Name:

Year 7

Virtual Transition Day

Workbook

Heathcote School and

Science College

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Welcome

Good morning,

I would like to welcome you to your virtual transition day. Unfortunately, due to current circumstances

we cannot meet you in person, however we will endeavour to do so at the earliest opportunity. I

would like to take this moment to reassure you that we are working very hard to ensure that your

start to your secondary school adventure is as smooth and exciting as possible. We have provided

a variety of live and pre-recorded sessions for you to engage with from home. We will bring the

school to your home and hopefully provide you with an insight into what lessons will be like when

we welcome you through our doors.

The timetable is our recommended format to follow for the day but you do not need to follow this

exactly.

In this booklet you will find a number of useful resources and activities that will help guide you

through the day. You will also receive a booklet of subject specific activities for you to complete over

the summer.

I hope you enjoy your virtual transition day and hopefully we will meet in person very soon.

Have a fantastic day and an enjoyable summer!

All the best,

Miss Clancey and Mr Gallacher

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Timetable of the Day

Activity

9.30am Live Assembly with Ms Clancey

Virtual Tour of the School

Maths with Ms Hyde

English with Ms Kee-Rose

Science with Dr Tsui

British Sign Language (BSL) with Ms Mattison

DT – Food Technology with Mr Dolan

MFL Spanish or French with Ms Watson or Ms Collins

Japanese Language Club with Dr Tsui

Creative Arts – Music with Ms Argyrakis

Physical Education with Mr French

2.00pm Live message from the Head Teacher Ms Hillman

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Map of the School- Main Building

PE

Science

Maths

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Map of the School- Humanities Building

Offices

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Virtual Maths Lesson

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Virtual English Lesson

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Virtual Science Lesson

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Virtual British Sign Language Lesson

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Virtual DT Food Tech Lesson

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Virtual MFL Lesson

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Virtual Japanese Lesson

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Virtual Creative Arts Lesson

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Virtual Physical Education Lesson

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Year 7 Summer

Workbook

Heathcote School and

Science College

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Transition Work

We hope that you have found our virtual transition day helpful and that the

lessons have provided you with an insight into what studying at Heathcote will be

like for you next year. In order to help you with your transition from primary school to secondary

some of your teachers have been busy creating some transition work for you.

Subjects included:

English

Maths

Science

Design and Technology

Physical Education

PSHCRE

Geography

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English

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English

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Maths

Simplifying Fractions

To get the fraction in its simplest form we divide both the numerator and denominator by their highest

common factor (HCF). We must make sure there are no other common factors between our numerator

and denominator to ensure it is fully simplified:

Thinking task:

Based on our learning, can we think of a definition of a simplified fraction?

What are some of it’s key characteristics?

Some examples and non-examples have been filled in for you.

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Design Technology

Using the bank of tools provided, match the description to the tool name. Your red hot

challenge is to research the tool and draw a diagram of each one in the box provided.

Tool Bank: Bradawl – Coping Saw – Hammer – Wood File

Abrasive surface use to smooth materials Curved lines can be cut using this tool

Quality control tool used to make indents Used to strike nails into timber

Design Brief…

Your task is to design pencil holder to hold one pencil. The product should be made out of

interesting materials. The pencil should be functional and well designed.

Product Analysis…

Use the questions to analyse the effectiveness of these existing pencil holder products.

What is good about this product’s aesthetics?

What is innovative about this product?

Is this a sustainable product design?

How would you improve this product?

Design Solutions…

On a separate piece of paper, produce two design ideas that would meet the key points of the design

brief; you may want to add annotated notes to explain your ideas and perhaps even a catchy name!

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Evaluation…

Use the questions below to evaluate the success of your practical outcome.

- Which design ideas meets the brief most successfully? Please explain your answer.

- What parts of your design might be difficult to manufacture?

- Can you list some of the tools and equipment that might be needed to make your best design idea?

Please present your ideas to your teacher when you start in September, we would love to see them!

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Physical Education

The skeletal system TASK With another member of your household, label the bones with pieces of paper and selotape. Extension: Without looking at the diagram on the left, can how many bones can you recall?

