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SRPA Curriculum – Y8
Our vision
The Curriculum at Sir Robert Pattinson Academy enables our students to
dream, achieve and believe in their capabilities by providing an exceptional,
inspiring educational experience, which allows students to fulfil their potential
and become highly employable and successful members of society.
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Information for parents and carers of Year 8 students – Week commencing Monday 22nd June 2020.
Please find attached details of Year 8 work for completion throughout the week commencing Monday 22nd June 2020. Students should follow the
instructions for completing their work as detailed on page 4 onwards. A number of the necessary resources are located on the Academy’s FROG VLE
site. A list of key contacts for each faculty can be located on page 3 of this document. Students can access FROG using their school email address and
password; if you require any assistance with email accounts, remote access or FROG then please review the ‘Working from home’ tab on the school
website (www.srpa.co.uk). In addition, if students have forgotten their passwords or if they have expired then please contact [email protected].
This is the final week to complete any outstanding work for our Academy’s Celebrating Student Success process. This will provide students the
opportunity to demonstrate their engagement and progress by completing end of year assessment work. Teachers will be using the outcome of these
subject assessments to complete individual reports that will be published before the summer break. Please see page 4 onwards for details of the
assessment work to be completed in each subject.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at the Academy if you have any queries regarding the information contained within this document, or if we can
do anything further to support the learning of your son/daughter at this time. The email address to use for this is [email protected].
Kind regards
Mr G Kirk
Director of Achievement (Key Stage 3)
Sir Robert Pattinson Academy
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Key Resources and Contacts
Faculty Department Contact Maths Gareth Ireland [email protected]
English Nicola Selwood [email protected]
Science Lauren Griffiths [email protected]
Humanities Samantha Papaioannou [email protected]
D & T David Palethorpe [email protected]
Art David Palethorpe [email protected]
MFL Natalie Hughes [email protected]
Computing Linda Norman [email protected]
Business Linda Norman [email protected]
Performing Arts Shannen Johnson [email protected]
PE Garry Fell [email protected]
Personal Development
R2L tutor – see teaching list on FROG
Matthew Harvey <[email protected]>
General Resources Greg Kirk [email protected]
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Year 8 Week commencing 22nd June 2020
Lesson Details
Please check your timetable using your planner or use GO4schools to establish what lessons you would be studying on each day this week. You
will then need to refer to the table below for your scheduled subject and the set of instructions that have been given to you by your teacher. If you
have any queries regarding this information, please see the contact information above.
Subject
**Subject Details**
English Task 1: Reading Continue reading Oliver Twist up to the end of chapter 41. If you have chosen a different book to read, you should read approximately 30 pages (stop at the end of a chapter). If you don’t have a book to read at home, try the project Gutenberg website for children’s classics such as Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book or Grimm’s Fairy Tales. You can also download audio books for free at Amazon Audible. Task 2: Writing If you haven’t yet sent your dystopian story opening to your teacher, please ensure you do that this week – before 26th June. This was the assessment work set last week. Task 3: Writing Complete your dystopian story. Follow your planning sheets carefully and take your time. You should aim to write between one and a half and two pages. Optional Task 4: Look on Frog – Subject Sites – English – Home Learning 2020 – Year 8 for details of a writing competition. This is not compulsory, but it might interest you!
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Email your story opening to your teacher this week, if you haven’t already done so. If you were taught by Miss Sewell, Mrs Martini or Mrs Pindar, please email your work to Miss Court: [email protected]
Maths The online learning this week will continue to focus on assessing your overall understanding of the Mathematics curriculum. The assessment feedback tasks will continue to be available for you to complete until Friday 26th June. The online MathsWatch feedback tasks are to be completed fully, as they are replacing your end of year mock exams, and therefore we suggest that you complete them without using the help videos. Unlike the usual daily online tasks, these feedback tasks will close after Friday 26th June, and you will no longer be able to complete them after this date. You have two feedback tasks to complete. The first task will be a non-calculator task to assess your written calculation skills, so please be honest and complete this to the best of your ability without a calculator. The second task is a calculator task, so please ensure you have one to hand. The purpose of these feedback tasks is to give your teacher the best possible information about what you know already, and what you still need to learn. Your teachers will use this information to plan your curriculum from September onwards. Planning the curriculum for next year will take into account the time you have missed at school, and to give your teacher the best possible information, we ask that you complete these tasks independently and honestly. The feedback tasks will not be used to make set changes, nor can they be considered a mock exam, so they will not be used for predicted grades. These tasks are purely to inform teachers planning for the coming academic year. Best of luck Mr Ireland Head of Mathematics
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If you have any issues with your username or password then please email Mr Ireland at [email protected]
Science To access your Science work for this week, please go to FROG>Science Subject Site>Year 8>Home Learning. Here, you will find an Assessment Preparation Pack which will support you in preparing for your End of Year Educake Assessment. You must complete the assessment on Educake by Friday 26th June. If you have any issues please contact your Science teacher or Miss Griffiths ([email protected])
French Hobbies 1. Students in the A or B streams need to log in or click on the following link
https://quizlet.com/_3labks?x=1jqt&i=etin9 to learn the vocab in the set T6 Hwk 2 Écouter et Regarder, ensuring that you have completed Learn, Write, Spell and Test. Students in the C or D streams need to log-in or click on the following link https://quizlet.com/_8gj27e?x=1qqt&i=etin9.
