Year 8 Curriculum Information Booklet 2018 - 2019

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About Our Curriculum All students at Stretford Grammar School follow a broad and balanced curriculum. The curriculum is designed to engage and challenge all students to thrive to achieve their full potential, both in their studies and in developing as young people equipped to live happy and fulfilling lives in modern Britain and beyond. We aim to develop confident, considerate and successful young people, who enjoy and appreciate the value of learning and citizenship, ready to make a positive contribution to their local communities and to society. Students’ social, moral, spiritual, cultural and physical development at Stretford Grammar School is essential to their development as young people. All curriculum areas contribute to this programme, alongside specialist provision within Religious Education and through the Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education (PSHCE) programme which focusses on the areas of sex and relationships, careers, health, democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. All students in Years 7 to 11 follow the national curriculum which is divided into Core Subjects – English, Mathematics and Science Foundation Subjects – Art, Geography, History, Computing, Modern Foreign Languages (French, Spanish), Music, PE, Religious Education, Design Technology and PSHCE The majority of subjects in Year 8 are taught in mixed ability tutor groups and are placed into sets for English and Mathematics.
Art Art is taught to all students at Stretford Grammar School at Key Stage 3, and the National Curriculum Programme of Study for Art & Design (2007) is used as the basis for curriculum planning and delivery, as this provides the most recent detailed and applicable content. Within each Unit, there may be anything from 2-4 individual items of homework set. On submission, these will be given a mark and summative/formative comments. Once a Unit is completed, the students are given a Self-Assessment sheet in which they reflect on their work, and look forward to their future development. These are then completed by Art staff with assessment and formative comments. N.B. Apart from the Entry Level Tests in Year 7, for all Units of Art work at Key Stage 3 there may be variations in the processes and outcomes involved. The reason for this can be practical, such as availability of resources and materials, but is more often because the Units themselves have been designed to be open to individual staff and students’ interpretation and experimentation. This is the nature of Art. In Year 8, the aim for the year is to develop the students’ ability to draw imaginatively and decoratively. Unit 1 – Mucha Students will study the following within this Unit: Enlargement & use of viewfinders Decorative work & Design Lettering Commercial Art Art Nouveau Possible techniques include: Coloured Inks Photoshop Collage Drawing & Painting Unit 2 – Comic Strips Students will study the following within this Unit: Comic Strip Artists & Styles Narrative; Writing & Editing a Story Roy Lichtenstein Possible techniques include: Halftones & using Ben-Day dots Drawing & Painting Collage Unit 3 – Heraldry Students will study the following within this Unit:
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