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04·Schemes of work

A year, sequenced — not a list of good projects

For curriculum leads and heads of department

Six half-termly units an academic year, each written backwards from what the next year states it assumes on entry. One row per lesson rather than a page per lesson — enough to teach from, and little enough that a department can actually keep it up. Every unit maps to the statutory programme of study, and the first eight pages of each open here so you can read a real unit before you buy.

English

Key stage 3 · 3 years

Cover of Year 7 English

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 English

Six half-termly units across one academic year, covering all four strands of the programme of study. Reading opens the year because writing improves fastest in students who have just read closely, and spoken English closes it because it draws on everything the other five units build.

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Character and Inference
  2. 1b Writing to Describe and Narrate
  3. 2a Poetry: Voice, Image and Sound
  4. 2b Introducing Shakespeare
  5. 3a Myths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
  6. 3b Non-fiction, Argument and Spoken English

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 34 pages, 8 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Cover of Year 8 English

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 8 English

Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. The year adds the three things Year 9 assumes: comparison, control of register for a named audience, and sustained reading of pre-1900 prose.

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Theme and Writer's Purpose
  2. 1b Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade
  3. 2a Poetry: Comparing Voices
  4. 2b Shakespeare: Power and Consequence
  5. 3a The Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
  6. 3b Media, Bias and the Language of Persuasion

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 34 pages, 8 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 9 English

Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes — a whole nineteenth-century novel, a whole Shakespeare play, comparison across periods, structured creative writing, viewpoint writing and a formal spoken assessment — is met here first, with no marks attached.

  1. 1a The Nineteenth-Century Novel
  2. 1b Creative Writing: Craft and Control
  3. 2a Poetry: Power, Identity and Protest
  4. 2b Shakespeare: A Whole Play
  5. 3a Literature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
  6. 3b Spoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 8 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Mathematics

Key stage 3 · 3 years

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Mathematics · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 Mathematics

Six half-termly units across one academic year. Algebraic thinking opens the year deliberately, directed number precedes fractions, and equations come after both. Each unit states the prerequisite it cannot run without.

  1. 1a Sequences, Notation and Equivalence
  2. 1b Place Value and Directed Number
  3. 2a Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
  4. 2b Expressions and Solving Equations
  5. 3a Ratio and Proportion
  6. 3b Lines, Angles and Data

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 mathematics (DfE, 2013) · 34 pages, 8 sections · For heads of mathematics, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Mathematics · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 8 Mathematics

Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. Probability appears here, as Year 7's coverage note promised, with fractions a year old.

  1. 1a Proportional Reasoning: Rates and Change
  2. 1b Linear Relationships and Graphs
  3. 2a Indices, Primes and the Structure of Number
  4. 2b Area, Volume and Surface Area
  5. 3a Probability
  6. 3b Algebraic Manipulation: Brackets and Factorising

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 mathematics (DfE, 2013) · 30 pages, 8 sections · For heads of mathematics, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Mathematics · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 9 Mathematics

Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes on day one — algebraic fluency, trigonometry, financial mathematics, comparing distributions, similarity and sustained reasoning — is met here first, without grades attached.

  1. 1a Algebra: Rearranging, Inequalities and Simultaneous
  2. 1b Pythagoras and Trigonometry
  3. 2a Percentages, Growth and Financial Mathematics
  4. 2b Statistics: Comparing Distributions
  5. 3a Transformations, Congruence and Similarity
  6. 3b Reasoning, Proof and Multi-step Problems

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 mathematics (DfE, 2013) · 32 pages, 8 sections · For heads of mathematics, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Art & Design

Key stage 3 · 3 years

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Art & Design · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 Art & Design

Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from what Year 8 states it assumes on entry. Year 7 establishes the formal elements, the colour wheel, first paint and print handling, informal clay, and the habit of keeping the working-out.

  1. 1a The Formal Elements: Line, Shape and Tone
  2. 1b Colour and Texture
  3. 2a Pattern, Symmetry and Printing
  4. 2b Telling Stories: Art Before Writing
  5. 3a Clay: Natural Forms
  6. 3b Artists and Me

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (DfE, 2013) · 32 pages, 8 sections · For heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Year 8 Art & Design

Six half-termly units across one academic year, sequenced so each builds what the next assumes. Year 7 establishes the formal elements; this year builds the breadth of media and the historical range the key stage requires.

  1. 1a Colour and Paint
  2. 1b The Human Figure and Face
  3. 2a Pattern Across Cultures: Ancient to Modern
  4. 2b Relief Printmaking
  5. 3a Clay and the Vessel
  6. 3b Artist Study and Personal Response

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (DfE, 2013) · 32 pages, 8 sections · For heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Year 9 Art & Design

Six half-termly units across one academic year, each building something the next one assumes — ending with an independent personal response that rehearses how a 14–16 course actually works.

  1. 1a Structures & Still Life
  2. 1b Portraiture & Identity
  3. 2a Surrealism & the Subconscious
  4. 2b Pop Art & Printmaking
  5. 3a 3D & Sculpture: Natural Forms
  6. 3b GCSE / IGCSE Taster — Personal Response

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 8 sections · For heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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9 schemes across 3 subjects so far, each built to the same shape. Science and geography are next. If you want one for your own subject, say which and it moves up the list.