Year 9 Remote Learning

The online resources for Year 9 Art can be found on Moodle: https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=480

If you have any problems or questions please contact your Art teacher by email.

The work in March, April and May was focused on new content from the Communicable Disease section.

The aim of this final term is to reinforce the GCSE content you have learnt this year from both the Communicable Disease topic and the Cells topic. It is important that you complete this work so that you move into Year 10 with a strong knowledge base. 

We are not asking for work to be routinely submitted but we would like the work from 18/05 and 08/06 to be sent to your teacher for marking. The best way to do this is by using an app like Microsoft lens or cam scanner to generate a PDF of your work before emailing it to your teacher. 

You will be assigned weekly Seneca tasks to be completed by your teacher, which we can see, so make sure it is done. We have also provided a column for you to tick for you to keep track of your learning. 

May onwards

We have now completed the work that we need to teach you before your end of Year 9 exam. The focus in the next few weeks for your work at home is to revise and prepare for this assessment by completing a set of resources. There are three lessons of work here, but there is also a compulsory homework task set that you can complete at any time, but needs to have been completed and emailed to your teacher by Sunday 31 May 2020.

You will be asked to use:              

• Moodle via school website
• GCSEPod
• GCSE Bitesize (no login required)

March – April

We have just started work on the first topic of C1 for GCSE work into separating mixtures. Depending on your class, you may be at slightly different points. Start in the week of work you are currently working on and ensure that is complete, and then move on accordingly.

You will be asked to use:              

• Moodle (use school username and password) via school website
• GCSEPod

All Dance resources can be accessed on Moodle under the different year group headings.

The latest work (to cover the period of 11–22 May 2020) can also be downloaded below:

• Year 9 Dance Repertoire and Choreography (PDF)

Miss Morgan and Miss Briggs have also created a timetable of the different online dance classes that are available. This is a great opportunity to maintain your dance technique whilst staying at home, however this is an optional addition to the work set on Moodle. Continue to keep yourselves safe and find new ways to express your creativity!

• Online Dance Classes Timetable (PDF)

Students will be working through a design-based ‘Chocolate Packaging Project’. Students (where possible) have been given a hard copy of the booklet, which contains resources, worksheets and detailed instructions for all the activities.

All resources, including the work booklet and PowerPoints of the lessons (should the students need them), are available on Moodle (Yr 9 design and technology.) The work booklet includes a hard copy of an isometric grid that students can use with underneath the design pages of their booklet.

Hour 1:

Students are to read the design problem, brief and specification for the produce, and identify their target audience. They will then complete a product analysis for three existing packaging designs, to give them an understanding of what is required for their design work.

Hour 2:

Students will produce an initial design, using isometric drawing that meets the design brief and includes information based on their findings from the product analysis tasks.

Hour 3:

Students are to identify a number of packaging symbols and consider a range of different net designs before producing a second different packaging design idea.

Hour 4:

Students will learn about different finishing techniques within packaging design and then apply their findings to a third design idea.

Hour 5:

Students will develop a net for their most recent/best chocolate package design.

Hour 6:

Students will produce a presentation drawing of their final product.

Hour 7:

Students will produce a sales poster for the new product that clearly shows their chocolate box design.

Year 9 Drama

As Year 9 drama is mostly practical for the rest of the course, this is only really relevant for students who have opted for Year 10 Drama GCSE. If you can get hold of the script DNA by Dennis Kelly, this will be a good place to start for the first week. Read the script and research themes/characters.

Please see Year 9 Drama on Moodle, This has the DNA booklet with tasks to complete if you wish to do some of these.

This will be looked at in more detail in Year 10, so there is no expectation for Year 9 students to complete work in this booklet, but if you would like a headstart aim to complete the following tasks:

Approx. 2 – 3 lessons of work: Read pages 5 and 6 of GCSE DRAMA Component 3: DNA and complete page 4. You will find key quotes about them in the script.

Approx. 2 – 3 lessons of work: Start designing ideas for costumes for each of the characters on pages 25 – 30. Use your imagination, or images online, or YouTube clips to be as detailed with costume ideas as possible. Explain on the designs what each costume idea tells the audience about that character.

If you are unable to access the DNA script, please spend time watching live theatre performances. Follow this link for live theatre free performance: https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/stage-shows-musicals-opera-free-stream-online_51198.html

If you scroll down to The Wind In The Willows – you can follow the link to watch this for free (they ask for a small donation).

There are also plenty of other theatre productions on YouTube – but please check with your parent/carer for permission and suitability.

On Moodle you will find Theatre evaluation booklet, which you can use to reflect on the live theatre performance.

Mrs Pollock’s email is on the weekly plan page on Moodle.

