Year 8 Drama

In year 8 Drama students will continue to work on their Script writing for the first part of the term. Students have been learning about the genre “Children’s Theatre” and are creating their own stories which they will perform later in the term.

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete 2 assessment task this term.

1. Forming task – Script – Due week 3
2. Performing task – Children’s Theatre performance + written evaluation – Due week 9

Year 8 Food Studies

The study of food is a fascinating exploration of science, industry, history, law and eating! This unit provides information about safe practices, basic knowledge of the Food Technology room and equipment, and a quick overview of the processing of food in industry. 

The main aim of this unit is to enable students to develop basic culinary skills and a basic understanding of nutrition and healthy eating principles so that they can build confidence when working in the kitchen to design, prepare and make a range of well-balanced food products that would be suitable for them to make for themselves and others. 

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete 2 assessment task this term.

1. Practical Exam – week 8
2. Design process – Due week 9

8 Media

This term students will focus on their production skills by creating an animation using Adobe Animate based off what they have planned last term in their design briefs. When they are not in the computer lab, they will be using cameras and objects around them to create a stop motion animation project that can be a segment of the narrative in their design brief, or a new one.  

Assessment and Key Dates:

Storyboards for stop motion complete: Week 2
Animation Check in (both Animate and stop motion): Week 5

Final Animation check in: Week 7
Final submission of Adobe Animate and stop motion assessment: Week8-9

Year 8 Visual Art

Students will explore and evaluate erasure through responding to artists who have used erasure in their art across cultures, times and places.   They will identify and analyse how other artists like Lucienne Rickard use the visual conventions of line, texture, shape, movement emphasis and balance to create observational drawings of endangered, vulnerable and extinct animals, applying this knowledge in their art making.  Students will communicate messages associated with sustainability and biodiversity through manipulating drawing techniques and processes such as blind contour and contour drawing, stippling, hatching and cross hatching. They will reflect on and explain how an artwork is displayed to enhance its meaning and use this knowledge in planning their own display to further their message about sustainability and biodiversity. 

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete two components of one task:

1. Artist statement outlining display concept – Due week 9
2. Drawing – Due week 9

Year 9
Creative Industries Subject Overview  

Year 9 Dance

This term students will complete their responding task. They have been working on the theory component of dance one lesson per week over the last term. This has been an opportunity for students to deepen their knowledge of the elements of dance. Students will hand in their podcast review of a contemporary dance week early in week 2. Year 9 dancers will then move on to choreograph their own dance routines where they will get to explore and manipulate the elements to depict an emotion.  

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete 2 assessment task this term.

1. Responding task – Podcast recording – Due week 2
2. Choreography task – Contemporary Dance routine + written choreographic intent – Due week 9

Year 9 Design Manufacturing Technology (DMT)

This term students will investigate emerging materials and their impact on design decisions, students will identify the steps involved in planning the production of a Ukulele. Students will develop a detailed project management plan including a sequence of time cost and action plan to manage safety in the workshop.

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete 2 assessment task.

1. Production Plan – How to create a Ukulele – process, safety, cost – Due week 6
2. Practical Product – Creating a Ukulele – Due week 9

Year 9 Design Engineering Technology (DET)

This unit students will investigate and make judgement on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to create engineered solutions. Students will be assessed on investigating and designing, producing and implementing, evaluating, collaboration and management. This term students will also explore Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre in week 7 for a class excursion.

Assessment & Key Dates:
Students in this subject will complete 2 assessment task.

1. Exam – Aerodynamics – Week 4
2. Engineering Report – Due week 9 (draft week 8)

Year 9 Food Studies

The last unit looked at food and health, focusing on the role food plays in the body. This unit builds on this information, and looks at food choices and the impact of poor nutrition on health and wellbeing. Food supplies nutrients, which allow the body to function and develop from infancy to adulthood. Poor food selection may result in problems that can affect your way of life. Making good food choices can be difficult, as there is an abundance of food available. In this unit, you will examine the factors that contribute to good nutrition and learn to make healthy food choices.​

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete 2 assessment task this term.

1. Practical Exam – week 7
2. Design process – Due week 8

Year 9 Visual Art

Extending on from their Memento Mori studies, students focus on the acquisition of skills and the learning of art making techniques used in ceramics. Students will explore the visual conventions of form, space, texture, contrast and pattern in expressing their understanding of the joy of life in sculpting a ceramic skull. 

Assessment & Key Dates: Students in this subject will complete two assessment tasks:

1. Short Response Exam
2. Ceramic Skull Making task