UK Year 11 Courses

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

• Art and Design

  Term 1

  • Basic Art vocabulary
  • Research and presentation of an artist
  • Investigation and development of ideas
  • Personal vision and expression
  • Basic colour theory       
  • Experimentation with different media
  • Creating texture, pattern and collage
  • Art & Artists : personal influence

   

  Term 2

  • Documentation of artistic influence e.g. texts, photocopies etc.
  • Relating outside influence to personal ideas
  • Further experimentation with media not previously used
  • Completion of projects
  • IGCSE exam preparation (supporting work 3xA2)

   

  Term 3

  • Completion of exam preparation

   

• Biology

  Term 1

  • Variety of life
  • Cells
  • Circulation
  • Heart
  • Respiration
  • Digestion and absorption
  • Animal nutrition
  • Enzymes

   

  Term 2

  • Excretion and the kidney
  • Homeostasis
  • The nervous system
  • Movement
  • Human reproduction
  • Genetics
  • Plants
  • Environment

   

  Term 3

  • Biotechnology
  • Revision

   

• Chemistry

  Term 1

  • Matter
  • Elements, mixtures & compounds
  • Atomic structure and the periodic table
  • Bonding and structure
  • Stoichiometry
  • Chemical changes
  • Chemical reactions
  • Electrochemistry
  • Introduction to organic chemistry
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Alcohols and organic acids
  • Macromolecules

   

  Term 2

  • Acids, bases and salts
  • Metal extraction and chemical reactivity
  • Carbonates
  • Atmosphere and oceans
  • Sulphur

   

  Term 3

  • Revision

   

• Economics

  Term 1

  • The Basic Economic Problem
  • The Allocation of Resources
  • The Individual as Producer, Consumer and Borrower
  • The Private Firm as Producer and Employer

   

  Term 2

  • Economic Indicators
  • The Role of Government in an Economy

   

  Term 3

  • Developed and Developing Economies
  • International Aspects of Economics

   

• English Language

  Term 1

  • Introduction to Core Reading Skills
  • Writing to inform and analyse, develop reading skills
  • Imaginative writing, reading to understand how writers achieve effects

   

  Term 2

  • Reading and Directed Writing: writing a continuation of a story
  • Reading and Directed Writing: Writing a persuasive article
  • Reading and Directed Writing: Writing a formal report
  • Reading and Directed Writing: Writing a letter
  • Reading and Directed Writing: Writing a dialogue or conversation
  • Reading and Directed Writing: Writing a speech

   

  Term 3

  • Revision

   

• English Literature

  Term 1

  • "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
  • Keats' poetry
  • Imaginative writing, reading to understand how writers achieve effects
  • Assessment: Imaginary response from Macbeth. Writing from the viewpoint of a character in the play

   

  Term 2

  • Much Ado about Nothing" by William Shakespeare

   

  Term 3

  • Revision

   

• French

  Term 1

  • Les phrases négatives
  • Le conditionnel
  • Les possessifs
  • Le passé composé
  • L'imparfait          
  • Les pronoms "Y" et "EN"
  • Les verbes pronominaux au présent et au passé compose
  • Les tâches ménagères
  • La routine et les verbes pronominaux
  • Les vêtements
  • Les pièces de la maisons
  • Différents textes tirés de magazine
  • "Un billet pour le commissaire" de Régine Boutégège et Susanna Longo

   

  Term 2

  • Le passif
  • Le passé composé et l'imparfait
  • Le futur proche et le futur simple
  • Les adjectifs irréguliers
  • Les hypothèses
  • Les adverbes
  • Les pronoms relatifs
  • Les vacances
  • Préparation à l'épreuve oral du IGCSE

   

  Term 3

  • Le gérondif
  • Révisions des différents temps du passé-présent et futur
  • Textes divers

   

• History

  Term 1

  • The Peace Treaties of 1919-23
  • The League of Nations
  • The collapse of international order in the 1930s: the increasing militarism of Germany, Italy and Japan
  • The origins of the Cold War       
  • Occupation of Germany and the Berlin Blockade

   

  Term 2

  • How effectively did the USA contain the spread of communism?
  • America and events in Cuba, 1959-62;
  • American involvement in Vietnam
  • The main features of Tsarist rule and Russian society before the First World War
  • The 1905 revolution and its aftermath, attempts at reform
  • The First World War and its impact on the Russian people
  • The March revolution of 1917
  • How did the Bolsheviks gain power, and how did they consolidate their rule?
  • The Provisional Government and the Soviets
  • The Bolshevik seizure of power
  • The role of Lenin
  • The Kronstadt Rising

   

  Term 3

  • Two Source Skills
  • Revision

   

• Mathematics

  Term 1

  • Approximations & estimations
  • Algebra 1
  • Mensuration
  • Circle                
  • Geometry
  • Algebra 2
  • Algebraic fractions, indices, inequalities

   

  Term 2

  • Graphs
  • Trigonometry

   

  Term 3

  • Sets
  • Vectors and
  • Functions Matrices and Transformations
  • Transformations
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Revision

   

• Physics

  Term 1

  • Waves and sound
  • Mechanics
  • Matter and molecules
  • Forces and pressure
  • Motion and energy
  • Thermal physics       
  • Heat and energy

   

  Term 2

  • Electricity and magnetism
  • Electricity
  • Electromagnetic effects
  • Atomic physics
  • Electrons and atoms

   

  Term 3

  • Revision

   

• 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).