Creative and Performance

Art

The Art curriculum focuses first on pupil mastery of the skills and techniques required to create an accurate representation from observation. Once mastered, these skills allow pupils to convey ideas to an audience using a range of different media.

From Year 7 to Year 9, pupils follow a spiral curriculum focused on mastery of direct observation and portraiture skills, increasing in challenge each cycle. Alongside this, they are introduced to key artists and movements from prehistoric to contemporary art. 

For pupils on the GCSE pathway from Year 10, pupils use the artistic vocabulary, awareness and skill-set honed in earlier years to explore and responding to a chosen starting point.  They sit the Edexcel GCSE Art and Design qualification, which offers both a Fine Art or Photography endorsement.

  

Autumn 1  

Autumn 2  

Spring 1  

Spring 2  

Summer 1  

Summer 2  

Year 7  
Observation skills. Pencil skills and understanding tone  
How to observe still life  
Colour theory  
Formal elements  
Portraiture  

Year 8  
Perspective techniques  
Still life  
Human form  

Year 9  
Refining observation  
Responding to artists  
Exploration of materials  

Year 10  
Coursework Unit 1A   
Starting points: Indulgence, inside/outside, distorted, fragments, organic forms.  
Coursework Unit 1B  
Starting points: Derelict, culture, protest, in the news, reflections  

Year 11  
Continuation of coursework Unit 1B  
Starting points: Derelict, culture, protest, in the news, reflections  
Coursework Unit 2: Externally set title.  
  

Physical Education

Physical education is a cornerstone in developing healthy, academic and well-rounded young people today and for life. The PE curriculum aims to develop the full potential of every pupil through high quality physical education within academic and sporting environments. 

Between Year 7 and Year 9 pupils study a range of topics from basic health, fitness and wellbeing, through principles and methods of training, diet and nutrition to the structure and function of the skeletal, muscular and cardio-vascular systems. They will also participate in regular physical and sports activities such as football, basketball, hockey, netball and athletics.

Pupils can go on to study for Edexcel GCSE PE or OCR Cambridge National Sports studies from Year 10 onwards.

  

Autumn 1 

Autumn 2 

Spring 1 

Spring 2 

Summer 1 

Summer 2 

Year 7 
Components of Fitness  
  
Warm Ups  
Benefits of Exercise  
Warm Ups  
Skeletal System: Structure & Function  
Goal Setting  
  
Types of Guidance  
Diet & Nutrition  
Types of Muscle   
Label Voluntary Muscles  

Year 8 
Effects of Exercise  
Sports Injury & Treatment  
Antagonistic Pairs  
Muscle Fibre Types  
Fitness Testing  
Commercialisation  
Sportsmanship  
Gamesmanship  
Deviance  
Methods of Training  

Year 9 
Health, Fitness & Wellbeing  
Consequences of a Sedentary Lifestyle  
Factors Affecting Participation  
  
Principles of Training  
Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED’s)  
Cardio-Respiratory System  
Aerobic & Anaerobic Exercise  
  
  
Skill Classification  

Year 10 
Musculo-Skeletal System  
Physical Training  
Cardio-Respiratory System  
Effects of Exercise  
Optimising Training  
Sports Psychology  
  
Movement Analysis  

Year 11 
PEP  
Health, Fitness and Well being  
Socio-Cultural  
Practical  
Revision  
  

 

OCR Sport Studies  

 

  

Autumn 1 

Autumn 2 

Spring 1 

Spring 2 

Summer 1 

Summer 2 

Year 10 

Contemporary Issues in Sport  

Developing Sport Skills (practical)  

Working in the Sport Industry  

Year 11 

Sports Leadership  

Intervention  

Course Complete  

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts curriculum aims to ignite pupil creativity, imagination and interest in the arts. 

Year 7  introduces pupils to the origins of Greek theatre, Commedia Dell'Arte and Shakespeare. In Year 8 pupils are introduced to key theatre practitioners, in both drama and dance, who have inspired generations of professional performers. Year 9 focuses on performance styles and physical practice. Throughout the curriculum, pupils return to core knowledge and skills, building mastery and spiralling up in challenge.

In Year 10 pupils begin to study for the Edexcel BTEC Performing Arts qualification, which has endorsements in both Dance and Drama. This allows them to explore professional work, looking at the inter-relationships between key features of performance material. Pupils will be able to interpret writers and performers intentions, performing as a professional theatre company through devising and creating performances. 

  

Autumn 1  

Autumn 2  

Spring 1  

Spring 2  

Summer 1  

Summer 2  

Year 7  
Greek Theatre  
Capoeira  
Commedia Dell’Arte  
Mime and Mask  
Melodrama  
Pantomime  

Year 8  

 
Elizabethan Theatre  
Naturalism  
Epic Theatre  
Verbatim Theatre  
Total Theatre  
Theatre of Cruelty  

Year 9  
Exploring Style through Professional Repertoire  
Creating for Performance  
Performing Professional Repertoire  

Year 10  
Component 1: Exploring the Performing Arts  
Component 2: Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts  
Devising Workshops  

Year 11  
Component 2: Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts  
Component 3: Responding to a Brief  
Coursework  

Music

The Music curriculum is designed to underpin key knowledge and core musical skills of performing, composing and listening. These skills are developed through varied units increasing in demand, context and breadth.

In Year 7 pupils focus on an introduction to listening, performing and composing skills via the elements of music. In Year 8 pupils develop these skills further whilst exploring a range of genres and their cultural context. In Year 9 they will further their independent use of the skills explored earlier in the curriculum -  listening, composing and performing a diverse range of pieces and genres.  

From Year 10, pupils can go on to study the Edexcel  BTEC Tech Award Music.

   

Autumn 1   

Autumn 2   

Spring 1   

Spring 2   

Summer 1   

Summer 2   

Year 

7  
Musical Ingredients  
Keyboard skills   
I’ve got Rhythm   
Composition skills (take 5 with structures)  
Great Composers   
Live Lounge    

Year 

8  
Reggae  
Blues  
Musical Styles from Around the World    
Compositional devices (Minimalism/EDM/T&V)  
Musical Theatre  
Hip-hop   

Year 

9  
The birth of pop    
4 chord song   
Film Music    
Covers and Remix    
Professional skills for the music industry   

Year 10  
Component 1 “Exploring Music Products and Styles”   
Component 1 “Exploring Music Products and Styles”    
  
Component 2 “Music skills development”  

Year 

11  
Component 2 “Music skills development”  
Component 3 “Responding to a Commercial Brief”  
Component 3 “Responding to a Commercial Brief”  
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