Super-Curriculum Tasks Year 9

Super-Curriculum

At Roundwood Park School we want to encourage you all to become confident and assured learners, or scholars perhaps. Learning does not just happen in the classroom. If you are to achieve mastery in any subject or you want to follow up a passion that you have, you will need to go beyond the activities in the lesson time. We have developed this booklet of super-curriculum tasks so that you have many ideas of what to do.

Completing these tasks will help you to develop many Aspire habits. You will become a more resilient, ambitious and independent learner. Developing these habits will help you to mature and become ready for study at GCSE and for lifelong learning in the future.

Most importantly, you will also have lots of fun along the way. This booklet is filled with exciting things to do, read and find in your own time. Some tasks may involve your whole family. You may even discover things that your teachers do not know, so be sure to share what you learn when you are back in school! When you have completed tasks in a given subject, please tell your teachers.

Good luck, and have fun.

Mrs Martin

Scholars Coordinator

CONTENTS

Art...... 4

Computing ...... 5

Design Technology...... 6

Drama ...... 7

English ...... 8

Geography ...... 9

History ...... 11

Maths ...... 12

Modern Foreign Languages ...... 13

French ...... 13

German ...... 14

Spanish……………………………………………………………….. 15

Music ………………………………………………………………………… 16

Physical Education ...... 17

Philosophy & Religion Education ...... 18

Science ...... 19

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Art

Read Do Find Create a sketchbook of Find an activity or Read an article about visits to exhibition, event to take part in at an exhibition at the museums. Include a the V&A Young People. V&A museum series of drawings of London what you see

Read about a famous Create a stop frame Find out about different animator and their animation to describe forms of animation and work. an event in history. what is available to you Eg Tim Burton, Walt with the equipment you Disney, Nick Parks, have. Read about graffiti art. Create your own ‘tag’ Research the Write about the rules, Produce a piece of techniques of spraycan etiquette and opinions graffiti art which makes art and of this type of art. a statement in the experiment/perfect Copy some of the same way as the work them examples of graffiti you have looked at work in the books and explain their meaning Read ‘Through Artists’ Produce a piece of art Research ‘war artists’ Eyes – War and conflict work which reflects an from the 20th C. event in the news, in Find an example of the same way as a work which you think photo journalist or war describes the events artist does. well. Write a description and analysis

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Computing

Read Do Find Coding Club Python https://www.khanacad Find out about the Basics Level 3 emy.org ethics of the https://studio.code.org development of /courses artificial intelligence. https://www.codewars. Will robots take over? com/ The Soul of a New https://codecombat.c Find reasons for and Machine by Tracy om/ against driverless cars. Kidder https://www.codemoji. What are your com/ thoughts? https://thimble.mozilla. org/en-GB/ Read ‘Super https://www.tynker.co Find an online lecture Intelligence’ by Nick m/ to watch: Bostrom https://www.codemonk https://academicearth. ey.com org/computer-science/ ‘Code’ by Charles https://blockly- Find three TED talks. Petzold games.appspot.com/ https://www.codingam e.com/start

Subscribe to “Hello Get a raspberry pi or Find resources to teach World” magazine (it’s Arduino and build your a new computing free) own system concept to your class.

Read ‘Steve Jobs’ by Visit The Science Find out about the first Walter Isaacson Museum Information history of computing. Gallery Complete a research project of the key moments.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Design Technology

Read Do Find

Read articles on the MoDA MoDA (The Museum of Pick an object and discover website. Domestic Design & the stories behind it write a Architecture) is part of the report about it Middlesex University and is an accessible research collection.

Read the MBDA website Write the out three things to Find out the types of jobs remember about MBDA in and qualifications needed to Stevenage work at MBDA in Stevenage

Read the TRENT PARK MUSEUM Visit TRENT PARK MUSEUM What were they listening for website at Trent Park? Write a diary.

Read articles about electric Visit the Mark Hall Cycle Find out how the bicycle has bikes, discuss advantages and Museum. developed over the years, disadvantages. create an infographic timeline

Read about your favourite Kahoot – Find and Play Pick a designer that you like designer and do further https://create.kahoot.it/details/ and do further research. research. designers-the-work-of- others/36f759c7-25ee-48c3- b36d-e1cbff52bcad

Read the design Ventura Visit The Design Museum Find out what the Design website London Ventura project is about. Find out and read what the Visit The Victoria and Albert Pick a V & A DesignLab V&A’s DesignLab is all about Museum project and work through it.