The link to the English content on Moodle is: 

https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/index.php?categoryid=52

Submission of Work

• Submission of work for the English Department: Year 9 English (PDF)
• How to submit work – English Department email addresses (PDF)

Year 9 English Remote Learning – Guidance

You should all be working through the two LOL Booklets which you have access to via Moodle. You can work on either the fiction or non-fiction booklet first and tasks can be completed in any order. 

We recommend that you complete two tasks per week.

• In order to complete Literature through the Ages booklet you will need to read a novel of your choice.
• The tasks in both booklets carry a number of points each, these numbers given you an idea of how long you should spend on the tasks.
• Present your completed tasks neatly and collate them so that when we do return to school you are able to submit all your work together.

Possible additional tasks:

Wider reading

• Other novels by the same author
• Other books about the same topic/theme
• Books/articles about the context of the novel you have chosen

Research

• About the author of the novel you have chosen
• About the subject matter of the novel you have chosen
• About current affairs behind the news headlines/topics you are exploring

Preparation for Year 10:

Next year you will begin your GCSEs.  The texts we cover at QE are Animal Farm, Macbeth and ‘A Christmas Carol’. If you are able to access these texts you could prepare yourself by reading them ahead of time or watching TV/film adaptations of them to support your understanding of the stories. 

Remember – the best way to develop your literacy and English skills is regular reading so the more you do of that the better!

Please click on the link below to view the Year 9 French resources:

Lessons 1 – 4 (March/April)

• Year 9 French (PDF)

From Easter to May

• General instructions for home learning lessons: Easter to May (PDF)

We have set up a Moodle course: https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=435

Two weeks’ worth of work has been uploaded. Work is project-based, and the work will be reviewed and used in subsequent lessons when students return to school.

Instructions include web links to help students to find the information they need.

The work can be done by hand or typed on the computer, although students will need access to the internet. 

Please click on the links below to view the Year 9 German resources:

Lessons 1 – 4 (March/April)

• Lesson 1 (PDF)
• Lesson 2 (PDF)
• Lesson 3 (PDF)
• Lesson 4 (PDF)

From Easter to May

• General instructions for home learning lessons: Easter to May (PDF)

Health and Social Care – Year 9 into Year 10 work

You are able to order a free first aid booklet from the St. John Ambulance website if you would like. The is, however, not a requirement. Please check with parents before you order if you would like one.

Task 1

Research the key words and fill in the table: Emergency, first aid, casualty, risk, conscious, airway, pulse, CPR, unconscious, severity, hypoglycaemia, AED (watch the following clip on how to use an AED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFvL7wTFzl0&list=PLvd0isBh6beQJ1YrlssqzKoXY_aw-qvoW)

Task 2

Research what ABC stands for and research how you would put someone in the recovery position (use this video to help: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/first-aid/recovery-position/). Make a poster each on these, either on the computer or hand-written.

Task 3

Finding out about CPR: Watch the following clip and write a step-by-step guide (including pictures if you would like) about how to give CPR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNNOh8c8ks

Task 4

Using the St. John Ambulance website, research the steps you would take if someone is unconscious or not breathing. Create a storyboard on how you would approach this.

Task 5

Watch a video on the Heimlich maneuver on YouTube and write a step by step guide on how to perform this. On the St. John Ambulance website, research the sequence of steps you would take if someone was choking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9hpOnvtCk. Complete a poster on this.

Task 6

On the St. John Ambulance website, research the steps you would take if someone had an asthma attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdVKpUR513M. Do the same for someone who has had a burn/scald and watch the following clip – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJmzB8YgS0. Complete a poster on each of these.

Task 7

On the St. John Ambulance website, watch the following clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxO5LvgqZe0, and research the steps you would take if someone was bleeding. Do the same for someone who is in shock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61urGQrmeNM. Complete a poster on each of these.

Students will find a Year 9 History course within the History folder on Moodle.

So far students have completed work on the following: the abolition of slavery, slavery rebellion, the fall of the British Empire and a case study on the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

During this half term (1 June – 17 July 2020) students will be focusing on studying a new topic: Power and the People which will build upon the work they have completed before the May half term holiday.

Students will be completing work on the rights of an individual in today’s society, how a political system works and how we are governed and comparing this with the rights of people in Medieval England. The students will focus on key events such as the signing of the Magna Carta, the creation of Parliament by Simon de Montfort and the Peasants’ Revolt to understand how people began to protest in order to get more rights. Miss Smith will also be providing the students with videoed explanations of some of the key concepts and events they will be studying this half term via the Moodle page.

