“Providing a foundation for life”

Year 10

Study Booklet

Autumn (Michaelmas) Second Half Term

2014 - 2015

This booklet contains important information for all subjects regarding key dates

during this half term for coursework, homework and controlled assessment tasks.

Homework

Please find a list below of the recommended study books for the different

subjects studied at Key Stage 4 for independent study at home. The ISBN

number has been included as a means of finding exactly the right book.

Key Stage 4 Study Texts / Websites:

Subject Book Title / Website ISBN

English Edexcel GCSE English and English Language Core

978-1846907036

Student Book

Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Student Book

Revise Edexcel: Edexcel GCSE English

Language and Literature Revision Workbook

Higher

978-1846909375 978-1446904398

Maths Collins New GCSE Maths - Student Book Higher

1: Edexcel Linear (A) for Year 10

Collins New GCSE Maths - Student Book Higher

2: Edexcel Linear (A) for Year 11

Collins New GCSE Maths - Student Book

Foundation 1: Edexcel Linear (A) for Year 10

Collins New GCSE Maths - Student Book

Foundation 2: Edexcel Linear (A) for Year 11

Revision Guides are from the CGP series, (we do not recommend the workbooks as they do not come with solutions, so students cannot check their work)

GCSE Maths Edexcel Revision Guide (with

Online Edition) - Higher

GCSE Maths Edexcel Revision Guide (with

Online Edition) - Foundation

978-0007340262

978-0007340293

978-0007340187

978-0007340224

978-1841465449

978-1841465456

Triple Science ** Collins GCSE Essentials - AQA Physics: Revision Guide

978-1844194780 (RRP £4.99, our price £2.50) Collins Lonsdale GCSE Essentials - AQA Physics: Exam

978-1844191543 Practice Workbook (RRP £5.99, our price £3) Collins GCSE Essentials - AQA Chemistry: Revision

978-1844194773 Guide (RRP £4.99, our price £2.50) Collins GCSE Essentials - AQA Chemistry: Exam 978-1844191536 Practice Workbook (RRP £5.99, our price £3)

Additional Science **

Collins GCSE Essentials - AQA Science A: Revision 978-1844194728 Guide (RRP £4.99, our price £2.50) Collins GCSE Essentials - AQA Science A: Exam 978-1844191482 Practice Workbook (RRP £5.99, our price £3)

MFL GCSE French AQA Complete Revision & Practice with

978-1847624321 Audio CD Or

GCSE French AQA Revision Guide 978-1847622853

Geography My Revision Notes: WJEC B GCSE Geography 978-1444193909

History GCSE History Schools History Project The Revision

978-1847622815 Guide GCSE Bitesize History Schools History Project

978-1406654431 Complete Revision and Practice

Philosophy and Ethics

AQA Religious Studies B: Religious

Philosophy and Ultimate Questions

978-0340983645

Art 200 Projects to Get You into Art School 978-0713687996

Music First Steps in Music Theory: Grades 1-5 978-1860960901 GCSE Music Edexcel Areas of Study Revision Guide **

978-1847623720

Food Technology Design & Make It! - GCSE Revised - Food Technology

978-0748760848 Total Revision - GCSE D and T: Food Technology 978-0007136261 GCSE Design and Technology: Food Technology 978-1873929629

Resistant Materials Total Revision - GCSE D and T: Resistant Materials

978-0007136247 GCSE D&T: Resistant Materials (GCSE Success Guides

978-1843152361 Questions & Answers) Design & Make It! - GCSE Resistant Materials

978-0748760831 Technology

PE Edexcel GCSE PE Student

Book http://www.s-

cool.co.uk/gcse/pe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe/

978-1846903724

** These books are sold in school by the relevant subject area and are therefore

available at a cheaper price than online.

A few points to note:

These are recommendations and there is no expectation upon parents /

carers to buy any of the books listed.

The books are available from Amazon but other book sellers are available

and you should feel free to shop around if you want to see if you can find

a cheaper price.

