Year 13 Further Maths Further Pure 2: Review of De Moivre s thorem Inequalities Series First order differential equations Second order differential equations Mechanics 3: Hooke s law Strings and springs Acceleration as a function of time or displacement Simple harmonic motion Further Pure 3: Further extension of coordinate systems Differentiation and integration methods Vectors Matrix algebra Revision of units Mechanics 3 Further Pure 2 Further Pure 3 Mock examinations Examination question practice Further Pure 2: Maclaurin and Taylor series Polar coordinates Mechanics 3: Simple harmonic motion Movement in a circle Centre of mass extension to 3-d Further Pure 3: Hyperbolic functions Revision of units Mechanics 3 Further Pure 2 Further Pure 3 Mock examinations Examination question practice Examinations
Year 13 BTEC Unit title: Unit 1 The Business Environment Know the range of different businesses and their ownership Understand how businesses are organised to achieve their purposes Know the impact of the economic environment on businesses Know how political, legal and social factors impact on businesses Range of different businesses, business purposes, ownership, stakeholders, organisational structures, functional areas, strategic planning, demand and supply, PESTLE Unit title: Unit 2 Business Resources Know how human resources are managed Know the purpose of managing physical and technological resources Know how to access sources of finance Be able to interpret financial statements Human resources, employability skills, Physical resources, technological resources, sources of finance, cost and budgets, financial statements, break even, ratios Unit title: Unit 3 Introduction to Marketing Know the role of marketing in organisations Be able to use marketing research and marketing planning Understand how and why customer groups are targeted Be able to develop a coherent marketing mix. The role of marketing, marketing objectives, marketing techniques, market research, market segmentation, the marketing mix Unit title: Unit 4 Business Communication Understand different types of business information Be able to present business information effectively Understand the issues and constraints in relation to the use of business information in organisations Know how to communicate business information using appropriate methods. Types of information. Purpose of information, presentation methods, legal and ethical issues, audience requirements, methods of written communication, communication skills Unit title: Unit 9 Creative Product Promotion Unit 13 Recruitment and Selection in Business Unit 9 Know the constituents of the promotional mix Understand the role of promotion within the marketing mix Understand the role of advertising agencies and the media Be able to create a simple promotional campaign. Unit 13 Know the processes involved in recruitment planning Understand the implications of the regulatory framework for the process of recruitment and selection Be able to prepare documentation involved in the selection and recruitment process Be able to participate in a selection interview. Unit 9 -The promotional mix, decisions about the appropriate promotional mix, communications model, the marketing mix, branding, the role of advertising agencies Unit 13 Recruitment planning, recruitment advertising, UK and EU recruitment laws, Job descriptions, person specifications, the interview process Unit title: Unit 1 The Business Environment Unit 2 Business Resources Unit 3 Introduction to Marketing Unit 4 Business Communication Unit 9 Creative Product Promotion Unit 13 Recruitment and Selection in Business To ensure all work is complete and ready for external verification process Any missing learning aims
Year 13 Business Enquiry focus: 3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business 3.7.1 Mission, corporate objectives and strategy 3.7.2 Analysing the existing internal position of a business to assess strengths and weaknesses: financial ratio analysis 3.7.3 Analysing the existing internal position of a business to assess strengths and weaknesses: overall performance 3.7.4 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: political and legal change Enquiry focus: 3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business 3.7.5 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: economic change 3.7.6 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: social and technological 3.7.7 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: the competitive environment 3.7.8 Analysing strategic options: investment appraisal Enquiry focus: 3.8 Choosing strategic direction 3.8.1 Strategic direction: choosing which markets to compete in and what products to offer 3.8.2 Strategic positioning: choosing how to compete Enquiry focus: 3.9 Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies 3.9.1 Assessing a change in scale 3.9.2 Assessing innovation 3.9.3 Assessing internationalisation 3.9.4 Assessing greater use of digital technology Enquiry focus: 3.10 Managing strategic change 3.10.1 Managing change 3.10.2 Managing organisational culture 3.10.3 Managing strategic implementation 3.10.4 Problems with strategy and why strategies fail Revision and exam preparation