Work is being regularly updated by Miss Smith and so students should ensure that they are accessing the Year 9 History course on a weekly basis. Each week’s work will be clearly labelled and within the folder will be a document with the tasks students should complete. Students should do their best to complete all work given. If they have a query, then they can contact their History teacher via their school email address. This work is particularly important for those students who will be studying GCSE History next year.

Students should continue to submit their work via our Moodle page as there will be a submission folder for each week’s work. Students can either complete their work electronically and submit it or they can take screen shots of their work and upload them via the submission folder.

If your son/daughter have any questions please ask them to email their subject teacher using the email at the top of the Moodle page.

Year 9 Computing

There are 10 weeks’ worth of work; details listed in the Moodle course: https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=421 

Students should be working towards completing their iDEA award (already started in class).

Submission to show weekly progress.

Content from cambridgescp.com, Book 1, Stage 8

Lesson 1

Translate ‘in arena’

Lesson 2

Translate ‘venatio’

Lesson 3

Practising the Language activities – vocabulary and noun-sorting

Lesson 4

Cultural research – gladiators and animal-fights

Update w/c 13 July 2020: For the last week’s Maths work, we have provided a summary set of questions with full worked solutions to summarise the new key topics that have been set on MyMaths and Dr Frost since Easter. This is to replace MyMaths and Dr Frost for the final week’s work. On the Maths Moodle page for Year 9/10 are copies of the booklet and solutions (also available below) and a hints and tips booklet to give some guidance on each topic. There are also some extra challenge questions with solutions for any students wanting additional work. The worksheet is split into sections for each topic and the questions get progressively more difficult within each section.

• 9F summary questions and answers (PDF)
• 9H summary questions and answers (PDF)

There is now a Moodle course entitled Yr9/10 Help videos that has the scheme of work since lockdown, help videos for each week and some extra worksheet resources. Please email Miss Alpin at ralpin@qehs.net with any suggestions for new videos.

• All classes in Years 9–11 now have accounts on DrFrostMaths.com and MyMaths.
• All classes in Years 9–11 will be set 4 hours of work by their Maths teacher per week.
• Work will be set every Monday by class teachers with a deadline 7 days later (1 week).
• Some classes (9q5,9q6 and 9e6) will also be given SumDog logins by their class teacher to access more specialised material.

Year 9

• 2 x hours of MyMaths per week
• 2 x hours of DrFrost per week

Students that are well will be expected to complete the work set on MyMaths and DrFrost. 

Unless unwell, students should aim to complete around 1 hour of maths per lesson. We would suggest sitting down at a table or desk with minimum distractions to try and ensure concentration. There are many more websites out there that students may wish to use in addition to our suggestions, but we would expect that all students will be using DrFrost and MyMaths in the first instance.

Often, questions online can be challenging when completed without doing some working out and therefore we would encourage students to have their book and a calculator at hand. Students can date and title lessons accordingly and take down any notes if necessary.

How to use MyMaths

Students will be allocated tasks on MyMaths by their class teacher every Monday. To find work, click on the ‘homework’ tab at the top left of the page.

Students must remember to click ‘mark’ and ‘save’ once they have completed a task so that their answers can be seen by their class teacher.

Class teachers will provide additional feedback after the deadline has passed and students can access this feedback on the ‘feed’ tab in the top left of the screen (beneath homework). Students can also work through lessons on MyMaths by using the search bar and class teachers will direct students to specific topics if and when needed.

How to use DrFrostmaths.com – any issues contact ralpin@qehs.net

Student username: firstnamesurname@qehs.net

Password: password (you will then be prompted to change this the first time you log in)

To access tasks click on work set. Here students can access any feedback on tasks they have completed as well. To get extra help click on the learn tab at the top to access videos on each topic.

Year 9 Music:

• Targeted listening work and technical terms.
• See Moodle page: MUSIC SEAGO, YEAR 9 MUSIC 2019-2020: https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=409

Year 9–10 Bridging Work 2020

Welcome to the course!

Please access Moodle for the work booklet to complete the following tasks. This is to be completed prior to your return to school.

Task 1

Skeletal system

Bones of the body: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxc34j6/revision/1

Functions of the skeleton: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxc34j6/revision/2

Task 2

Muscular system

Muscles of the body: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zct2hv4/revision/1

Antagonistic pairs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zct2hv4/revision/2

Task 3

Respiratory system

Pathway of air: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zy7d2p3/revision/1

Gaseous exchange: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zy7d2p3/revision/1

Task 4

Cardiac system

Structure of the heart: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zwvn39q/revision/1

The pathway of blood around the body: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zwvn39q/revision/1

Work for Years 9–11 can be found on Moodle. 

Students need to enrol on the course AQA GCSE Physics.

