Year 8 Curriculum and Knowledge Organisers

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The table below summarises what students will learn at each stage in the school year.

You can click on the headings for each subject to be redirected to the year specific area of that subjects SharePoint site.

Clicking on the names of individual units of work will redirect you to the relevant knowledge organiser.

	English	Maths	Science
^{Half term 1}	Poverty and Prejudice	Due to the nature of the way maths is taught, the knowledge organisers are collated in one document which, once opened, will direct you towards the relevant knowledge organisers for each half term. Y8 knowledge organisers	Health and Lifestyle Electricity and Magnetism
^{Half term 2}	Poverty and Prejudice		Periodic Table Biological processes Separation Techniques
^{Half term 3}	Voices		Separation Techniques (cont) Energy
^{Half term 4}	Voices		Ecosystems and Adaptations Metals and Acids
^{Half term 5}	Tragedy		Inheritance Motion and Pressure
^{Half term 6}	Tragedy		The Earth

	Art	Computer Science	Drama	DT and Food	French
^{Half term 1}	Keith Haring	Cybersecurity	C1: Issue Based Drama	DT and Food are taught on a rotation. Therefore, whilst students will cover the same content, the time at which this is done will differ. The knowledge organisers below will be useful throughout key stage 3. KS3 DT Knowledge Organisers KS3 Food Knowledge Organisers A specific knowledge organiser will be published to students via Satchel One for end of year written assessments.	Holidays
^{Half term 2}	Keith Haring	Binary	C2: Puppetry		Festivals and Food
^{Half term 3}	Fonts / Lettering	Physical Computing and Microbits	C3: Stage Combat (Shakespeare)		Free Time and Technology
^{Half term 4}	Landscape / perspective	Developing for the Web	C4: Commedia Dell'arte		Town and Routine
^{Half term 5}	Still Life	Careers in Computer Science	C5: Performing Arts - Musicals and Exploration of Art Forms		Sports and Health
^{Half term 6}	Still Life	Intro to Python	C6: Play Review - Extended Writing		Sports and Health

	Geography	History	Music	RE
^{Half term 1}	Tectonics	Fight for Power: Knowledge organiser 1 Knowledge organiser 2	Knowledge organiser for all unit below Understanding Hip Hop	Dharmic Faiths: Hinduism
^{Half term 2}	Tectonics		Hip Hop Composition	Dharmic Faiths: Buddhism
^{Half term 3}	Population	Votes for Women and the Industrial Revolution	Indian Raga	Dharmic Faiths: Buddhism Sikhism
^{Half term 4}		Edwardians and Slavery	Ukulele Ensemble	Dharmic Faiths: Buddhism Sikhism
^{Half term 5}			The Beatles (1960s)	Dharmic Faiths: Sikhism
^{Half term 5}	Rivers		The Beatles (1960s)	Dharmic Faiths: Sikhism
^{Half term 6}	Rivers	First World War	Tuned and Untuned Percussion	Ethical Dilemmas

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