Homework Booklets
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Learning at home starts with the homework booklet.
Paper copies are available please contact your class teacher.
When you have completed your homework booklet, please use the subject resources below.
Topic outline
Computing
Using the student logins at the front of their planners you will be able access a wide range of programming and coding resources for Computing.
Different Sections:
- 2Code: in this area there are a series of differentiated challenges for students that will enable them to develop their coding skills. All students should be familiar with this area from their lessons in school. They progress in level of difficulty from Chimp to Gibbon.
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2Type: This area will enable students to practice their touch typing skills and gradually become more confident in their typing.
- 2DIY: This area has a number of simple and easily explained Games and Activities that enable students engage in logical thinking.
- Online Safety: There are a range of activities that students can look and work through that help them to develop further understanding of being safe whilst working, communicating and playing online.
Geography - Pollution & Climate Change
Try to consider where pollution comes from. Identify the four main areas of pollution. Consider what creates pollution within these areas. Add the pictures to the sections to match the pollution source. good luck
Identify what types of pollution there are using photos.
Then consider the effects these pollutions types are having on the planet.
Finally create a mind map (pick one pollution type and add its effects around the mind map)
Good luck
History
Use this resource pack to investigate the Titanic disaster.
Titanic Investigation
The Industrial Revolution (1750 -1900) was a time of great change in this country. Use these activities to learn about how towns grew as a result of people moving out of the countryside.
Music
Topic: Exploring Rounds
During the first term I will:
- Sing and play music in 2 or more parts
- Explore harmony and dissonance
- Play drones and melodic accompaniments
- Perform an ostinato
- Create rounds using computer software
Topic: Exploring Sound sources
During the second term I will:
- Learn about acoustic and electronic sounds
- Use voice editing software
- Identify how sounds can be altered electronically
- Use UMYX editing software to alter music.
Compose my own music using a laptop and iPad (Garageband).
Just For Fun!
RE
Learn how members of the Sikh community join the Khalsa. Learn about the rituals and the rules Sikh communities follow. Watch a short film clip on School Tube to add to your understanding.
Science
This term Year 9 students will start science with an introduction to microscopes. They will have opportunities to use the microscope to focus on a range of pre-made slides and slides made by them and become proficient using them. In addition, they would explore the use of microscope in different workplaces and link this to vast knowledge and understanding of COVID-19 as a result of the use of Microscope as the basis.
Further more, they will then make slides of both plant and animal cells and study the structure (organelles) of these. They will go on to look at specialised cells including sex cells.