Warm up There are three stages to a warm up. 1 – Pulse raiser (this increased the number of times your heart beats per minute). 2. Dynamic stretches (these are stretches that are completed whilst moving e.g. lunges. This helps to prevent ‘pulling a muscle’. 3. A sport/skill related activity. This should be linked to the main session e.g. in football, this could be completing passes with a partner.

TASK Complete a pulse raiser and measure your heart rate. Your pulse raiser could be high knees on the spot for 90 seconds. Extension: Complete some dynamic stretches from the list below- Lunges Squats Heel flicks Side steps

Movement at a joint Flexion – bending a joint. This occurs when the angle of a joint decreases. For example, the elbow flexes when performing a biceps curl. The knee flexes in preparation for kicking a ball. Extension – straightening a joint. This occurs when the angle of a joint increases, for example the elbow when throwing a shot put. The take-off knee extends when a high-jumper takes off (the other knee is flexed).

TASK Thinking about the elbow and knee, list sporting actions when flexion and extension would occur.

Extension:

Research what is meant by the term ‘hyperextension’.

The muscular system TASK With another member of your household, label the muscles with pieces of paper and selotape. Extension: Without looking at the diagram on the left, how many muscles can you recall?

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PSHCRE

PSHCRE is short for Personal, Social, Health, Citizenship, Religious

Education.

Activity 1 – Your Values

Here is a list of 9 values. You should write them into the diamond shape so

that the most important is at the top, second most important is on the

second row and the least important is at the bottom.

You can’t get this wrong because it is your opinion.

Being good at sport Having a belief in god(s) Being successful at school

Earning lots of money Having creativity such as

music or art Being a leader

Achieving a good work/life balance

Appreciating differences in people

Having lots of friends

1. This is at the top because…

2. This is at the bottom because…

3. This activity has made me think that…

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Geography

What is a map?

Task: using the internet research the four types of map listed below and use your research to

complete the questions.

Map 1: Political world map

Map 2: Ordnance survey map

Map 3: Weather map

Map 4: Relief map

Question 1: Can you draw a sketch of the map.

Question 2: What does it show?

Question 3: Does it have symbols? Why?

Question 4: Why would we use this map?

Question 5: Could it ever change?

A map is a representation of the Earth's surface in a particular place. It shows how things are linked to each other by distance, direction and size. Maps are a way of showing many things

about the Earth's surface on a flat piece of paper that can be carried and transported easily or viewed electronically.

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A message from current Year 7 students…

School is all about achieving

your full potential. Our

teachers will help with that.

Aakifah

I really liked English as we do

poetry and because they don’t

just give us poems and tell us to

read them and then answer the

questions, they make us read a

poem from a student based on a

theme then they make us write

one ourselves.

Aasim

‘Secondary School is the

restart of Primary School

making new friends and

finishing it off with your

GCSE Test’

Ackshaiyan

Trust me, I know you are a

little bit frightened at the

moment but there honestly is

nothing to be afraid of.

Everyone here is so friendly,

polite and helpful.

Ahmad

The most important thing

about secondary school is

making sure you have all your

equipment and uniform

organised.

Ellie-Mae

Heathcote is a fun and exciting

school, the lessons are always

intriguing and the teachers are

helpful and nice. All of the children

made me feel very welcome and

were very friendly.

Lewis

The first week here at

Heathcote can be scary and

you may feel nervous to start

off with, but as the days go on

you will find your way around.

Osman

The buildings are not as

complicated as they look and

don’t worry if you get lost

because there are always

teachers in the corridors to

help guide you.

Devran

The work to start off with was

quite hard but it gets easier as

time goes on and the teachers

are always really helpful.

Gabriel

The work to start off with was

quite hard but it gets easier as

time goes on and the teachers

are always really helpful.

Gabriel

Heathcote is an amazing

school which provides many

opportunities. If you ever

need to talk to someone or

need some help we have

some incredible teachers that

are always there to help.

Maria

A warm welcome and lots of good

wishes on becoming part of our

school Heathcote. Congratulations

and on behalf of all the students

here. We are all happy and excited

about you entering a whole new

chapter here. There are many

things to enjoy such as clubs

assessment week trips and a

whole load more.

Fatima

I know changing schools is

hard but you have so many

good things to look forward

to here. Science is my

favourite lesson you get to

do really cool experiments.

Reece

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