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Key Stage Two (Years 5 and 6)

Subject

What?

How often?

Time spent?

English

Reading

CGP workout

Spelling Shed: 3 games for year 5, 5 games for year 6.

Weekly

5 x 20 minutes

10 minutes

Approx 20 minutes

Maths

Skills booklets

TT Rockstars

Weekly

30 minutes

15 minutes

Design Technology

Research task

Key vocabulary

KS3 Food and Nutrition

Source and weigh out ingredients for practical lessons. 

(The school provide ingredients for Pupil Premium students).

1 per half term

15 minutes

Geography

Research menu sheets for each unit. Students complete one or more of these tasks.  

Revision for assessment.

1 per term

1 hour minimum

History

Historical investigation booklets: create, practise and investigate.

30 – 45 minutes

 

Key Stage Three (Years 7 and 8)

Subject

What?

How often?

Time spent?

English

Reading

CGP workout: 1 for year 7, two pages of workbook for year 8.

Spell Zone

Weekly

5 x 10 minutes

10 minutes

20 minutes

Maths

Skills and problem-solving booklets

Weekly

45 minutes

Science

Consolidation of learning in school

Weekly

30 minutes

Modern Foreign Languages

Vocabulary learning

 

 

 

Active Learn

30 minutes (ideally in 3 x 10-minute sessions)

 

30 minutes

History

Historical investigation booklets: consolidate, support and extend.

1 per half term

30 – 45 minutes

Design Technology

Research task

Key vocabulary

KS3 Food and Nutrition

Source and weigh out ingredients for practical lessons. 

(The school provide ingredients for Pupil Premium students).

1 per half term

30 minutes

Art

It is an expectation that all students studying art in KS3 will spend time each term developing their sketchbook research. The key focus is to build technical skills and knowledge of key art processes. Students may be asked to draw, research or take reference photographs for their lessons.

1 per half term

30 minutes

Geography

Research menu sheets for each unit. Students complete one or more of these tasks.  

Revision for assessment.

1 per term

1 hour minimum