Key Stage 3 - Year 8
Year 8 curriculum with core and foundation subjects aligned to UK Key Stage 3 progression.
- 4 Core Subjects
- 8 Additional Subjects
Advanced drawing & tone
Perspective & space
Colour in depth
Portraiture & proportion
Artist research & analysis
Printmaking in depth
3D form & sculpture
Consolidation & application – Art and Design
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Experimental media
Art, identity & culture
Working to a theme
Idea development & refinement
Digital & photographic media
Assessment – Art and Design
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Still life & arrangement
Abstraction & distortion
Surface, texture & pattern
Evaluation & improvement
Developing toward a final piece
Consolidation & application – Art and Design
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Final piece: make & refine
Presenting a portfolio
Progress assessment – Art and Design
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Landscape & environment studies
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Pop art & popular culture
The creative process reviewed
Consolidation & application – Art and Design
Consolidation & application – Art and Design
Revision – Art and Design
Revision – Art and Design
Assessment – Art and Design
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Art and Design
Consolidation & application – Art and Design
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Enterprise & business planning
Markets & market segmentation
Market research & data
The marketing mix in depth
Break-even & contribution
Cash flow forecasting
Profit, performance & ratios (intro)
Consolidation & application – Business Studies
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Organisational structure
Recruitment & training
Motivation
Production methods
Quality & efficiency
Assessment – Business Studies
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Suppliers & the supply chain
The economic environment
Globalisation & international trade
Ethics & social responsibility
Business growth
Consolidation & application – Business Studies
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Business decision-making
Enterprise project: develop a plan
Progress assessment – Business Studies
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Digital & social-media marketing
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Risk & protecting a business
How a business fits together
Consolidation & application – Business Studies
Consolidation & application – Business Studies
Revision – Business Studies
Revision – Business Studies
Assessment – Business Studies
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Business Studies
Consolidation & application – Business Studies
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Online safety & your digital identity
Binary, data & units
How images & sound are encoded
Logic & the binary machine
Networks, protocols & the cloud
Cyber-security basics
Spreadsheets 2: modelling
Consolidation & application – Computing
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Databases 1
Algorithms: search & sort (intro)
Python: iteration
Python: lists
Python: functions
Assessment – Computing
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Python: validation & testing
Vector & raster graphics
Modelling & 'what-if'
Ethics, law & the digital world
Physical computing / simulation
Consolidation & application – Computing
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Data project
Python: combining concepts
Progress assessment – Computing
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
How the web is built (intro to HTML)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Artificial intelligence & emerging technology
Design project: plan–make–evaluate
Consolidation & application – Computing
Consolidation & application – Computing
Revision – Computing
Revision – Computing
Assessment – Computing
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Computing
Consolidation & application – Computing
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Modern novel: context & opening
Modern novel: themes & analysis
Poetry: conflict & power (anthology)
Shakespeare play in depth
Gothic & descriptive writing
Travel & biographical writing
Writing to argue
Consolidation & application – English
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
19th-century novel (extract study)
Debate & discussion
Advanced grammar & style
Dystopian fiction
Imaginative writing from a stimulus
Assessment – English
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Poetry of place & identity
Analysing persuasive non-fiction
Writing a review
Comparing fiction & non-fiction
Vocabulary for analysis
Consolidation & application – English
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Shakespeare: power & language
Extended writing to a brief
Progress assessment – English
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Writing to inform & explain
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Poetry from around the world
Skills review & targets
Consolidation & application – English
Consolidation & application – English
Revision – English
Revision – English
Assessment – English
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – English
Consolidation & application – English
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Recap: identity & present tense
Media & technology
The perfect tense (avoir)
Perfect tense (être verbs)
Past holidays
My town & local area
Directions
Consolidation & application – French
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Food, meals & mealtimes
Health & the body
Daily routine & reflexive verbs
Clothes & shopping
Adjectives & comparatives
Assessment – French
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Future plans (near future)
Jobs & work (intro)
Festivals & traditions
Reading & comprehension skills
Listening skills
Consolidation & application – French
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Translation both ways
Weather & seasons
Progress assessment – French
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
At the restaurant (extended)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Chores & helping at home
Extended writing & speaking
Consolidation & application – French
Consolidation & application – French
Revision – French
Revision – French
Assessment – French
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – French
Consolidation & application – French
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Advanced map & GIS skills
Glaciation & cold environments
Rivers revisited: processes & management
Coasts revisited: management
Tropical rainforests
Hot deserts & drylands
Population change & structure
Consolidation & application – Geography
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Migration
Megacities & urban challenges
Sustainable cities
Development & the development gap
Changing economic world
Assessment – Geography
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Food, water & energy
Climate change: causes & responses
Living with tectonic hazards
Extreme weather & climate hazards
Fieldwork: physical enquiry
Consolidation & application – Geography
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Fieldwork: human enquiry
A geographical issue evaluation
Progress assessment – Geography
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
The sediment journey: rivers to coasts
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Weather & climate: UK and global
Synthesis: our changing planet
Consolidation & application – Geography
Consolidation & application – Geography
Revision – Geography
Revision – Geography
Assessment – Geography
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Geography
Consolidation & application – Geography
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Human rights in depth
Government & democracy
Law, justice & rights
Culture, heritage & belonging
Global inequality & development
Aid, trade & reducing poverty
Globalisation & the economy
Consolidation & application – Global Citizenship
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Ethical business & consumption
Sustainability & resources
Climate justice
Migration & refugees in depth
Media literacy & misinformation
Assessment – Global Citizenship
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Conflict, peace & cooperation
Equality movements & change
Being an active citizen
Global health & wellbeing
Technology & global society
Consolidation & application – Global Citizenship
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Social-action project: develop
Social-action project: reflect
Progress assessment – Global Citizenship
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Working together: the UN & global bodies
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Volunteering & community action
A fairer, more sustainable world
Consolidation & application – Global Citizenship
Consolidation & application – Global Citizenship
Revision – Global Citizenship
Revision – Global Citizenship
Assessment – Global Citizenship
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Global Citizenship
Consolidation & application – Global Citizenship
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
The Glorious Revolution & constitutional monarchy
The British Empire grows
Transatlantic slavery: the trade
Resistance & abolition
The Industrial Revolution begins
Life in industrial towns
Protest, reform & the vote
Consolidation & application – History
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Women's suffrage
Empire, migration & Britain
Was the empire a force for good?