Research current food trends by Look up and try technical Find out about jobs in food using Good Food Magazine or challenges from the Great production farming, food the internet. British Bake off. research and nutrition. Read about a local chef, how Visit the farmers market in Speak to family and find out did they train? Harpenden. how food/trends equipment and dietary advice have changed. Read one of Jamie Oliver’s Interview a friend or family Find out from an older recipe books. What style of member about their favourite member of the family what food does he cook? foods. dishes they cooked when they were at school.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Drama Read Do Find Complete the design Research statistics on Download the full script laminates card within UK knife crime of Last Resort from the your lesson without VLE being asked.

Read the theatre Design the sound or VLE watch previous section from the Metro, lighting, rehearse and performance videos evening standard or a operate it for one of from your current work. broadsheet newspaper your pieces. and see if your parents will book to see one of the shows currently in or around London

Find 5 careers in the Read 3 case studies of Partake in the year 9 Performing Arts industry people involved in extra-curricular project that you would be knife crime or gang as either a performer, interested in related incidents. technical support or researching further. Use front of house. Unifrog if available.

Borrow Blood Brothers by Willy Russell from the Run extra rehearsals in Either one of the plays drama office with your your own time with your we are studying or a teacher’s permission group where you take play you are studying and read the whole to director role. and either watch it live play script. or search for it on Youtube or Digital Theatre plus. Borrow and read the script of Game Over by Help out in one of the Research the Breck Mark Wheeller and get drama clubs being run Foundation and find involved in the in school out what production of it.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: English

Read Do Find Read ‘The Grapes of Watch ‘Westside Story’ Find the story of a real-life Wrath’ or any other novel and work out why we’ve migrant worker in 1930s by Steinbeck. asked you to! America.

Write a travel guide to a Find a range of travel Read a Bill Bryson book. place you’ve been. adverts across time and think about how they’ve changed. Read a 19th century Write a description of a Find and watch novel. place you’d like to visit. documentary about travel. Read a bildungsroman. Interview an adult you Research a 19th century. know about their experience of growing up. Read ‘Shakespeare on Toast’ by Ben Crystal Watch these TED Talks: Find another TED talk. https://www.ted.com/talk s/harrison_scott_key_the_ american_dream_value_ menu https://www.ted.com/talk s/stephen_burt_why_peo ple_need_poetry

https://www.ted.com/talk s/ann_morgan_my_year_r eading_a_book_from_ev ery_country_in_the_world https://www.ted.com/talk s/mac_barnett_why_a_g ood_book_is_a_secret_do or/up- next?referrer=playlist- the_power_of_fiction_1 Choose one of the poets Write your own TED talk. Find a painting and write from the anthology and a description based on it. read some of their other work.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Geography Read Do Find

Tectonics - Earthquakes & Watch: Pompeii, 2014 Use BBC Bitesize to find out Volcanoes more about Tectonics Dante's Peak (1997) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools Kids National Geographic – NG /gcsebitesize/science/aqa_pre Kids Junior Adventures Blogs 2012 Ice Age, Watch Professor Iain Stewart’s documentary ‘How _2011/oils/changesrev2.shtml www.natgeokids.com the Earth Made Us, Fire (2010)’. USGS – GIS Find out what live Running Wild, by Michael Watch: The Impossible, 2012, Naomi Watts/Ewan McGregor earthquakes are happening Morpurgo using real-time data and their ● Visit: the Volcanoes exhibition at London’s Science museum magnitude. Is there a Horrible Geography -Earth- where you can see the heat suits and field equipment used by correlation? Shattering Earthquakes volcanologists and casts of victims from the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79 Write an instruction manual for somebody in an Visit the earthquake simulator at the Natural History Museum in earthquake zone detailing London. what to do in the event of a quake. What advice would you Write: Write a short story about your journey to the give. centre of the earth. Try to include all of the different layers and characteristics OR write an acrostic poem about a Volcano. Try to include as many features and characteristics as you can i.e. lava bombs.

Glaciation & Coasts Watch: BBC Coast series Investigate what it is like to live with erosion at the Notes from a small island by Visit: Any coastline! See if you can see how people have used the Holderness Coast. Bill Bryson land along the coast. Is it completely natural? Are there facilities https://esriukeducation.maps. to attract tourists? Are there management strategies to protect arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/in Horrible Geography - Cracking the coast from erosion? dex.html?appid=760af30c37a Coasts (22 May 2006) 245acbd546cf42c7ec0cb Write: Write a letter to Holderness Council recommending what types of defences they should put in place at Holderness.

