In year 7 students have 25 lessons a week.
Below is a general overview of the topics students are taught throughout the year in each subject.
For a more in depth outline of each subject please click on the link (in each drop down) to view the full subject page.
If you would like to speak to us about any aspect of our curriculum please get in touch.
Autumn term
Baseline and introduction to ‘Horrible histories in art’
Spring term
‘Horrible histories in art’ continued
Summer term
‘ Horrible histories in art’ continued
Autumn term
• All about me – introducing the office suite
• E-safety – early guidance on online safety
Spring term
• PPT game design – designing a maze-style game in PowerPoint.
• Welcome to Holgate – shooting and editing a welcome video for new year 7s.
Summer term
• Virtual pet – students design and program a virtual pet using Scratch
Technology rotation
Product design – key ring fob, students will explore design and making using cutting techniques.
Visit our product design page for more information
Food and nutrition – health and safety and good food plate. Various recipes explored including savoury scones and pleasing pasta.
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Photography
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Graphic communication – logo design, students will explore design, development and processes. What makes a good design? What elements do designer use to sell us stuff?
Autumn term
Drama skills/breadwinner script
Spring term
Native American Indians (exploratory)
Summer term
Greek theatre (historical)
Autumn term
Islands and isolation. Core text: William Shakespeare – The Tempest
Rationale: To focus on acceptance and belonging, exploring a range of cultures and how these can affect everyday life.
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Spring Term
Children in Literature. Core text: Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
Rationale: To explore how writers depict children in literature, focusing on rags to riches. Exploration of 19th Century literature.
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Summer Term
Love and Relationships. Core text: Marcus Sedgwick – Midwinterblood
Rationale: To explore the depiction of distinct types of love and relationships over time: family, friendship, societal, cultural and romantic.
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Autumn term
Theme: identity and culture
Spring term
Themes: identity and culture, current and future study and employment
Summer term
Theme: local, national, international and global areas of interest
Autumn term
What is Geography?
• What is geography?
• What are the three types of geography?
• Journey around the world
• Map Skills
Brilliant Britain
• What is the UK like?
• Interpreting landscapes
• Erosion and weathering
• Population change
• Immigration
Spring term
Wild Weather
• What is weather and climate?
• Water cycle
• Climate graphs
• Storms
• Extreme weather
Amazing Africa
• Celebrate Africa as a continent
• Development Gap
• Tourism
• Lagos
• Drought
• Piracy
• Desertification
Summer term
Geography of my stuff
• Globalisation
• Transnational corporations
• Geography of chocolate
• Food miles
• Climate change
Fieldwork on microclimates around school.
Autumn term
The Romans
• How did the Romans change Britain?
• How significant were the Romans to Britain?
• Why did Boudicca’s revolt fail?
• What do sources reveal about the Roman Empire?
• Why was there a murder in Rome?
Vikings and Anglo Saxons
• Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
• What was life in Anglo-Saxon Britain like?
• Was Alfred ‘Great’?
• Who was Aetheflaed?
• Saxon Burials
• Who were the Vikings?
• Viking home life
• Were the Vikings the ‘bad boys’ of history
Spring term
The Norman Conquest
• Raiders and Invaders
• What was buried at Sutton Hoo?
• Why was 1066 a year of crisis?
• The Battle of Stamford Bridge and Gate Fulford
• The Battle of Hastings
• William’s problems
• Why did William harry the North?
• The feudal system
• Motte and Bailey Castles
• Impact of Norman rule
Medieval Monarchs
• Mathilda
• Murder of Becket
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• King John
• Magna Carta
• The Black Death
• The Peasants Revolt
• Richard III
Summer term
The Crusades
• Golden age of Islam
• Byzantine Empire
• Causes of the first Crusade
• Crusader control of the Holy Land
• Muslim response to the first Crusade
• Saladin
• Richard the Lion Heart
Silk roads and African Kingdoms
• What were the Silk Roads?
• What can objects tell us about the Silk Roads?
• What was traded?
• Religion
• Conquest
• African Kingdoms introduction
• The Kingdom of Mali
• Who was Mansa Musa?
Autumn term
Algebraic thinking, place value and proportion
Spring term
Application of number, directed number and fractional thinking
Summer term
Lines and angles, reasoning with number
Autumn term
Find your voice 1
Keyboard skills
Spring term
Gota rhythm-African drumming
Keyboard skills 2
Summer term
Film music
Find your voice 2
Autumn term
All about me and careers
Spring term
Financial education/ changing faces
Summer term
Bullying and safety – antiracism – mental health
Students study the same activities in years 7 to 9 as this gives them the opportunity to show a greater level of progression in their tactical awareness, knowledge of the rules and skill level in each of the activities.
| Girls | Boys |
| Trampolining | Football |
| Table tennis | Rugby |
| Tag rugby | Handball |
| Handball | Boxercise |
| Boxercise | Trampolining |
| Netball | Table tennis |
| Rounders | Rounders |
| Athletics | Athletics |
| Fitness | Fitness |
| Football | Cricket |
| Softball | |
| Frisbee |
Autumn term – philosophy of religion
Spring term – signs and symbols/pilgrimages
Summer term anti-racism
Autumn term
Spring term
Summer term
