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Year 9 Curriculum Overview

This is our Year 9 curriculum. If you click on a unit of work, you will find a unit overview document that explains the core content and vocabulary for each unit and how students will be assessed. Year 9 begin their GCSE subjects in Term 6. Please see the KS4 Curriculum page for information on the GCSE specifications.

Year 9 Curriculum Overview the Marlborough School

Subject

Topics studied throughout the year

Art

Portraiture

Conflict and hope

Printmaking

DT 3D design

Pencil Box, Cam Toy or Nutcracker

 

DT Food

Food and the environment

 

DT Textiles

Module 3 Textiles and the environment

GCSE textiles: design and make a bag out of recycled fabrics. 

Drama

Text in Practice: DNA

Devising Drama: Practitioners

Texts in practice

 

Live Theatre and GCSE Text: Noughts and Crosses

English

Short Stories

Purple Hibiscus

Romanticism

French

Relationships

Technology

Leisure

Festivals

German

Relationships

Leisure

Technology

Festivals

Geography

Coasts

Development

Globalisation

GCSE: The LIving World

History

The First World War

The Impact of WWI

The Holocaust

Diversity in C20th Britain

GCSE: Crime & Punishment

Maths

Ratio and Proportion, Types of number 2, Angles 2

Circles,  Percentages 2,  Inequalities, Rearranging formula

2D representations of 3D shapes Graphs 2 Surface Area and Nets Volume 

Music

Perform a Song Song

Arranging and Production

Composing a Song

PE

Netball

Table Tennis

Tag Rugby

Trampolining/ Fitness

Cricket / Rounders

Swimming/ Athletics

RE

Evil and suffering

Philosophy: arguments for the existence of God

GCSE Bridging Unit

Issues of life and death

Issues of relationships

Science

Inheritance

Big and Small (Maths skills for Science)

Atomic Structure (Physics)

Cell Biology

Bonding, Structure and Properties of matter

Particle Model of Matter

Electricity  and Magnetism

Atomic Structure  (Chem)

Computing

Maths and Logic

Computer Software

Coding with Python 2

Entry level certificate prep

Programming projectProgramming project

Personal Development

Topics covered in lessons, Tutor Time and Drop Down Days: Developing mental wellbeing; Keeping safe 2; Healthy intimate relationships; Developing character; Community; GCSE options; Borrowing money; The media; World conflict; Identity; Relationships