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Home Learning Booklet

Year 7 Summer Term 2014

Harrow Way Community School

Harrow Way Community School Andover

Your Home Learning: Summer 2014 We have made some changes to Home Learning which we believe will encourage your child to make the most of their learning. From April 2013 the Core subjects will continue to set homework weekly. In English homework will be set weekly and may take a variety of forms: research, reading, learning spellings, revision or written work. In addition to homework, students may be required to prepare information or questions required for the next topic. In Maths homework will take various forms. The most common will be mixed question worksheets requiring written answers with full workings shown and computer tasks set using the My-maths website. In addition homework may be set on a specific topic requiring written solutions, mathematical investigations, functional skills tasks or on revision leading up to assessments. In Science students will receive some weekly written homework but also some project style tasks which will last a period of approximately 3 weeks. In French weekly homework tasks will be set and may involve practice or revision of any of the four key skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing. All of your homework should be recorded in your planner and your teacher will put it on to Show My Homework along with any support. This booklet contains all your home learning tasks for the summer term. It should give you a clear idea of what has been set and when it should be completed and handed in. The tasks will be varied with an emphasis on extended study and independent research. Managing Your time Each subject has set an extended Home Learning task that should take three to four hours to complete over a three week period. We want you to become self-managers. A good self-manager can organise their time, prioritise tasks and work to deadlines(all essential life skills). To help with this we have staggered the tasks so that you only have to hand in a maximum of two at any one time. The timetable below shows exactly when each home learning task is to be undertaken. N.B You should only complete the D&T home learning that is relevant to the subject(s) you are studying this term so do not do all three of Graphics, Resistant Materials and Food Technology

Year 7 Summer

21 April

28 April

5 May

12 May

19 May

2 June

9 June

16 June

23 June

30 June

7 July

14 July

Geography H

History H r

DT H r

Art H r

Drama H r

Music H r

ICT H r

Dance r

KEY Grey boxes - work on your home learning during these weeks. Don’t leave it until the last minute! H – Hand your Home Learning in to your subject teacher during the lesson (s) you have with them that week. r: your Home Learning will normally be marked and returned during this week. Your Home Learning Tasks Each Home Learning task has detailed instructions on:

What you are expected to do

How to complete the task

Where to find help

Remember you can always ask your teacher if you need help with your home learning.

Your Marks All Home Learning Tasks will be marked using the schools A O B policy A – An outstanding piece of Home Learning, showing that you fulfilled or exceeded the time expected to complete it and gave it your best efforts. It is a piece of work that exceeds your targeted level. O – A good, sound piece of Home Learning showing you have fulfilled the time expected to complete it and it is at your expected level.

B – A disappointing piece of work which looks as though not enough time was spent and/or you didn’t work hard enough on it and it is below the level I would have expected from you. On occasions teachers may also add a National Curriculum Level to the work. A note to your parents Copies of this booklet are available on our website www.harrowway.hants.sch.uk via the parent links tab and on the school VLE If you have questions about the new Home Learning tasks, please do contact the relevant Head of department at the school by telephoning 01264 364533. In addition if you would like to give feedback please do come to the termly Parents’ forum meetings with the Headteacher. Home Learning Order

Start Subject Hand in during the subject lesson during the week of

21 April Music 5 May

28 April Drama 12 May

12 May Art 2 June

19 May ICT 9 June

2 June History 16 June

16 June DT 30 June

09 June Danc3 23 June

30 June Geography 14 July

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Geography Year 7 Summer Term

Charlton Lakes

NC Level: All Levels

By the end of this task you will have:

Created a visitor’s guide to Charlton lakes

By the end of this task you will know:

The way that Charlton lakes is used by local people and how it could be used in the future.

How to complete the task:

1. .Use your class work and field work to draw maps of Charlton Lakes

2. Describe the human and physical features of Charlton Lakes

3. Explain how people use Charlton Lakes and how they have changed it

Exceptional Home Learning may include:

Your own thoughts on how the lakes could be better used

Any conflicts that arise over the use of the lakes

Annotated diagrams and photographs of the lakes

Where to find help:

Exercise book and teacher

Notes from your field work

Websites

History - Year 7 Summer Term

Local History Project

NC Level: <All Levels>


Researched Andover’s history and chosen a topic to do your project on

Produced a project on an area or piece of local History


About areas local to Andover and what happened to them in the past


1. Research areas of local history and choose what you are going to do your project on

2. Decide how you are going to produce your project

3. Further research your area of local History and produce a detailed and informative project on it – this could be a poster, booklet, leaflet, PP presentation, magazine etc.


