UK Year 12 Courses

• AS Art and Design

  Term 1

  • Coursework projects & exam requirements
  • Specialisation : observation; interpretation; design (1 choice)
  • Research and presentation of an Art style or Movement
  • Experimentation, creativity and personal response
  • Examining style and techniques e.g. Realism, Expressionism etc.
  • Direct observation
  • Mixed media and collage
  • Historical, contemporary and cultural influences

   

  Term 2

  • Revision and assessment of personal projects
  • Documentation of artistic influence e.g. texts, photocopies etc.
  • Further experimentation and progression
  • Completion of final coursework project and supporting work (4xA1)
  • AS exam preparation (supporting work 2xA1 = 4 sides)

   

  Term 3

  • Completion of exam preparation
  • Presentation of mounting of all exam and coursework
  • AS final examination; 15 hours (split over 3 days)

   

• AS Biology

  Term 1

  • Biochemistry
  • Technical drawing, microscope work
  • Genetic control of protein structure and function
  • Nuclear Division
  • Enzymes

   

  Term 2

  • Transport in mammals
  • Respiratory system
  • Transport in plants
  • Disease and immunology
  • Ecology

     

• AS Business

  Term 1

  • Business Environment
  • Marketing
  • People in Organizations

   

  Term 2

  • Business Finance
  • Business Accounting

   

  Term 3

  • Operations Management
  • Information for Decision Making
  • Revision

   

• AS Chemistry

  Term 1

  • Theoretical chemistry
  • Atoms, moelcules and stoichiometry
  • Bonding and structure
  • States of matter
  • Physical chemistry
  • Chemical energetics
  • Reaction kinetics
  • Equilibria            
  • Electrochemistry
  • Organic chemistry I
  • Introduction to organic chemistry
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Halogen derivatives

   

  Term 2

  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Chemical periodicity
  • Group II
  • Group VII
  • Nitrogen and sulphur
  • Organic chemistry II
  • Alcohols               
  • Carbonyls compounds
  • Carboxylic acids and esters

   

  Term 3

  • Revision

   

• AS Economics

  Term 1

  • Basic Economic Ideas
  • The Price System
  • Government Intervention in the Price System

   

  Term 2

  • International Trade
  • Measurement in the Macroeconomy

   

  Term 3

  • Macroeconomic Problems
  • Macroeconomic Policies
  • Revision

   

• AS English Literature

  Term 1

  • "The Importance of Being Earnest"  by Oscar Wilde
  • "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

   

  Term 2

  • "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare
  • "Songs of Ourselves" Poetry anthology

   

  Term 3

  • Revision

   

• AS French

  Term 1

  • Les relations humaines
  • La vie rurale et la vie urbaine

   

  Term 2

  • Préparation du sujet oral
  • L'égalité des chances
  • La santé et le bien-être

   

  Term 3

  • Préparation du sujet oral
  • L'environnement
  • Révisions générales et préparation aux examens

   

• AS History

  Term 1

  • The Origins of the Cold War after World War Two
  • Soviet and American policies 1945-47
  • The Korean War
  • On the Arms Race
  • Vietnam
  • Latin America: revolution in Cuba
  • Détente and the ‘Second’ Cold War: 1963-8

   

  Term 2

  • The Arms Race 1945-91
  • The Crisis in Communism and the end of the Cold War
  • The end of the Cold War

   

  Term 3

  • The United Nations 1945-91
  • Revision

   

• AS Mechanic Maths

  Term 1

  • Differentiation
  • Vectors
  • Integration
  • Mechanics
  • Kinematics

   

• AS Pure Maths

  Term 1

  • Coordinate Geometry
  • Functions
  • Quadratics Binomial
  • Expansions

   

  Term 2

  • Sequences & Series
  • Differentiation
  • Trigonometry

   

  Term 3

  • Vectors
  • Integration
  • Radians
  • Revision

   

• AS Physics

  Term 1

  • Base units
  • Measurement techniques
  • Scalars and vectors
  • Motion, force and energy
  • Kinematics
  • Dynamics
  • Forces
  • Work, energy, power
  • Electrical charge
  • Current of electricity
  • DC circuits
  • Electric fields

   

  Term 2

  • Phases of matter
  • Deformation of solids
  • Nuclear physics
  • Waves
  • Superposition

   

  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).