English Language Unit 3: Spoken Language controlled assessment worth 20% Part 1: Spoken Language Study Part 2: Writing for the Spoken Voice Students will be developing skills in analysing the spoken language that we hear and use in a range of contexts. They will also employ their creative skills to write in a genre which requires them to recreate the patterns of spoken language, such as a script or a podcast. The first assessment will take place in the week commencing 1st December (10A and 10B) and the second will be in the week commencing 15th December (10A) and 14th January (10B). Homework The weekend before each assessment, students should ensure they have effective planning sheets to guide them in the assessment. A good habit for students to adopt is to memorise the specific terminology they will require. One way they might do this is by highlighting relevant words in their notebooks and turning them into mind maps. Supporting homework will be set as the need arises.

There are study guides available on https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/ which can support

the students’ learning in spoken language.

Mathematics

During the second half of the Michaelmas Term the students will be studying the following topics:

Angles:

Interior and exterior angles of regular polygons

Angles on parallel lines Angle relationships Angle proofs

Transformations:

Rotation Translation Reflection Symmetry – rotation and line Enlargement

o Positive scale factors o Negative scale factors o Fractional scale factors

Students have completed their mock examination, which was a past GCSE paper. The results of this exam will form the basis of their PCP2 grade. Homework They can access mathswatch, and there are maths staff available every lunch time to help support them. The students were given revision guides during the summer term of Year 9, they can

use these guides to refresh their learning.

Science

Both double and triple science:

Topics for 10A: Fundamental Chemical Ideas Rocks and Building Materials Metals and their uses (There will be more after Christmas!) Topics for 10B: Inheritance Adaptation Cloning Evolution and Darwins Ideas Controlled assessments will take place in the summer term for triple science and in the spring term for double science. Homework Triple Science:

Regular exam questions Out of class stretch and challenge questions The topic will be Chemistry (C1)

Double Science:

Practice Exam Questions Research projects The topic will be Biology (B1)

They all have been provided with a revision guide (10A and 10B) Recommended Website: BBC Bitesize course is AQA

French AQA course: 4655 Controlled Assessment Dates: Please note that the controlled assessment originally planned for the end of the autumn term has been pulled into the November Y10 exam. Therefore the rest of this term and the beginning of next term will be spent preparing for the forthcoming written controlled assessment as follows: Preparation time during 6 lessons beginning week of 26 January Controlled Assessment during week beginning 9 February AQA prohibit teacher support during the 6 preparation lessons prior to the controlled assessment. It is therefore of great importance that students keep up with written practice throughout the coming months so that all work can be marked before this preparation time! Controlled Assessment Task: Writing Task "En Forme" – Healthy lifestyle What is your usual diet at home and when you are out? How sporty are you? What do you do that is particularly good or bad for your health? What have you done recently to keep fit and healthy? What are your resolutions for keeping fit and healthy? Students must include past, present, future, opinions and connectives. Detailed descriptions and variety of vocabulary are needed for all grades. A variety of structures is required for higher grades. Homework Use writing frames to prepare for writing controlled assessments. Translation tasks Grammar practice tasks. Regular written paragraphs based on classwork. Useful websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/french/speakingf/f06_interview_healthy_rev3.shtml http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/french/health/revise-it/illnesses-and-getting-better

History – 10A Only The topic they are studying up to Christmas is Nazi Germany including: Weimar Republic Stab in the Back Theory Treaty of Versailles Political Uprisings Invasion of the Ruhr Hyper inflation Stresemann and the Golden Years. The rise of the Nazi party 1924-1928. They can find all revision for this topic on BBC Bitesize or Edexcel, or their books. We are doing Nazi Germany up until February then we will be looking at Britain. Controlled assessment will be complete the first 2 weeks of year 11 and the preparation will be in the summer term of year 10. Homework: The students will receive 1 hour a week, this will either be a completion task, revision task or a worksheet provided as they carry on through the course. It will include exam question practise.

