Super-Curriculum Tasks Year 9 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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. 5 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. 6 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. 7 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