Causes of the First World War
The experience of the trenches
Assessment – History
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
The Home Front & total war
Peace, the 1920s–30s & the rise of dictators
Causes & outbreak of the Second World War
The Home Front & the war's course
The Holocaust
Consolidation & application – History
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
A changing world after 1945
Civil rights & equality movements
Progress assessment – History
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
A local/thematic depth study
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Victorian Britain: society & reform
Change & continuity 1700–present
Consolidation & application – History
Consolidation & application – History
Revision – History
Revision – History
Assessment – History
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – History
Consolidation & application – History
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Powers, roots & index laws
Standard form (introduction)
Algebraic manipulation
Linear equations & inequalities
Straight-line graphs
Fractions & percentages mastery
Ratio & proportion deepened
Consolidation & application – Mathematics
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Percentages in finance
Angles in parallel lines & polygons
Transformations
Circles: circumference & area
Volume & surface area
Assessment – Mathematics
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Formulae & substitution
Real-life & distance–time graphs
Probability of two events
Statistical diagrams
Averages from tables
Consolidation & application – Mathematics
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Rounding, estimation & accuracy
Sequences & the nth term
Progress assessment – Mathematics
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Measures, units & conversions
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Constructions & scale drawings
Reasoning & multi-topic problems
Consolidation & application – Mathematics
Consolidation & application – Mathematics
Revision – Mathematics
Revision – Mathematics
Assessment – Mathematics
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Mathematics
Consolidation & application – Mathematics
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Mental health & resilience
Managing stress & emotions
Body image & the media
Healthy lifestyles: diet, exercise & sleep
Drugs, alcohol & tobacco: facts & risks
First aid & keeping safe
Adolescence & changing relationships
Consolidation & application – PSHE
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Healthy vs unhealthy relationships
Respect, equality & challenging prejudice
Discrimination, stereotypes & diversity
Consent & personal boundaries
Online safety: risks, content & conduct
Assessment – PSHE
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Digital footprint & social-media wellbeing
Bullying, including online — being an upstander
Families & different family types
Conflict & communication skills
Money management & budgeting
Consolidation & application – PSHE
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
The world of work & careers
Enterprise & skills for the future
Progress assessment – PSHE
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Rights, the law & responsible citizenship
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Risk, influence & making safe choices
Reflection & progress
Consolidation & application – PSHE
Consolidation & application – PSHE
Revision – PSHE
Revision – PSHE
Assessment – PSHE
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – PSHE
Consolidation & application – PSHE
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Breathing & respiration
Circulation: blood & the heart
The periodic table & elements
Metals & reactivity
Acids, alkalis & salts
Thermal energy: heating & cooling
Magnetism & electromagnets
Consolidation & application – Science
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Electricity: series & parallel
Photosynthesis
Ecosystems & food webs
The Earth: rocks & the rock cycle
The atmosphere & human impact
Assessment – Science
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Forces: pressure
Forces & motion
Health, drugs & lifestyle
Chemical reactions & energy
Waves: light revisited
Consolidation & application – Science
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Sound waves
Variation & classification
Progress assessment – Science
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Separation & purification
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Energy, work & machines
Scientific enquiry & evaluation
Consolidation & application – Science
Consolidation & application – Science
Revision – Science
Revision – Science
Assessment – Science
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Science
Consolidation & application – Science
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Recap: identity & present tense
Media & technology
The preterite tense (regular)
Preterite: key irregulars
Past holidays
My town & local area
Directions
Consolidation & application – Spanish
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Food, meals & mealtimes
Health & the body
Daily routine & reflexive verbs
Clothes & shopping
Comparatives
Assessment – Spanish
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Future plans (near future)
Jobs & work (intro)
Festivals & traditions
Reading & comprehension skills
Listening skills
Consolidation & application – Spanish
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Translation both ways
Weather & seasons
Progress assessment – Spanish
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
At the restaurant (extended)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
Chores & helping at home
Extended writing & speaking
Consolidation & application – Spanish
Consolidation & application – Spanish
Revision – Spanish
Revision – Spanish
Assessment – Spanish
HOLIDAY (no teaching)
DIRT – directed improvement & reflection time
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Consolidation & application – Spanish
Consolidation & application – Spanish
Bridge forward to Year 9
Bridge forward to Year 9
Regular attendance and completion of weekly learning tasks
Engagement with retrieval practice and independent study activities
Use of feedback to improve written, analytical, and practical outcomes
Secure progression through UK National Curriculum-aligned knowledge and skills
Improved confidence in core, foundation, and option subjects
Readiness for the next key stage and external assessment expectations
Tuition per child. These are different contract options, not two payments for the same plan.
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