Useful website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Germany 1918 - 1939 Modern World History, Liberal reforms, Home Front, votes for women, Labour Party, General Strike, depression, Welfare State

Geography

(Specification = WJEC B) The one Controlled Assessment will be started in June 2014 Topics this half term: Urbanisation Students need to: -know the processes of urbanisation, re-urbanisation and gentrification -compare quality of life / standards of living between urban and rural areas within one country where urbanisation is occurring -know the push and pull factors of migration -be able to give the social and economic impacts of migration Planning Issues in the built environment Students need to: -be familiar with the concepts of greenbelt, greenfield and brownfield sites -be aware that that different viewpoints, values and attitudes are held on planning issues by different stakeholders and study a real example of this -give strategies for sustainable communities including transport and building design Homework Students have all been issued with a homework booklet that covers the topics that will be covered this term. They should make sure they are regularly completing the tasks it contains. A copy of the booklet can be downloaded from the main Geography page on Fronter as can resources to help students complete it. To help students with the above work that will be covered in class at how they can use the following websites to consolidate and add to their learning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/topics/primary/geography/cities_town_and_villages.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/migration/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/urban_environments/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/rural_environments/ Also students can read about Geographical issues in the news using www.theday.co.uk (the school has a subscription to this site username= saxmundham, password= theday)

Philosophy and Ethics

There are no Controlled Assessments for this course

Topic for this half term:

The Existence of God, this covers:

-First Cause argument (cosmological argument);

-Design argument (teleological argument);

-Argument from miracles;

-Argument from religious experience;

-Argument from morality;

-Arguments against belief in the existence of God.

To help students with the above work that will be covered in class at how they can

use the following websites to consolidate and add to their learning:

http://revisionworld.co.uk/gcse-revision/rs-religious-studies/philosophical-

perspectives/existence-god/arguments-and-against

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/rs/god/argumentsrev1.shtml

Also students can read about news stories related to their Philosophy lessons using www.theday.co.uk (the school has a subscription to this site username=

saxmundham, password= theday)

Homework

Additional homework tasks will be set during this half term when needed. These will

follow on from pieces of classwork that have been completed.

PE

Students this term are following courses in Football and Volleyball for the girls

and Rugby and Volleyball for the boys. Although these activities will not be

formally assessed as part of the short course GCSE, the students are

performing other roles in the lessons which use skills which are fundamental to

the course. These include learning about and leading warm ups, cool downs

and small group coaching and leadership. Students are also assessing their own

and others performances.

All students in year 10 will be starting the theory aspect of their PE GCSE

course after Christmas. Students will have one lesson of theory and one

practical lesson a week. The theory work will examine the unit ‘Healthy, active

lifestyle’. Each student will be given a revision workbook which includes exam

like questions on the theory curriculum.

In the practical lessons after Christmas students will be focusing on Basketball.

This is an assessed unit of which will be externally moderated in Year 11.

Useful Reading- Edexcel Revision Guide for Physical Education. (Pearson ISBN 978-1-4469-0362-9)

OPTIONS

Design and Technology: AQA Resistant Materials.

Students will be doing a practice controlled assessment this half term on a

sustainable animal habitat. This work will go towards their PCP grade.

Homework:

Students will be set home work when needed to back up theory knowledge from the

lessons.

Useful Websites for support with homework or controlled assessment:

www.technologystudent.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/resistantmaterials/

Music (Edexcel)

Controlled assessment task:

Recording solo performance week commencing 8th December 2014.

Topics of study include:

Berstein 'Something's Coming' from West Side Story

Miles Davis 'All Blues'

Rag Desh - Indian Classical

Homework

Listening tickets - two pieces per week.

Practice log for performing.

Exam essay questions.

Key word grids.

Recommended reading:

http://www.gcsemusic.info

A really useful website dedicated to all 12 set works including pop casts and relevant

reading.

Art and Design

Over the course of the year students will study three subject areas: Natural Forms which will focus on drawing skills looking at the natural world and they will explore a range of artists both contemporary and from other times. The Coastal unit includes a visit to Aldeburgh beach to study the Shell by Maggi Hamblin and other aspects of the beach. They will also look at other artists such as Ben Nicholson and Margaret Mellis. For the Identity unit students will explore their ideas about Identity looking at artists from different periods as a starting point to develop their final work. We are using the Edexcel Examination Board. Each unit will be assessed separately. Homework Through each separate unit students will be given a range of visual research and written tasks as homework.

Resources:

http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art

Books:

The Art Book, Phaidon Publishing, 1997