Examples of primary sources to do with your local history topic

A wealth of information about the area and its history

Where to find help:

Ask your teacher for help in finding sources

Google your local area

Use books in the local or school library

Music Year 7 Summer Term

Writing Music



Created music scores showing correct annotation


How to write each note and musical symbol

Understand what each symbol represents


1. Follow the activities on the worksheet carefully and complete all writing tasks on

the stave


Producing your own short composition using a combination of the notes you have learnt.

Where to find help:

Websites

Your class teacher

Theory

This unit of work will help you to be able to write down any music that you create. Almost all music that is created is written down in some form or another. This work sheet focuses on the use of musical notation and how to start writing down your music. You will need a pencil a ruler and a pencil rubber as well as a blank manuscript sheet. All written music that uses western notation is written on a stave. The stave tells us a number of pieces of information Key Signature

Treble Clef Time Signature Treble Clef – This tells the general pitch ie High or low, in this case it indicate a high pitch. Key Signature – How many sharp notes or flat notes are used in the music Time Signature – How many beats in the bar. Exercise 1. On your manuscript sheet practice drawing a treble clef. Look carefully at the example below to see the shape of the treble clef and where it starts.

Complete 1 line of treble clefs for practice. Like the example below

Each piece of music is divided up into blocks called bars.

Bar Barline Exercise 2 Using a pencil and a ruler divide one staff into four equal bars, (don’t forget to add in the treble clef at the beginning) Lines and Spaces Each of the lines and each of the spaces refer to a specific note. The spaces are the note F A C and E

F A C E The lines are the notes E G B D F

E G B D F Exercise 3. On separate staves draw in each of the notes of the lines and the spaces, you do not need to add barlines, but don’t forget to add in the treble clef at the beginning. Exercise 4

Copy scale and the tune below and write correct letter underneath each note. Scale

Tune


Professional standard presentation

Evidence of wide research

Resistant Materials Year 7 Summer term

Workshop Tools and Design



An understanding of the design requirements for a pull along toy.

A better knowledge of workshop tools


The names of common workshop tools

What factors must be taken into account when designing a pull along toy.


1. Start by completing the sheet on workshop tools using the internet to help you if

needs be.

2. Consider the key requirements for the design of a pull along toy and find examples

to illustrate them

3. Using this information and knowledge answer the evaluation question about the

pull along toy on the sheet


Examples of how you might improve the designs you have chosen

A critical evaluation of why they meet the design specification or why they do not

Where to find help:

Your class teacher

The internet

Research Task: Workshop Tools

You may need to use the internet to help you complete the

worksheet below. Complete the worksheet by drawing the tool or

writing its name and then explain what the tool is used for and

how you would use the tool safely.

Tool Name What is it used for? How is it used?

Coping Saw

Product Analysis Task: Wooden Toys for Children

You may either use the internet or take cut outs from magazines

to complete the worksheet below.

Appearance, Customer, Cost, Environment, Size, Safety, Function,

Materials

Image of Product Analysis using

ACCESS FM

Why you chose

this product

Colourful and

friendly, designed

for toddlers, costs

£5, 200mm long, no

small parts, pull

along toy, pine

I chose this

product because I

like…

Evaluation Task: Pull Along Toy

Specification:

Must be colourful and child-friendly

Must be safe for a child to use (no sharp edges or choking

hazards)

Must be easy to use – suitable for a child to understand and

use/play with

Using the short specification above, look at the product below

and explain whether or not the product meets the specification

above and why.

Graphics Year 7 Summer Term

Stained Glass



Designed your own ‘Stained Glass’ panel to meet an exact specification.


How stained glass is made and where it is used

How to construct a design reflecting your personal interests


1. Complete a moodboard showing images about your interests and aspirations

2. Research Stained Glass and explain how it is made and where it is used

3. Design your own stained glass panel to meet the specification on the worksheet

below


Detailed knowledge of the production process and usage of stained glass

Exceptionally detailed personal design matching the specification

Where to find help:

Your class teacher

The internet

Refine your idea and draw / render it in the box labelled ‘Best Idea’.