Development Watch: The Hunger Games Watch Hans Rosling’s video on the relationship between life Why the Whales came, by Watch: Slumdog Millionaire expectancy and income. Michael Morpurgo http://www.bing.com/videos/ Watch: Make Poverty History search?q=development+gap+ The Hunger Games series by minder+hans+rosling&&view= Suzanne Collins Watch: TED: Lisa Kristine Modern Slavery detail&mid=6D516A060C791B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLzj8Oqx7ow 543DA56D516A060C791B543 DA5&FORM=VRDGAR Visit: London Dockland. Learn about the Port of London and its

role as a major trading port during the British Empire at the Then use the Gap Minder London Docklands Museum. website to research your own development indicators. Write: Write a diary entry for somebody your age in a LIC. Think about how their life would differ to yours http://www.gapminder.org and try to consider how they might feel about their life.

China Watch: Supersized Earth – Episode 2 Bridge Building Choose one animal that is threatened by China’s Travel Through China, Come on Mulan (1998) development. Create a poster a journey of discovery by Lynn to support a campaign to Huggins-Cooper Visit: China Town, V&A South Asia, China protect it. You could include how it is threatened, where Chinese Focus, Changing China, Write: Create a leaflet aimed at tourists visiting China. It could (location map) & what you by Marta Block include basic information about currency, language, transport. want people and the You could recommend two places to visit in China & explain why government to do to help. they are interesting sites to see

Weather & Climate Watch: The Perfect Storm (2000) Use the storymap to investigate Typhoon Haiyan Horrible Geography – Stormy Visit: Visit London’s Science Museum to find out more about how and make notes on the Weather weather is monitored and the science behind our weather terrible disaster. https://notredamecobham.ma A Bear Grylls Adventure 1: The Write: A depression system is coming in from the Atlantic ps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/i Blizzard Challenge: by Bear and moving East over the British Isles. Write a weather ndex.html?appid=bba35e41b8 Grylls forecast for the next 24 hours outlining what the weather da423498ae3bf461e161c8 will be like.

Ecosystems Watch: Ecosystems class clips, BBC Research and create fact files for 5 of the world’s main Planet Habitats, Louise & http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/ztgw2hv/resources/1 biomes Richard Spilsbury Watch: BBC Human Planet – Jungles. How to plants adapt to living Horrible Geography: Bloomin’ in deserts/rainforests/polar Rainforest Watch: Planet Earth, Jungles regions. What features do they have to ensure their Watch: Avatar (2009) success? Name the plants, label and annotate their Watch: Madagascar (2005) features using a diagram

Watch: Planet Earth – Deserts, Mountains, From Pole to Pole.

Watch: Go Jetters Amazon Rainforest

Visit: Epping Forest;Kew Gardens; Heartwood Forest; Chiltern AONB; Lee Valley Regional Park; Ashridge;ZSL London Zoo; ZSL Whipsnade; Rainham Marshes; The Eden project

Write: First watch this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zpmb4wx Now imagine you are a member of The Korowai tribe live in a remote region of the hot and humid West Papuan rainforest. Write about a day in your life.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: History

Read Do Find Read about WW1: Watch this German film A person who remembers https://www.bbc.com/timeli Berlin 36 which tells the fate of Jewish living during WW2 or the nes/zqbhn39, track and field athlete Gretel Cold War. Ask them what 5 https://www.bbc.co.uk/teac Bergmann in the 1936 Summer key things they can h/why-was-the-first-day-of- Olympics remember about living the-somme-such-a- during that time disaster/zn3hwty,

Read about WW2: Produce a 10-question quiz on the Find time to visit this cold https://www.bbc.com/timeli topics studied this year that you can war bunker nes/zxq4kqt, deliver at the beginning or end of https://www.bbc.co.uk/teac your history lessons. https://secretnuclearbunker h/the-blitz-what-would-you- .com ‘ have-done-when-the-bombs- fell/zn6gpg8

Read about the atomic bomb: https://www.bbc.com/timeli nes/zpfjmnb

Read about the Holocaust: Lead a starter in one of your history Find time to visit Churchill’s https://www.bbc.com/timeli lessons. war rooms in London nes/z86nfg8 https://www.iwm.org.uk/vis its/churchill-war-rooms

Read about how 1 man saved Watch any of the documentaries on Find time to visit the IWM in 669 Jewish lives: Netflix about Hitler and the Nazis (see London and see their WW1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/teac the corridor display board for ideas). and Holocaust exhibitions h/how-did-one-englishman- save-669-children-from-the- https://www.iwm.org.uk/vis holocaust/zd436v4 its/iwm-london

Read about Hitler: Complete a research project from Find time to visit Dover https://www.bbc.com/timeli https://meanwhileelsewhereinhistory castle; the site where the nes/zsmm6sg .wordpress.com/ Dunkirk evacuation was run from

