In year 9 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.
Baseline and introduction to creative careers
Autumn term
• Introducing Python – developing skills in Python programming language.
• Digital graphics – design a digital graphic using Photoshop etc for a client.
Spring term
• Python Turtle – using Python to find solutions to challenges.
• Digital animation – developing an animation to advertise a new product coming to market.
Summer term
• Hardware and software – computer science focused unit introducing the difference between hardware and software.
• Digital video – design, shoot and edit a trailer for a new horror film.
Technology rotation
Product design – mobile phone holder: students will work with plastic to create personalised mobile phone holders.
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Food and nutrition – health and safety and an introduction to cultural foods and tastes along with key skills such as boiling, sautéeing and simmering.
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Textiles – creative textiles.
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Photography
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Graphic communication – mini skateboard design: students design and then apply effective design to a mini structure.
Autumn term
DNA scripted
Spring term
John Godber (playwright)
Summer term
Devising/stimulus
Autumn Term
Power. Core text: John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
Rationale: To explore the portrayal of race and segregation in literature. To explore the presentation of power in a range of texts and how a voice can portray ideas and attitudes.
Key knowledge:
Key vocabulary:
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Spring Term
Controversial issues. Core text: Dean Atta – Black Flamingo
Rationale: To explore how structure impacts writer’s intentions on character, and to promote the importance of the British Value of tolerance pertaining to identity and belonging.
Key knowledge:
Key vocabulary:
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Summer Term
Disasters and events. Core text: Power and Conflict poetry
Rationale: To explore the representation of power and conflict in literature, discovering links between context and text.
Key knowledge:
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Autumn term
Theme: Identity and culture
Talk about pocket money and helping at home
Spring term
Theme: identity and culture, current and future study and employment
Summer term
Theme: Identity and culture
Me, my family, and friends
Autumn term
Crime
• What is crime?
• Where does crime take place?
• Crime in Hucknall
• Crime solutions
• Heroin Trail
• Piracy
• Livchenko Mystery
Cold Environments
• What are Cold Environments?
• How have people adapted to cold environments?
• Opportunities in cold environments
• Challenges in cold environments
• Cold areas under threat
• Managing cold environments.
Spring term
Conflict
• Why do we look at conflict in geography?
• Causes of conflict
• Rwanda
• Blood diamonds
• Middle East
• Iraq
Summer term
Hazards
• Structure of the Earth
• Volcanoes
• Montserrat
• Earthquakes
• Nepal
• Iceland
Local fieldwork
Hucknall pedestrianisation
Autumn term
WW1
• What was the Alliance system?
• What was the Arms Race?
• Why did war break out?
• What was life like in the trenches?
• What was there a Christmas Truce?
• Who were conscientious objectors?
• What role did women have in the war?
• Why did war end?
• What was the Treaty of Versailles?
America in the 1920s and 30s
• Why did people migrate to the USA?
• Why did America have an economic boom?
• What was prohibition?
• Al Capone
• Why did prohibition fail?
• Why was the KKK powerful?
• The Wall Street Crash
Spring term
The Rise of the Dictators
• Creating a dictatorship
• Dictatorship vs democracy
• Communism and fascism
• The USSR
• Italy and Mussolini
• The Rise of Hitler
• Appeasement
• How democracy is lost
WW2
• Blame for WW2
• Dunkirk
• Battle of Britain
• The Blitz spirit
• The Home Front
• WW2 and Hollywood
• Dresden
• The Atomic Bomb
• Churchill
Summer term
The Holocaust
• Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany
• Roots of Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism over time
• Warsaw Ghetto
• Oskar Schindler
• The death camps
• Stories of the Holocaust
• Justice for the Holocaust
• Remembering the Holocaust
The Cold War
• The Origins of the Cold War
• Soviet expansion
• The Berlin Airlift
• The Hungarian uprising
• The Berlin Wall
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Vietnam War
Autumn term
Equations and angles
Spring term
Graphs, Pythagoras and trigonometry
Summer term
Probability
Autumn term
Ukulele
Pop music
Spring term
Reggae
Hooks and riffs
Summer term
DJ-ing and dance music
Song choice
Autumn term
Wellbeing and law and order
Spring term
Sexual relationships GCSE options (RE curriculum)
Summer term
Looking after myself and others human rights
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 |
| Dance | Handball |
| Handball | Boxercise |
| Boxercise | Trampolining |
| Netball | Table tennis |
| Rounders | Rounders |
| Athletics | Athletics |
| Fitness | Fitness |
| Football | Cricket |
| Tag rugby | Softball |
| Frisbee |
Exploring commercial photography through 3 specific skills:
Students will create 3 adverts: 1 drinks advert, 1 fragrance advert and 1 food advert.
Spring term
Multiculturalism
Summer term
Human rights
Autumn term
Spring term
Summer term
