UK Year 9 / US Grade 8 Courses

Based on their academic record, students choose a minimum of five courses from the list below.

• Art

  Term 1

  • Basic Art & Design vocabulary
  • Exploring line, tone and texture
  • Basic form and structure : direct observation
  • Sketching, rough layouts and composition
  • Developing an idea or design
  • Using colour
  • Experimentation with different materials
  • School Christmas card design

   

  Term 2

  • Looking at different Artists and styles
  • Examining and reproducing an image in a chosen style
  • Creative use of materials : mixed media and collage
  • Interpretation; using your imagination
  • Graphic Design e.g. CD, film, computer game, book, etc.

   

  Term 3

  • Still life : natural objects / outside observation
  • Presentation and mounting of coursework
  • Personal object

   

• English

  Term 1

  • Narrative Forms
  • Types of Sentence Constructions
  • Poetic Forms

   

  Term 2

  • Informational Forms
  • Use of IT: Internet

   

  Term 3

  • Continuation of Informational Forms
  • Use of IT: Publication Software

   

• Geography

  Term 1

  • The World of Geography
  • The Five Themes of Geography
  • Earth's Physical Geography
  • Climate and Weather
  • How Climate Affects Vegetation

   

  Term 2

  • Earth's Human Geography
  • Population
  • Migration
  • Economic Systems
  • Political Systems
  • Understanding Culture
  • Culture and Society
  • Cultural Change

   

  Term 3

  • Interacting With Our Environment
  • Natural Resources
  • Land Use
  • People's Effect on the Environment

   

• History

  Term 1

  • What is history?
  • The Plains Indians
  • Medieval Europe
  • Medieval Japan

   

  Term 2

  • The Renaissance

   

  Term 3

  • The Reformation
  • Christianity from Europe to other parts of the world

   

• Integrated Science

  Term 1

  • States of matter
  • Elements, mixtures & compounds
  • Atomic structure
  • The periodic table
  • The periodic table
  • Groups of metals
  • Groups of non-metals
  • Structure and bonding
  • Covalent bonding
  • Metals and structure

   

  Term 2

  • Mechanics
  • Heat
  • Waves

   

  Term 3

  • Cell Histology
  • Cell Membranes
  • Transport across cell membranes
  • Kidneys
  • Nervous System
  • Respiration
  • Photosynthesis

   

• French

  Can be studied at all levels – beginner, intermediate, advanced

• German

  Can be studied at all levels – beginner, intermediate, advanced

• Italian

  Can be studied at all levels – beginner, intermediate, advanced

• Spanish

  Can be studied at all levels – beginner, intermediate, advanced

• PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education)

  All students follow one period per week.

• Sports

  All students follow sports classes (variety of activities).