Now show this to 3 friends and ask them to suggest an improvement each.

Best Idea

Friend 1

Friend 2

Friend 3

• Your design must be simple and reflect your interests or personality.

• The maximum size of acrylic is 110mm x 110mm.

• No small sections!

• The lead is 6mm wide.

Example,

Initial Stained Glass Design

Try rendering the example to look like coloured glass,

ICT Year 7 Summer Term

Using Artwork in ICT

National Curriculum Levels – n/a


Created a poster advertising a new Simpsons style cartoon family show on a computer


How to use and apply appropriate software to create a poster on a computer


1. Investigate which software will be best for you to use

2. Decide on a name for your show (Why not do what Simpsons creator Matt Groenig

did and base them on your own family

3. Include a Mum, Dad, two children and a pet and design your poster


Original innovative use of the software to fulfill task

Where to find help:

.You may use Adobe Fireworks, Illustrator or Photoshop

You may need to plan to complete this work at lunchtime or after school if you do not have the appropriate software at home

Food Technology - Year 7 Summer Term

Food Safety

NC Level: 3-7


Completed research on Bacteria

Written a report to demonstrate your learning.


The different bacteria associated with food safety

How to prevent these bacteria strains contaminating your food.


identify the main types of bacteria associated with food poisoning

1. – Salmonella 2. Staphylococcus Aureu

3. – Campylobacter 4. Clostridium Perfringes

5. - E. coli 6. Listeria Monocytogenes

Where would you find them? E.g Chicken eggs etc.

How could you catch them? E.g. Eating raw chicken.

What are the symptoms? How do you know you have caught it?

How can you prevent them?

You need to do a front cover, contents page and about one page for each of these different bacteria.


Research HACCP and what it means

How does HACCP protect against Food Risks

Where to find help:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Food-poisoning/Pages/Introduction.aspx

http://www.food.gov.uk/policy-advice/microbiology/

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Food-poisoning/Pages/Introduction.aspx

http://www.food.gov.uk/policy-advice/microbiology/

Drama Year 7 Summer Term

Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations programme

NC Level: n/a


Created your own theatre programme for an ALL STAR performance of Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations


What information and images are found on the front of a theatre programme.

What information a theatre programme must contain.


1. Research the correct format for a theatre programme.

2. Create an image for the front cover of your progamme.

3. Pick a cast for your production. Imagine that money is no object – you can cast any actors in the world to play the characters in ‘Ernie’. Who would you cast?

4. Pick a sponsor for your production. What company would want to advertise in your programme?

5. Finally, create your own programme using at least one sheet of A4 paper (landscape), folded in half to create a booklet.


A professional looking programme that has all the correct features. This may include images, adverts and information about the play.

Where to find help:

www.johngood.com/blog/nothing-amateur.aspx - Programme Covers

www.rare-gravy.co.uk/theatre-programmes.html - Theatre Programmes

Your script of Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations

http://www.johngood.com/blog/nothing-amateur.aspx

http://www.rare-gravy.co.uk/theatre-programmes.html

Summer Term ART RESEARCH

(Collect an Art Pack from your Art Teacher)



Learned about how an artist works (Artist given to you by your Art Teacher)

Gathered images of artworks by an artist and researched information on him/her

By the end of this task you will :

Be familiar with the work of an artist

Have enough information to present two pages in your sketchbook

Be able to create your own artwork which is influenced by the artist


1. Collect your information pack from your Art Teacher to help you

2. Bring in all research work to next lesson

3. Get instructions on how to complete the task from your Teacher


Writing a detailed description of one of the artworks collected in research, using a writing frame

Where to find help:

Websites and further information will be given to you by your teacher

Dance Year 7 Summer Term

Dance Evaluation



• Written a clear and thorough evaluation of your dance performance.


• What your strengths and weaknesses as a performer are.


1. Watch the video of your dance performance.

2. Complete the evaluation sheet provided.


• Using a range of dance vocabulary.

• Suggesting how to improve by setting achievable goals.

Where to find help:

• Teacher

• Notes from the video

• Vocabulary handout

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