2. Log in to www.languagenut.com where a number of tasks have been set for you on hobbies including listening, reading and writing activities. Teachers will be able to monitor your progress and you will receive feedback via Languagenut. For issues with access to Languagenut please contact [email protected].
Extension:
Cover worksheets 2 pg 59-63 (Frog)
Francophone sports project (Frog)
www.linguascope.com > Beginner > French flag > Les loisirs > Les sports d’intérieur
Spanish Films and TV During term 6, we thought that it would be more beneficial to recap all of the Spanish learnt throughout Year 8, to ensure that you know it all really well before starting Year 9. 1. On Quizlet, continue to work through the revision set entitled Y8 T6 Hobbies Revision trying to
complete Learn, Test, Spell, Test, Write, Match and Gravity. You will have this for the next 2 weeks.
2. On Languagenut, complete the assignment entitled TV and films. 3. Frog > MFL site > Home Learning Spanish > Year 8
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Complete the worksheets entitled either TV and Films A/B Band or TV and Films C/D Band. I have also put a Knowledge organiser on FROG to help you, entitled Todo Sobre Mi Vida.
Russian Worksheet to be found in the usual place on the MFL Frog y8 Russian Home-learning site.
Complete the worksheet ‘Frequency Adverbs 1’ – send [email protected] or [email protected] your answers for task G at the bottom, which can count as evidence for this week. Please can you do this by hand and take a photo, this way we can avoid the use of Google Translate.
Practice the Quizlet sets that are written on the worksheet (spend max 15-20 min), also found in our class on the Quizlet site.
Extension 1:- Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMV65meFyPQ while it uses some grammar we are not familiar with, most of the vocab we are. It provides a verbal explanation of frequency adverbs and can be used as a pronunciation guide.
Extension 2:- Master the adverbs (includes extra that we will see later this term) at https://quizlet.com/511630963/learn
Extra support: Check the ‘help’ folder on the MFL Russian y8 Home-learning site. Please feel free to email me with any suggestions / issues ([email protected]). If you need cursive practice, I have found an app that may be able to help – email me at [email protected] if you would like to be a Guinea pig for the app. Extensions: There is an extra Quizlet set written on the worksheet which uses a selection of pronouns ; check out the latest weekly song challenge on our page on Frog; Memrise is a free language-learning app which has Russian available.
Geography Australia Week 6 – 2019 Bushfires - Please see the geography folder on FROG under the ‘Home Learning 2020’ Tab for the information sheets etc Starter: Write a 2 stars and 1 wish or a WWW/EBI for your work from last week. Main task: Using the resources provided create a flow diagram to show the causes, effects and responses of the bushfires in Australia.
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Watch the video if you can https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52410744 Then answer the question below: To what extent are the effects of the 2019 Australian bushfires worse for people than the natural environment? (9 marks) You may complete the work in your book (complete all work on a new page), do not forget to include the title and date. Otherwise, keep your work together in a folder or file. If you complete this work on the computer you may wish to send it into your Geography teacher via email – [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] Extension: How might Australia plan for and cope with any future bushfires? Why might this be difficult to achieve? Justify your answer
History The Workhouse Download the instructions document from Frog – History, Working from Home Term 6 2020, Year 8. You will be learning about different areas of life in the workhouse. Please email your class teacher [email protected] or [email protected] if you have any questions.
EFP The A – Z of Religion and Belief. – week 5 In this topic you get to choose what you study for EFP. This week you have M is for Meditation, N is for Numbers and O is for Omnis (H) to choose from. Task 1 – Watch all 3 x videos and choose your favourite ONE. Task 2 – Complete the video note taking sheet on paper or on the grid itself (I have created one for you as some did not understand how to make their own. Put the Title in the middle eg: M is for Meditation– it is on Frog) Task 3 – Answer ONE of the following discussion questions in a paragraph. You must give good reasons for your answer and refer to religion and belief. a) How does prayer in Christianity and Islam differ?
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b) How is the Trinity different to the trimurti in Hinduism? c) (HL) How is the God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam different to the ancient gods?