Year 13 Economics Introduction to Economics Microeconomics: Market Structures Macroeconomics: Economic Growth and Development Concepts: Business objectives, market structures and interdependence of firms monopolies, monopolistic and perfect competition. Economic growth leading to development, measured by HDI and the value of international aid. Microeconomics: The Labour Market and Market Failure Macroeconomics: Macroeconomic Performance - Employment and Inflation Concepts: Wage determination, labour market issues and themes and government intervention. Market Failure and externalities: public goods, inequity and the environment. Inflation, employment and unemployment Macroeconomics: Economic Policy objectives and Policy instruments Concepts: Circular Flow of Income and the macroeconomy, including the economic cycle. Macroeconomic equilibrium: Aggregate Demand and Supply and the Phillips s Curve. Policy conflicts, use of policy instruments include supply side policy, fiscal and monetary policy. Macroeconomics: The financial Sector Concepts: The role of the financial sector, and the role of the central bank in Financial regulation Microeconomics: Revision Macroeconomics: The global context and the Financial Sector Concepts: Globalisation, International Trade, Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates, Trade policies and negotiations. A level exams Revision of the A level syllabus
Year 13 Health and Social Care Unit 5: Anatomy and Physiology Assignment: 5.1 Cells, tissues & the human body systems Unit 11: Safeguarding Adults : 11.1 Safeguarding Adults 11.2 Promoting independence Unit 6: Professional development 6.2 Action plan, 6.3 Evidence, 6.4 reflections Unit 5: Anatomy and Physiology 5.2: Energy booklet 5.3 Homeostasis & exercise Unit 11: Safeguarding Adults 11.3 Supportive relationships Unit 6: Professional development 6.2 Action plan, 6.3 Evidence, 6.4 reflections Unit 8: Psychological perspectives in H&SC 8.1 Psychological perspectives f 8.2 psychological application Unit 25: Coping with change 25.1 Self concept and self esteem 25.2 Major life changes and self concept 25.3 Transition and change Unit 6: Professional development 6.2 Action plan, 6.3 Evidence, 6.4 reflections Unit 4: Human development thought the life stages : 4.1 Celebrity fact file on development 4.2 5 life factor effects on a celebrity Unit 27: Dealing with challenging behavior 27.1 Causes and effects of challenging behavior 27.2: Legislation and challenging behaviour 27.3: Strategies for challenging behaviour Unit 4: Human development thought the life stages : 4.3 Magazine report on a celebrity s life as they age Unit 21: Nutrition in H&SC 21.1: Nutrition for HSC 21.2: Nutrients, energy and requirements 21.3: Influences on diet 21.4: Diet Plan Unit 6: Professional development 6.2 Action plan, 6.3 Evidence, 6.4 reflections
Year 13 History Unit title: Unit 1C - Tudor England 1547-1603 Unit title: Unit 1C - Tudor England 1547-1603 Unit title: Unit 1C - Tudor England 1547-1603 Time period: Early Modern Time period: Early Modern Time period: Early Modern Enquiry Question: To what extent was Edward VI s reign a Mid-Tudor crisis Enquiry Question: Did Elizabeth effectively secure the Tudor Dynasty? Enquiry Question: What were the key religious, social and political developments throughout the Tudor period? Key skills: Historical interpretations, causation, significance Key skills: Historical interpretations, causation, significance, change and continuity Key skills: Historical interpretations, causation, significance Unit title: 2N Revolution and Dictatorship 1929-1953 Time period: 20th century Enquiry Question: How successful were Stalin s economic reforms? Key skills: Change and continuity, significance, source analysis Unit title: 2N Revolution and Dictatorship 1929-1953 Time period: 20th century Enquiry Question: What were the causes and impact of the Great Terror? Key skills: Causation, significance, source analysis Unit title: 2N Revolution and Dictatorship 1929-1953 Time period: 20th century Enquiry Question: What was Stalin s legacy? Key skills: Change and continuity, significance, source analysis Unit title: Unit 1C - Tudor England 1547-1603 Time period: Early Modern Unit title: Unit 1C - Tudor England 1547-1603 Time period: Early Modern External A Level examinations Enquiry Question: How accurate is it to describe Marian England as a catastrophe? Enquiry Question: How far was Elizabeth I s reign the Tudor high noon? Key skills: Historical interpretations, causation, significance, change and continuity Unit title: 2N Revolution and Dictatorship 1929-1953 Time period: 20th century Enquiry Question: What were the main features of the Stalinist state? Key skills: Change and continuity, significance, source analysis Key skills: Historical interpretations, causation, significance Unit title: 2N Revolution and Dictatorship 1929-1953 Time period: 20th century Enquiry Question: How was the Soviet Union able to defeat the Nazi invasion? Key skills: Causation, significance, source analysis
