Year 7 Curriculum & Arrangements

Term will formally start on Monday September 9^th.

Year 7 sessions will be four hours a day, Monday to Wednesday with an option to stay to Sports Coaching with Sport Elite 2-4pm each day.

We will also be offering a variety of activities on Freedom Thursdays and Freaky Fridays that are themed sessions supported by staff and guided by the students who attend and respond to the stimuli offered.

It is hoped that the majority of parents will wish to sign their young people up for the  three four hour mornings, however, depending on demand, there may be the opportunity to join the team for just one or two subjects per day. Priority will be given to those wishing to attend all four hours.

The Sport Elite session will take place 2-4pm three times a week and will be open to all home educators to enjoy.

The cost of the classes will depend on the number of students enrolled in each.

We will be taking bookings throughout the summer holiday and will advise parents of the charge of the session before the term formally starts on Monday September 9th. If only one student has enrolled for a class, parents will be given the option to withdraw before the first session occurs.

We ask that parents commit to a minimum of six sessions , giving three weeks notice if they do not wish to renew their booking for the next group of six weeks.

Cancellation Policy

Where staff availability exists, one to one sessions can be rescheduled once per half term, all other classes must be paid in full.

TimeTable

Year 7 Sessions – Monday Tuesday Wednesday

9.15 am
Meet, greet and discuss days highlights

9.20 – 10.15
Art and Craft

10.15 – 10.30
Let off steam/chill

10.30 – 11.15
Maths

11.15 – 11.30
Snack, drink etc
(bring your own. Due to allergens, no nuts or members of the oranges family please – and that includes orange juice – sorry!)

11.30 – 12.15
Science

1215 – 12.30
Steam or Chill

12.30 – 1.15
English

1.15 – 1.30
Celebrate success

1.30 – 2pm
If you are staying for sports, you can join the staff and enjoy your packed lunch that you brought from home. Don’t forget to bring trainers, T-shirts, shorts/leggings to change into for the afternoon session.

2pm – 4pm
Sport activities with Sports Elite.

Curriculum

The Core Maths Skills Year 7 Autumn Term

• Exploring Sequences, generating nth term
• Various investigations that lead to outcomes that are sequential
• Working with algebraic notation, formulas and forming expressions, solving simple equations and apply skills to real life problems. Including exploring rectangles of a fixed area,  mobile phone tariffs, break even points,  stock control, use of spreadsheets to interrogate pattern.
• Equality ad equivalence.
• Working with number.
• Constructions using compasses and protractors. Creating gift boxes.
• Working with scale.
• Using two way tables, timetables, costing grids, interrogating and interpreting data.

Year 7 Science Projects Autumn Term 2024

• Ecosystems, niches, food webs, population.
• Variation and classification in the Animal Kingdom.
• States of matter and chemical reaction.
• The Solar System and Space travel.
• Electric circuits and computer control.

Year 7 English Topics

• Explore the Structure of autobiographical and biographical text. Interview people of interest, capture data, write biography of person student knows and admires. Create a back story for an avatar.  
• Explore how news is selected, structured and presented to appeal to its target audiences and how language is used to present a point of view.
• Create magazine article on person or topic of interest and make information board.
• Work collaboratively to produce annotated time lines of notable world events 2012-2024
• Explore 19^th and 20^th multicultural poetry that discusses identity.
• Explore Biographies selected from  Greta’s Story, When Hilte stole Pink Rabbit, Malala’s magic pencil,, The Missing, Diary of Anne Frank, the story of Marie Curie,  My family and other animals, Counting the Stars, Six dots, Little people Big dreams.
• SPAG embedded as appropriate.

Year 7 Humanities Topics to be selected from.

Investigations  selected from

• Population and Migration Immigration  in UK 1250- 2024.
• The Rise and fall of the British Empire.
• Slavery and Servitude The fight for equality.
• Map skills.
• Rivers.

Year 7 Art and Craft to be selected from

• Still life compositions harness the application of skills in shading tone, colour, pattern, texture.
• The life and work of Elizabeth Berrier, wire sculptures and plaster of Paris wrap.
• Collage, using photographs, newspaper and magazine cuttings, fabrics, natural materials etc.
• The work of Hundrtwasser  and constructing 2D and 3D cityscapes of Capital cities of the world.
• Printing, Indian block, potato prints, linoprints, silk screen.
• Group wall display on Random Acts of Kindness and Harvest thanksgiving.
• Developing understanding of proportion and grid method.

Sport

Selected activities from Cricket, Archery, Athletics, Football skills, Jiu jitsu , Kick boxing, racquet skills, skipping skills, under the watchful and skilled mentorship of Elite Sports.