Key Stage 3 – School Years 7 – 9
Key Stage 3 includes children in school years 7 to 9. We run separate groups for each school year for English and Maths.
Science lessons including Biology, Chemistry and Physics are available too.
English and Maths
To ensure your child is given the maximum attention, classes have six students maximum and are grouped by year. This 41-week program follows all topics and methods taught in the new National Curriculum syllabus.
English |
Mathematics |
| Fluency in reading and writing | Numbers – negative numbers, standard form, indices etc. |
| Comprehension and best practice techniques | Operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, BODMAS |
| Creative Writing in first and third person | Fractions, Decimals and Percentages |
| Fiction and non-fiction writing using creative language – letters, instructions, recounts and biographies | Measurement – time, length, weight, capacity and money, including conversions |
| Literature – Shakespeare and novels set in the 1900s | Algebra |
| Poetry writing and analysis of techniques | Geometry and space |
| Persuasive writing – balanced arguments, advertisements and letters | Data handling – bar and line graphs, Venn and Carroll diagrams, probability and statistics |
| Essay writing – PEE structure | Identifying properties of 2D and 3D shapes, transformations, reflection and rotation |
Science
To ensure your child is given the maximum attention, classes have six students maximum and are grouped by year. This 41-week program follows all topics and methods taught in the new National Curriculum syllabus.
Biology |
Chemistry |
Physics |
| Microscope, cells and respiration | Solids, liquids and gases | Energy transfer and heating |
| Nutrition and digestion | Particle theory and physical change | Energy resources and cost of electricity |
| Skeleton and muscular system | Atoms, elements and compounds | Speed and distance-time graphs |
| Breathing and gas exchange | The periodic table | Forces and motion |
| Human reproductive system and pregnancy | Mixtures and separation techniques | Moments |
| Drugs | Properties of materials | Waves and wave properties |
| Plant nutrition and reproduction | Chemical reactions | Light, colour and how we see |
| Food chains and food webs | Acids and alkalis | Sound and hearing |
| Dependence | Reactivity series | Series and parallel circuits |
| DNA and inheritance | Chemical reactions | Static electricity |
| Variation and natural selection | The earth’s structure and rock types | Magnets and electromagnets |
| The atmosphere | The sun, stars and gravity | |
| Carbon cycle | Day, night and seasons |