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Maths

Read Do Find

“The number devil” by Hans Attend Pi Club Find the answer: Magnus Ezenberger Fermi Paradox (large numbers): https://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc

“Can you solve my problems?” Attend Chess Club Find the answer: by Alex Bellos Two Jugs Problem (as seen in Die Hard!): http://www.transum.org/Softw are/Investigations/jugs.asp “Entertaining Mathematical Try a Puzzle or Problem: Find the answer: Puzzles” by Martin Gardner https://nrich.maths.org/sec Monty Hall problem: ondary https://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=4Lb-6rxZxx0

Intermediate Maths Challenge Trigonometry: “The Penguin book of curious Papers: https://www.youtube.com/wa and interesting puzzles” by http://www.ukmt- tch?v=77XAdyWz5SM David Wells resources.org.uk/index-tr.html

‘How Not to Be Wrong The Visit the Royal Observatory Listen to the podcast on Hidden Maths of Everyday Life’ at Greenwich to find out mathematics – The Math By Jordan Ellenburg about time and travel. Factor http://mathsfactor.uark.edu/

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: French Read Do Find Read this poem in French Write your own version of the poem. Find another poem French to https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/d- Notice how much of it is in the read. jeuner-du-matin/ perfect tense Search for the French artist Sara’h on Write and record a short song in Find out about francophone youtube. Read the lyrics for her French French. music. Listen to some of the version of popular English language songs popular artists. Lyrics training is good website for this. Read/listen to this story in French Think of 5 more excuses for having Find 10 examples of the perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n- not done your homewprk. tense from the story. Try to use hqBsXVfAE them in your own sentences.

Read a weather forecast in French: Write a weather diary in French. A French TV weather bulletin for http://www.meteofrance.com/previsions- today meteo-france/bulletin-france Read a film review in French from this Watch a film of your choice but with Find a French film to watch. You website the French audio. could turn the English subtitles on https://www.senscritique.com/films to help you. Read a French Haiku from this website Write your own Haiku in French Find out 10 facts about a French http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/french poet of your choice. haiku.html

Read a book in French. Choose one that you Pretend you are one of the Find a novel that was written in have already read in English e.g. Hunger characters and write about yourself French (not translated) & read it. Games in French The instructions for your phone in French Change the language setting for Siri, Find a list of technology terms in Alexa or Google and have a French. Are they like English? conversation with your virtual friend by asking them questions in French. Read an article form this website Write a list of new vocabulary and Search for a video clip on a topic https://www.1jour1actu.com/ try to use some of it in your next that interests you home learning task. https://www.1jour1actu.com/inf os-animees/ Read up on some French grammar Make a video to learn a grammar Find a Youtube clip on a new https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study- point that you have learnt in class. grammar point. guides/french/french-i

Read about a French speaking country, other Make a short PP presentation on a Find out about DOMS & TOMS than France. francophone country for your class

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: German Read Do Find Read the news and tell Take some tutorials and Find out about the world your class what you’ve play games on in German using read https://www.german- https://www.wasistwas. http://news4kids.de/ games.net/ de/die-grosse- wissenswelt.html

Read about career Follow instructions in Find your prefect holiday options with German German to make on https://www.tui.com/ http://www.ogn.ox.ac.uk something special Make sure you do all /language-careers https://www.geo.de/ your searching in geolino/basteln German and show your teacher a screen shot of your make-believe holiday and all the facilities. Read about the brothers Watch the film Anton und Find out about all of the Grimm and read one of Pünktchen festivals in Germany and the fairy tales in German. the traditions attached Compare the English and to them. German version https://www.grimmstories. com/language.php?grim m=015&l=en&r=de

Practise your reading skills Put your phone settings Find out about German https://german.net/readi into German to learn some text talk via https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german- ng/ German phone language internet-slang/

Find a successful way to Read Emil und die Watch Coffee break teach your family some Detektive German German vocabulary. Be https://radiolingua.com/ta creative! g/cbg-season-1/

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Spanish

Read Do Find Create a poster with a Find a biography of a Find a news article fun Spanish word for famous Spanish person about something each letter of the (actor, sports person, happening in Spain. Spanish alphabet singer) and learn about them Look at the weather Write out a basic Find out how many report in Spain and see conversation dialogue Spanish speaking how it differs from our between yourself and a countries there are in weather on the same famous Spanish person. South America. Make day What questions would a list of them. you ask them? Find a simple poem or Create a map of Spain Find a fun Spanish children’s story online. and plot the following: learning or rhyming Read it and see how 8 key cities song on You Tube. much you can 2 mountain ranges Watch it and recite the understand. 2 border countries song to us in MFL! 3 well known monuments Look up information Create a fact file on a Look up some details online or in the library famous sports person about your favourite about different foods from Spain. sport and see if it is that are eaten in South played in Spain. America and Spain. Create a poster of the Find out about different flags of South Christmas traditions in America. Label them Spain. How does this all correctly. differ from our country?