Year 13 Maths Core 3: Differentiation review Algebraic fractions Numerical methods (roots) Functions (domain, range, inverse) Exponential and log functions Graph transformations Decision Maths 1: Algorithms and graphs Route inspection Critical path analysis Core 4: Parametrics Binomial extension Integration rules and methods Vectors Revision of units Core 3 Core 4 Decision 1 Mock examinations Examination question practice Core 3: Trig graphs and inverses and reciprocals Trig rules (double angle, factor formulae etc) Differentiation Decision 1: Critical path analysis Linear programming Core 4: Partial fractions Parametrics Revision of units Core 3 Core 4 Decision 1 Mock examinations Examination question practice Examinations
: Year 13 Modern Foreign Language Half Term 3: Half Term 5: The Environment Independent Research Project 1: Film Grammar: Impersonal verbs Future perfect tense Imperative forms : Multicultural societies and immigration Independent Research Project 2: Period of History/Region Grammar: Conditional perfect tense The subjunctive Immigration, integration & racism Independent Research Projects continued Grammar: Subjunctive verbs in different tenses Half Term 4: Current social issues: wealth and poverty, public order Grammar: Indefinite adjectives Demonstrative adjectives & pronouns Current social issues: technological and scientific advances Grammar: Expressing value judgements in debates Relative pronouns and expressions Conjunctions that take subjunctive Half Term 6: All topics and independent research projects revision
Year 13 Music Unit title: 6MT03: Music Technology Portfolio 2 Content: AoS3 The Development of Technology-based Music Task 3C: Independent work Task 3B: Planning and preparation Unit title: 6MT03: Music Technology Portfolio 2 6MT04: Analysing and Producing exam Content: AoS3 The Development of Technology-based Music Tasks 3A and 3C: Independent work Task 3B: Recording instruments Logbook Task 3C: Writing draft notes Unit title: 6MT03: Music Technology Portfolio 2 6MT04: Analysing and Producing exam Content: AoS3 The Development of Technologybased Music Tasks 3A, 3B and 3C: Finish mixing and checkover final bounces Logbook: Print/write-up whole final Logbook Real Mock Exam 2 Final A2 Exam preparations Unit title: 6MT03: Music Technology Portfolio 2 6MT04: Analysing and Producing exam Content: AoS3 The Development of Technology-based Music Tasks 3A and 3C: Independent work Logbook Task 3C: Writing draft notes In-Class Mock Real Mock Exam 1 Unit title: 6MT03: Music Technology Portfolio 2 6MT04: Analysing and Producing exam Content: AoS3 The Development of Technology-based Music Tasks 3A and 3C: Begin final mixing Task 3B: Recording instruments and begin final mixing Logbook: Finalising notes for whole book In-Class Mock
Year 13 Photography Unit title: Unit 1. Course work. Focus Summer holiday tasks review and development. Revisited yr12 course work. Enquiry Advanced camera settings. Lighting. Studio lighting. Concepts/themes links: Formal elements. Extended essay investigation. Unit title: Unit 1. Course work Focus Mock exam project. Enquiry Reciprocity failure, film speed. Papers. Gallery visit. Visiting photographer workshop. Concepts/themes links: Formal elements. Independent development. Comparative analyses Unit title: Unit 1. Course work completion Unit 2. Examination project Focus Unit 1 Course Work & extended essay completion. Unit 2 Examination project preparation. Enquiry Examination question response. Gallery and site visit. Concepts/themes links: Formal elements. Unit 2- broadest range of skills evidenced Unit title: Unit 2. Examination project Focus Unit 2 Examination project preparation Enquiry Camera settings, lighting experiment Gallery and site visit. Visiting photographer workshop. Concepts/themes links: Advanced camera and equipment manipulation techniques. Formal elements. Unit title: Unit 2. Examination Focus Examination days x3. Examination preparation improvement. Enquiry Extended ideas and additional technical experiments. Gallery visit and site visits. Concepts/themes links: Formal elements. Working to a schedule. End of course.
Year 13 Psychology Component: Applied psychology (03) Unit title: Criminal psychology Component: Applied psychology (03) Unit title: Child psychology Component: Research methods (01) Unit title: Revision Topics What makes a criminal? The collection and processing of forensic evidence Collection of cognitive evidence Psychology and the courtroom Crime prevention Effect of imprisonment Intelligence Pre-adult brain development Perceptual development Cognitive development and education Development and attachment Impact of advertising on children Data Research methods and techniques Planning and conducting research Data analysis and presentation Report writing How science works Component: Applied psychology (03) Unit tittle: Issues in Mental health Topics The historical context of mental health The medical model Alternatives to the medical model Component: Psychological themes through core studies, Year 2 (02) Unit title: Biological Regions of the brain Brain plasticity Unit title: Individual differences Understanding disorders Measuring differences Revision