Content
| Year 7 | Year 7 explore the content specified by the National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. The curriculum is designed to challenge and stretch students and builds upon their Key Stage 2 knowledge and application. Year 7 study the following topic units: Number Skills Analysing and Displaying Data Expressions and Formulae Decimals and Measures Angles and Lines Fractions Percentages Proportional Reasoning Sequences Probability Real Life Graphs Preparing for Year 8 |
| Year 8 | Year 8 explore the content specified by the National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. The curriculum is designed to challenge and stretch students and builds upon their knowledge and application. Number Skills Working with Powers Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Equations and inequalities Functions and Graphs 2D Shapes and 3D Solids Formulae and Compound Measures Ratio and Scale Transformations Probability |
| Year 9 | Year 9 explore the content specified by the National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. The curriculum is designed to challenge and stretch students and builds upon their knowledge and application. Number Skills – Accuracy and Measures Powers, Roots and Standard Form Analysing Data Polygons and Angles Circles Fractions and Percentages Pythagoras Trigonometry Expressions and Quadratics Ratio and Proportion Transformations |
Assessment (including homework)
| Year 7 | Students complete regular homework throughout Years 7, 8 and 9. These are designed to consolidate content from within the classroom and allow for early identification of areas of concern. Throughout the year, students will complete written assessments, which will relate to work they have recently undertaken. At the end of the year, students will sit an examination testing all of the content from Key Stage 3. This will produce an end of year profile of the students’ strengths and areas for development and guide intervention. |
| Year 8 | Students complete regular homework throughout Years 7, 8 and 9. These are designed to consolidate content from within the classroom and allow for early identification of areas of concern. Throughout the year, students will complete written assessments, which will relate to work they have recently undertaken. At the end of the year, students will sit an examination testing all of the content from Key Stage 3. This will produce an end of year profile of the students’ strengths and areas for development and guide intervention. |
| Year 9 | Students complete regular homework throughout Years 7, 8 and 9. These are designed to consolidate content from within the classroom and allow for early identification of areas of concern. Throughout the year, students will complete written assessments, which will relate to work they have recently undertaken. At the end of the year, students will sit an examination testing all of the content from Key Stage 3. This will produce an end of year profile of the students’ strengths and areas for development and guide intervention. |
How to support your daughter
If you are finding that your daughter is having difficulty, the following bullet points are suggestions of things to try:
- Encourage her to speak to her friends first; perhaps they can work on the problem together.
- Encourage her to speak to any maths teacher, or see a maths teacher as a group with her friends.
- Encourage her to attend maths club on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday lunchtime from 1:25-1:55pm in S7.
- Encourage her to visit the learning base to ask for help.
- Try visiting the school VLE or these websites for help: BBC Bitesize Khan Academy
- Above all, be supportive of your daughter. Do not say “I couldn’t do it either”.
- It is not “I can’t do it!”, it is “I can’t do it YET!”
- Encourage her to attend maths club on a Monday or Thursday lunchtime in S7.