UK Year 12 Courses

• A2 Art and Design

  Term 1

  • Coursework projects & related study
  • Research, comparison and presentation of 2 artists
  • Sketchbook : direct observation, personal recordings, annotated drawings, etc.
  • Continuation and further experimentation with processes, media and techniques

   

  Term 2

  • Revision and assessment of personal project & supporting portfolio
  • Continuation of personal related projects
  • Exhibition and studio visits

   

  Term 3

  • Completion of main coursework project & supporting portfolio (10xA1)
  • Final presentation; Personal project

   

• A2 Biology

  Term 1

  • Biodiversity
  • Crop Plants
  • Gene technology & biotechnology
  • Human Reproduction
  • Homeostasis
  • Kidneys            
  • Plant hormones
  • Nervous coordination
  • Population size
  • Natural selection; evolution: classification

   

  Term 2

  • Energy and respiration
  • Meiosis, genetics and gene control
  • Photosynthesis

   

  Term 3

  • Revision skills and practice

   

• A2 Business

  Term 1

  • Business Environment
  • Marketing
  • People in Organizations

   

  Term 2

  • Business Finance
  • Business Accounting

   

  Term 3

  • Operations Management
  • Information for Decision Making

   

• A2 Chemistry

  Term 1

  • Chemical energetic
  • Electrochemistry
  • Equilibria
  • Kinetics
  • Arenes
  • Phenols
  • Carboxylic acids and derivatives
  • Nitrogen compounds
  • Polymers

   

  Term 2

  • Group IV
  • Group II and transition elements
  • The chemistry of life
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Materials and design

   

  Term 3

  • Revision skills and practice

   

• A2 Economics

  Term 1

  • Economic Efficiency
  • The Price System and Theory of the Firm
  • Government Intervention in the Price System

   

  Term 2

  • International Trade
  • Theory and Measurement in the Macroeconomy

   

  Term 3

  • Macroeconomic Problems
  • Macroeconomic Policies

   

• A2 English Literature

  Term 1

  • "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare

   

  Term 2

  • "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens

   

  Term 3

  • Revision skills and practice

   

• A2 French

  Term 1

  • "Candide"de Voltaire
  • Les relations humaines
  • La vie rurale et la vie urbaine

   

  Term 2

  • Boule de suif et autres récits de guerre”, de Guy de Maupassant
  • Preparation du sujet oral
  • La santé et le bien-être
  • L'égalité des chances

   

  Term 3

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

   

• A2 History

  Term 1

  • The Russian Revolution
  • Totalitarianism between the Wars, 1919-39

   

  Term 2

  • Totalitarianism Continued...

   

  Term 3

  • New Imperialism
  • Revision skills and practice

   

• A2 Pure Maths

  Term 1

  • Algebra 1
  • Algebra 2
  • Trigonometry
  • Logarithms and exponentials

   

  Term 2

  • Numerical solution of equations
  • Differentiation 1
  • Vectors 1
  • Differentiation 2
  • Vectors 2

   

  Term 3

  • Integration
  • Differential equations
  • Complex numbers

   

• A2 Math – Statistics

  Term 1

  • Representation of Data
  • Measures of Location
  • Measures of Spread

   

  Term 2

  • Probability
  • Permutations & Combinations
  • Probability Distributions
  • The Binomial Distribution

   

  Term 3

  • Expectation & Variance of a random variable
  • The Normal Distribution

   

• A2 Physics

  Term 1

  • Newtonian mechanics
  • Matter
  • Oscillations
  • Electricity and Magnetism

   

  Term 2

  • Modern Physics
  • Gathering and communicating information

   

  Term 3

  • Revision skills and practice

   

• 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).