Find a recipe of Find a song that you something Spanish that like with Spanish lyrics. you like the look of. Can you try and Create it at home and understand what they take photos of the are singing about? finished product!

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Music Topic Read Do Find Musical Read the article ‘How to start Compose your own Find the ‘how to’ Futures a band’ on ‘Music on a vocal melody over a video and chord mission’ website three-chord sequence sequence on OR make up a catchy www.ultimateguita ‘riff’ r.com of your favourite song (give it a go!) Minimalism Read ‘A minimal guide to Using Garage band or Find the music and Film minimalism’ on logic, compose a short ‘Different Trains’ music www.bbc.co.uk/music/artic piece of film music using by Steve Reich les only 4 loops. and listen to it.

Find out the

interesting story behind the composition African Read the articles on African Try to be involved in a Find the most Drumming drumming by the BBC drumming workshop or impressive video bitesize website. Read event. If you can’t find one of African about the history of West – join one at school or drumming you African drumming. make your own! can. Make sure it has a wide variety of instruments and lots of complex rhythms Performance Read the article ‘Four ways Put on an informal Broaden your to build confidence as concert with your friends horizons by musician’ on of all your favourite attending a live www.tunecore.com music. Perform at a gig or concert of

small venue of your your choice. Try https://www.tunecore.com /blog/2017/01/4-ways- choice, or ask school if to choose build-confidence- you can use MU2. something that musician.html you think is completely different to the music you usually listen to.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: PE

Read Do Find

“Bounce” by Matthew Represent the school in Research college and/or Syed two sports regularly. university courses that link to sport and PE.

“Eat, sweat, play” by Represent the district or Using Unifrog, search Anna Kessel county in your number careers that link to your one sport. sporting traits.

“Born to run” by Watch three whole Coaching or officiating Christopher McDougall matches or games (either opportunities in a sport of live or on TV) from three your choice. different sports.

A sporting autobiography Research a GCSE PE Find/research a set of written by someone in topic from the current practices/drills in your your number one sport. specification and write a number one sport and brief summary. recommend them to your coach.

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: PRE

Read Do Find Ethics of War : Read Anne Philosophy and Ethics: Use the Ethics: Use Ted ed to Frank’s diary How does war website to plan a trip research ethical dilemmas impacts a child’s life? Why are https://www.freud.org.uk/ https://ed.ted.com/search?utf Anne’s diaries an important 8=%E2%9C%93&qs=ethical+dil part of history? ema

Fairness and Justice : Living religion in the War: Research what is Read I am Malala and think community - Visit a key happening in war torn about the fairness and justice religious event (such as countries today, are they are she has received in her life Chinese New Year). just wars? Where are their wars today? Ethics : Read The Philosophy Living religion in the Different views on life to Files by Stephen Law Get your community - Visit a Cathedral inspire you self thinking about the BIG or similar centre of worship on https://www.bbc.co.uk/progra questions of life holiday mmes/p002vsn4/episodes/do wnloads Ethics – Read the Book Fairness and justice – look Use the podcasts from the BBC Thief at amnesty international to question and challenge your and the global thinking campaigns they run, https://www.bbc.co.uk/progra could you take a stand? mmes/p00xtky9/episodes/do wnloads

Year 9 Super Curriculum Tasks: Science

Read Do Find “Bad Pharma” by Make a rubber egg Find out if people Ben Goldacre using vinegar! are taller in the morning.

“Deadly Choices: Make a potato Find out why some How the Anti- powered alarm people get bitten vaccine movement clock! by mosquitos more threatens us all” by than others. Paul Offit

New Scientist Investigate which Find out the EPC magazine reacts more with rating (energy Mentos – Coke, Diet efficiency) of your Coke, Fanta or Dr house. What could Pepper you do to improve *Do outside!!* it? It could save your family a lot of money! “Why Can't Extract the DNA Find out what local Elephants Jump?: from pineapple in farmers grow in the And 113 Other your kitchen fields in your area. Tantalising Science (livescience.com) What are the crops Questions” by New used for? scientist Make a balloon Find out what “Fun Science: A speaker vaccinations you Guide to Life, the have had in your Universe and Why life. Why are these Science Is So systematically given Awesome” by to children? Charlie McDonnell