The course is divided into 5 sections.  Resources can be found in each folder for the course involved. 

Students in Year 9 should complete 1 hour of Physics each week. 

Year 9 Physics

There are documents in the folder for the current topic of study and the next topic. The documents in the folder are numbered. You should use the key points as a guide to the information you need for that lesson. Please make notes on the double page in the textbook. Answer the questions from the document. Answers for the textbook questions are available in the folder. 

Year 9

1. Energy Stores
2. Conservation of Energy
3. Energy and Work
4. Gravitational Potential Energy
5. Kinetic Energy & Elastic Energy
6. Energy Dissipation
7. Energy & Efficiency
8. Electrical Appliances
9. Energy & Power
10. Summary & Revision

• Answers to end of lesson questions
• End of chapter summary question answers
• Revision Question answers

Teaching content:

• Playlists on GCSE Pod
• Seneca Learning
• Video playlists on YouTube

Mental Well-being

https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=117

Advice and guidance to help you manage your mental health and wellbeing during this disruption to your learning.

Careers

https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=109

Use this opportunity to explore your career options so that you can succeed in the world of work.

Year 9 students will be using the Seneca Learning app. They can either register online at https://app.senecalearning.com/courses/sign-up or download the app and register. They will then need to use these links to join the class.

Mr Jones’ classes: https://app.senecalearning.com/dashboard/join-class/t025dwvkwv

Mr Hedley’s classes: https://app.senecalearning.com/dashboard/join-class/q7tjvx1zpe

They will need to check Seneca once a week to pick up their work.

Students will also need to access the Yr 9 RE Moodle course (no enrolment needed). This is the link: https://www.qehs.net/moodle2/course/view.php?id=45

Additional resources/videos/tasks will appear here.

Please click on the links below to view the Year 9 Spanish resources:

Lessons 1 – 4 (March/April)

• Lesson 1 (PDF)
• Lesson 2 (PDF)
• Lesson 3 (PDF)
• Lesson 4 (PDF)

From Easter to May

• General instructions for home learning lessons: Easter to May (PDF)

Year 9–10 Bridging Work 2020

Welcome to the course!

Within Sport Science throughout Years 10 and 11 you will do the following units of work:

Year 10

1. Applying principles of training (coursework unit)

2. Reducing the risk of sports injuries (exam unit)

Year 11

1. Sports nutrition (coursework unit)

2. Technology in sport (coursework unit)

Over the next few weeks you will be doing a number of research-based tasks to prepare you, for your first unit of work.

Task 1

When you go to the gym or train for any sport it is very important that you make progress. In order to get better, a performer uses something that is referred to as the ‘Principles of Training’.

There are 5 principles that you will need to research:

• Progression
• Specificity
• Reversibility/Regression
• Moderation
• Variance

Try to find out what each training principle is and how it is linked to training within a gym setting. Most aspects are linked to making improvements with the exception of reversibility/regression. If possible, type your work and save it to your computer. If this is not possible, hand-write your research.

Task 2

Please start by watching the following video. Only watch the first 6 minutes.

FITT Principle (this is the video link in case the hyperlink doesn’t work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHntMdrf_4s)

You now need to complete the following table:

Task 3

Components of Fitness

There are 7 different components of fitness that you need to learn about:

1. Strength
2. Power
3. Agility
4. Balance
5. Flexibility
6. Muscular endurance
7. Cardiovascular endurance

For each component of fitness, you need to find a definition, and give sporting examples of when that component would be used. Please make sure you fully explain your answers.

For example, ‘A footballer needs flexibility’ is not good enough. A football goalkeeper needs flexibility to be able to reach for the ball when someone strikes a ball in the top corner. (This is a detailed example)

Task 4

PAR Q

Before anyone can join a gym, they should fill in a form called a PAR Q. This stands for ‘Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire’.

I would like you to use the internet or your phone to find three different examples of a PAR Q form. Look at what information the form asks for, if possible print one out and fill it in.

When the form has been completed, consider the following points:

• Why do you think it is important that the form is filed in?
• As a client, why would it be important to tell the truth on the form?
• Can you think of any settings other than a gym who might use this or a similar form?

Task 5

Fitness Tests

There are lots of different fitness tests that can be carried out to assess how fit an individual is. In lessons you will be expected to take part in the following fitness tests:

Standing broad jump – this test measures power.

Standing stork test – this test measures balance.

Sit and reach test – this test measures flexibility.

30 second sit up test – this test measures muscular endurance.

The multistage fitness test – this test measures cardiovascular endurance.

Illinois agility test – this test measures agility.

Trunk Dynamometer test – this test measures strength. (You might need to search for arm, leg and back dynamometer).