Any problems with the work – please contact [email protected] No Access students – please complete the work sent out to you
Computing This work should take approximately 1 hour to complete. 1. Open the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Presentation 2. Open the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Worksheet 3. Read Slides 1 to 5 4. Complete Task 1 on the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Worksheet 5. Read Slides 6 to 13 6. Complete Task 2 on the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Worksheet 7. Read Slide 14 8. Open the Flowgorihm program from the Remote Desktop or download it. 9. Open the Lesson 3 Flowgorithm Introduction Presentation 10. Read through the Lesson 3 Flowgorithm Introduction Presentation while looking at Flowgorithm 11. Read Slide 15 of the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Presentation 12. Complete Task 4 on the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Worksheet 13. Read Slides 16 to 18 on the Year 8 Topic 6 Lesson 3 Presentation
Reminder: All resources can be accessed from Frog, Subject Sites, Computing, Home Learning, Year 8
Music On the Music home learning page on Frog you will find your task sheet for this term. Your task sheet for this term is labelled Tasks#3. Each task is divided into lessons, you should spend one hour on each lesson. You will have three lessons of music as you now need to do one lesson of music a fortnight and one drama lesson a week. You do not need to print the documents. Any extra resources you will need are also uploaded to the same frog page. Completed music work should be sent to [email protected].
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Drama On the Drama home learning page on Frog you will find your task sheet for this term. Your task sheet for this term is labelled Tasks#3. Each task is divided into lessons, you should spend one hour on each lesson. You will have seven lessons of drama as you now need to do one lesson of drama a week and one of music a fortnight. You do not need to print the documents. Completed drama work should be sent to [email protected] or [email protected].
Design and Technology
Understanding Your Consumer/End User/Customer http://www.technologystudent.com/designpro/quest1.htm information on questionnaires 1. Explain why it is important to find out what your consumer/end user/customer wants from your
end products. Give examples to help you explain.
2. Explain what a survey is using examples. Decide and explain if it is a good method to find out what your consumer/end user/customer wants from your end products.
3. Explain what a questionnaire is using examples. Decide and explain if it is a good method to find out what your consumer/end user/customer wants from your end products.
4. Write a 5 question questionnaire. Find out what your consumer/end user/customer wants from a future chocolate bar you have been ask to design and make. Ask 10 potential consumers/end user/customers. Introduction: Explain what you are doing and why.
You are asked to present the results of your short questionnaire in 4 different ways. Then explain your results.
Pie chart formula :
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frequency
total number in survey× 360 = angle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzUpinJC-0w Pictograms https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxwxfcw/revision/1 these pages provide information on frequency tables/ bar charts Please remember you can find the work booklet to support all our design and technology set lockdown tasks. - Frog - Subjects Sites - Design and Technology - Year 8 - Work Booklet
Art
Create an image of a key using any form of media
Please ensure you return a copy of your work to your class teacher.
Analysis Sentence Starters
What you did Why you took the photographs/Experiments What media did you use? WHY Do you like/dislike how they have turned out? WHY If you could do it again, what would you change? WHY
In this piece I have… The materials I have used are… The technique I have used is… Through working in this way I have… I have shown… In the style of… This piece could be developed further by… The artist…has influenced my ideas by… To develop this piece further I could… I think using…worked really well because… I am pleased with…because…I now aim to… I like/dislike this work because… By experimenting with… I now
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PE At school you would have 1-2 hours of PE per week. However, you are potentially missing lots of exercise at the moment due to not walking/cycling to the academy, not playing sport outside of school, not going swimming, etc. Therefore, you may wish to use the links on FROG VLE to keep active on a daily basis. Remember, government guidelines are that you should complete 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Maybe you could encourage a family member to exercise with you. On the VLE PE page you will find a physical activity log and links to a variety of exercise sessions that can be completed at home. Let us know how many of the BINGO challenges you have completed – see VLE. In addition, please see the PE VLE HOME LEARNING page for a new PE ‘Lockdown Keep Active Challenge’
Personal Development
Access The Day website on this link: https://theday.co.uk/?token=Sv%2FlR7cPLIJE9dgqI6IZ%2FFq%2B9U5wDJHL
Scroll to the bottom of the page, click on the ‘Weekly Theme’ link and complete the tasks on this page.
Email completed tasks to your R2L tutor. Now you have signed up to Unifrog you can continue to build your profile. If you have not yet signed up ask your form tutor for some support. This week you will need to add your competencies on Unifrog. You will find this half way down the User Page. Please see the Icon below.
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Competencies are seen as the soft skills which all companies and universities are looking for. This is not about grades or qualifications, this is experiences and skills you can bring to a university or workplace. Understanding your skills and feeling confident to talk about them is important to help promote yourself and stand out against other applicants. You will be able to use this information to continue and develop a profile of yourselves to support applying for university or jobs in the future. All information can be updated when a more relevant or better fitting experience has happened. For example: you could be showing Leadership by being a Captain of a football team. You need to give information to support and can include a reference. Competencies you can record information under are: Aiming high When have you set a tough goal and devised a plan to achieve it? Creativity When have you used your imagination to come up with new ideas? Leadership When have you motivated people to do something positive? Listening When have you shown particularly strong skills in receiving and processing information or ideas?
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Presenting When have you shown particularly strong skills in orally transmitting information or ideas? Problem solving When have you displayed strong critical reasoning skills? Staying positive When have you overcome a set back? Teamwork When have you worked with others to get something done? Literacy When have you shown particularly strong skills in reading and/or writing? Numeracy When have you successfully worked with numbers? Independence When have you had to work on your own to achieve something? Communication When have you conveyed something that was complex or sensitive?
