-11)
Higher:
→ Yr 10 H - Spring Term (Sequences 7A-13A)
→ Yr 11 H - Spring Term (Sequences 7A -11)
MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
PE
► PE Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
YEAR 8:
YEAR 9:
KS4:
→ Yr 10 Trampolining
→ Yr 10 Table Tennis
→ Yr 11 Trampolining
→ Yr 11 Vaulting
→ Yr 11 Climbing
→ Yr 11 Table Tennis
→ Yr 11 Games Mix
→ Yr 11 Dance
→ Yr 11 Athletics
→ Yr 11 Strike and Fielding
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
► PD Knowledge Organisers
YEAR 7:
* Awaiting Documents
YEAR 8:
* Awaiting Documents
YEAR 9:
* Awaiting Documents
KS4:
* Awaiting Documents
LIFE READY
► Life Ready Faculty Handbook
SCIENCE
► Science Knowledge Organisers
WORKING SCIENTIFICALLY:
YEAR 7:
YEAR 8:
YEAR 9:
KS4:
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