KS4 Curriculum Weekly Bulletin The aim of this bulletin is to give you (parents / carers) an overview of the topics your child will be studying at home this week: 20/04/20

Over the next week, your child will be… Art Continue to develop their portraiture – drawing, collage and mixed media work. Analysing the work of artists. Developing ‘Under the Sea’ photography techniques. (Miss Laine’s class)

Photography Continuing to develop their portraiture – physical manipulations. Completing their documentary photography. Analysing the work of photographers.

Design Technology NCFE Graphics Continuing to research the artist Hattie Stewart.

Hospitality Continuing to review ‘Health and Safety’ in the workplace. Computing/ICT Preparing for their exam in Yr11 – the topic is Cyber Security. They will have reading to do and then questions to answers.

Physical Education Downloading the revision booklet and completing Pages 12, 13 and 14 on ‘Exercise Intensity’ then complete the Socrative Questionnaire.

Participating in POPSUGAR Fitness – on YouTube. Your child should aim to complete one of the 30minute workouts Monday to Friday.

Mathematics Mr. Woods: Looking at working with Pythagoras’ theorem and working out lengths in both 2D and 3D. This will also boost their skills with indices and rearranging equations to create a new subject for a formula.

Mr. Barker: Developing and understanding of squares and cubes, learning what they are and how we calculate them.

Mrs. Charlton: Focusing on multiplicative reasoning, growth and decay, compound measures and ratio. Mrs. Robson: Dealing with powers, beginning with squares and cubes to then move onto greater powers and corresponding roots.

Science Over the next week, your child will be studying the following topics in science: Mr Spowart – Evolution and Variation In this unit of work, your child will discover how evolution is the change of inherited characteristics within a population over time through natural selection, which may result in the formation of a new species. Miss Menmuir - Particle Model In this unit of work, your child will investigate particle model, which is widely used to predict the behaviour of solids, liquids and gases and has many applications in everyday life.

Mr Macdermid, Mrs Christie and Mrs Readman - Forces In this unit of work, your child will investigate the relationship of forces including contact and non-contact forces, distance and displacement, speed, distance–time relationship and reaction time. The students will able to complete various calculations such as work done, velocity and acceleration.

Miss McKay In this unit of work, your child will be revising cells. Cells are the basic unit of all forms of life. They will also explore how structural differences between types of cells enables them to perform specific functions within the organism.

Miss Feetham - Triple – Revision of B1, C1 & P1 Topics

Biology

• Cell Biology • Organisation • Infection and response • Bioenergetics. Chemistry • Atomic structure and the periodic table • Bonding, structure, and the properties of matter • Chemical changes • Energy changes. Physics

• Energy • Electricity • Particle model of matter • Atomic structure French Spending daily time on Duolingo to improve your French vocabulary. Completing a selection of tasks on Vocab Express – monitored on line by your teacher. Spending time brushing up on key grammar points through a variety of activities. Completing translation tasks with self-marking. Creating a piece of extended writing on the topic of town. Completing work on the new topic of school and working. All instructions for online Learning can be found on the announcements section on ‘Class charts’.

English Studying English Language Paper 1. They will study an extract, from a piece of fiction, and analyse and evaluate the writer's use of language and structure. Media Studies Studying their GCSE NEA (Non-exam assessment) brief, they will begin planning their product in preparation for Y11. This will be an ongoing project for several weeks. As well as this, students will be given revision videos to watch and make notes on.

History Completing assignments on Seneca and Doddle and studying migration, the Mormons and manifest destiny.

Constructing the Built Environment Continuing to complete the Unit 1 – Safety and Security in Construction.

Geography Watching the following:

• Wonders of the Monsoon – Monday to Friday – 9am – BBC2 • The Brecon Beacons with Iolo Williams – Monday – 7pm – BBC2 • – Monday to Friday – 2pm – Yesterday • II – Monday to Friday – 3pm – Yesterday • The Story of Plastic – Wednesday – 7pm – Discovery Channel • The Lakes with Paul Rose – Thursday - 7pm – BBC2 • The River Wye with Will Millard – Thursday – 7.30pm – BBC2 This week, students will study sustainable water management strategies and look at the application of Sand Dams in Kenya to produce a sustainable water supply.

You can find daily tasks for your child to complete on: ‘Class Charts’ We would love to see the brilliant work that your child is producing at home. Please send us your pictures and we will post as many as we can on our school Facebook page. When we reopen, we will award, points and additional rewards for the best work. Let’s start a competition – who is the hardest working student at Dene? Please contact the school if you having difficulty accessing ‘Class Charts’ on: [email protected]