We designed our new curriculum for KS4 without depending on the structure of a given textbook, neither on the order of themes as per the AQA syllabus. In order to decide our curriculum map, it was important to think about our own school’s context, the depth of topics covered at KS3, so that we could determine a sequence of topics that would best suit our students, not the textbook or the AQA syllabus. This sequence may well be very different for another school.
The Sequence at Y10
In our case we decided to teach:
Term 1: Technology and Free Time + Assessment 1
Term 2: Celebrities and Holidays/Tourism
Term 3: Family/Relationships + big input on the oral exam and End of Year Exam
It is worth mentioning that we started teaching the GCSE course after May half term when our Y10 students were still in Y9, as students at Insignis Academy Trust, get a new timetable and start their GCSE choice subjects in the last 6/7 weeks of the Summer term.
During these 6/7 weeks, we covered the topic of Festivals with a big emphasis on La Tomatina as our star festival.
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