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Year 9 Curriculum and Knowledge Organisers

This page is currently under construction. 

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

Power of Language

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.

Y9 knowledge organisers:

Higher - Set 1 and 2

Foundation - Set 3 and 4

Year 9 Science is taught in a rotation of the 3 Science disciplines.  Each rotation is a 9 week block.  The knowledge organisers for all of the sciences have been collated into the booklets below.  Each has a hyperlinked index of topics.

Biology Knowledge Organisers

Chemistry Knowledge Organisers

Physics Knowledge Organisers

 

Half term 2
Half term 3 Conflict
Half term 4
Half term 5 Supernatural
Half term 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Drama DT and Food French
Half term 1

Skulls

Crime and Punishment

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.

Family, Friends and Relationships
Half term 2 Theatre in Education Work
Half term 3

Natural forms

Blood Brothers Music
Half term 4 Stimulus and Frantic Assembly Food, The Environment, Changing the World
Half term 5

Pop art

Play Review

The French Speaking World:

Knowledge organiser 1

Knowledge organiser 2

Half term 6 Sheffield artists Macbeth

 

  Geography History Music Personal Development RE
Half term 1

Frozen Planet 1: Glacial Landscapes

Peace to War (inc. Rise of the Nazis and WW2):

Impact of WW1 and Treaty of Versailles

Nazi Aims, Failure and Success

Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain

Knowledge organiser for all unit below

The Blues Song Composition

  GCSE: Peace and Conflict
Half term 2 Frozen Planet 2: Antarctica 12 Bar Blues Composition  

GCSE:

Peace and Conflict

Christian Beliefs

Half term 3 Unequal World Why Hitler was Defeated Film Music   GCSE: Christian Beliefs
Half term 4 Global Issues: Fast Fashion Holocaust Song Writing  
Half term 5 Global Issues: Climate Emergency

Medicine:

Medieval medicine c1250-1500

Renaissance England c1500-1700

Guitar and Ukulele   GCSE: Crime and Punishment
 
GCSE: The Challenge of Resource Management
Half term 6 Soundtrap, Composing to a Brief