Logos School Curriculum - Grade 8
Mathematics- Textbooks
- Mathslinks Y8 Students' Book C (9780199152933)
- Mathslinks: Y8 Homework Book C (9780199152995)
- Casio Fx-85Gtplus Scientific Calculator (Solar) (9781973000334)
- Assesment: Tests (65% of mark)
-tests will be given regularly
-approximately 6 tests each term
-vocabulary and grammar tests are given once the relevant topic has been completed.
-the student's ability to orally enforce what has been taught is also assessed.
-tests constitute 65%
-classwork, homework and projects constitute 35%
Homework (35% of mark)
-homework will be set at end of every lesson and will be checked during the following lesson
- Term 1: NUMBER Integers: Negative numbers, Factors & Primes, LCM & HCF, Square & Cube Roots, Indices
Fractions, Decimals & Percentages: Fractions Adding-Subtracting-Multiplying-Dividing, Percentage change, Converting between all three
ALGEBRA Expressions & Formulae: Indices, Collecting like terms including powers, Expanding brackets, Factorising, Formulae including rearranging
GEOMETRY Measures: Metric, Imperial, Area of Rectangle, Triangle, Parallelogram & Trapezium, Circumference & Area of circle
Angles & 3D shapes: Angles & parallel lines, Properties of Triangle, Quadrilateral & Polygon, Congruent shapes, 3D shapes, Plans & Elevations
STATISTICS Probability: Two or more events, Tree diagrams, Mutually exclusive outcomes, Experimental, Comparing experimental & theoretical
- Term 2: NUMBER Calculations: Rounding & Estimation, Powers of 10, Trial & improvement, Calculator skills, Order of operations
Ratio & Proportion: Ratio, Division in a given ratio, Direct proportion, Percentage change, Ratio & proportion, Comparing proportions
ALGEBRA Equations & Graphs: Linear Equations, Mappings & Functions, Graphs of linear functions, Equations of a straight line, Curved graphs, Mid-points
Sequences & roots: General term of a sequence, Powers & roots, Index Laws, Identities
GEOMETRY Transformations: Combinations, Symmetry, Enlargements, Scale drawings
STATISTICS Collecting & representing data: Statistical investigations, Formulating hypotheses, Choosing variables, Collecting data, Frequency tables, Time series
- Term 3: NUMBER Calculation: Mental & written addition and subtraction,
Mental & written multiplication and division, Use of calculator
ALGEBRA Simplifying expressions, Algebraic fractions, Formulae, Solving linear equations, Graphs of implicit functions, Algebra & proportion, Real-life graphs
GEOMETRY Construction of 3D shapes: Triangle construction, Bisectors & perpendiculars, Loci, Bearings, Circle Circumference & Area, Volume & Surface area of prism
STATISTICS Analysing & Interpreting data: Averages, Interpreting statistical diagrams, Correlation, Comparing distributions
- English Language & Literature
- Textbook: Oxford English: An International Approach, Book 2 (9780199126651)
- Assesment: 7 weekly homework assignments per term (35%)
2 tests per term plus one oral presentation (65%)
- Term 1: READ: magazine article, autobiography, encyclopedia entry, poem, newspaper report, rhyme, description, fantasy fiction, historical fiction, memoir, prose fiction,
CREATE: mime performance, personal account, journal entry, FAQs, descriptive writing, narrative, instructions research, letter
GRAMMAR SKILLS: abstract nouns, verbs & prepositions, adjectives & adverbs, cause & effect, imperative, sentence functions
LITERATURE FOCUS: Shakespeare Stories (Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice)
- Term 2: READ: autobiography, poems, drama, prose fiction, web page, fable, non-fiction
CREATE: comparative writing, journal entry, contemporary adaptation, opening scene of a drama, dialogue, puppet play, presentation, storyline
GRAMMAR: dynamic & stative verbs, prepositional phrases, emotive & dramatic verbs, rhyme scheme, alliteration, subjects & objects, phrasal verbs, metaphor & simile, transitive & intransitive verbs, concrete & abstract nouns
LITERTURE FOCUS: The Boy in Striped Pajamas
- Term 3: READ: magazine article, autobiography, profile, Middle English, encyclopaedia entry, web page, fable, fiction, newspaper article, poetry
CREATE: composition, web page, chapter, presentation, interview, descriptive writing, persuasive argument
GRAMMAR: irregular noun phrases, habitual PST, non modification, adverbial & adjective phrases, conditional phrases, complex sentences
LITERATURE FOCUS: Poetry
- Other: Based on UK National Curriculum (Key Stage 3)
One period a week is spent focuses on speaking activities including classroom discussion, short speeches, debates and drama.
- Geography
- Textbook: Geog 2 3rd Edition (9780199134946)
- Assesment: 60% tests
20% homework / classwork
10% participation
10% quizzes;
- Term 1: Population - Growth of the world's population. Where people live and why they live there. Effects of people on the planet. (Ch 1)
Coasts - Waves and tides. Work of erosion on coasts to form various landforms. Damage erosion can do and defences against erosion. Managing land use in coastal areas. (Ch 2)
Begin Weather and Climate - Factors that influence weather. Measuring the weather - weather instruments. Why it rains. Types of clouds. Effects of high and low air pressure in summer and winter. Factors that influence climate. Climates around the world (Ch 3)
- Term 2: Complete Weather and Climate
Ecosystems - What is an ecosystem? Tropical rainforests: what are they like and what is happening to them? What can we do to save the rainforests? Arctic tundra - what is it like? Who lives there? Threats to the tundra (Ch 4)
Begin Our warming planet: predictions for the future. What is causing global warming? Why is carbon dioxide of such concern? How can we stop global warming? (Ch 5)
- Term 3: Complete Our warming planet
Energy - how electricity is made. Renewable and non-renewable resources. Problems of fossil fuels. UK energy sources. Nuclear power - positive and negative. Case studies: wind farm in Dorset, solar power in Gosaba. Are biofuels the answer? (Ch 6)
Map skills: 4 and 6 figure grid references; direction, distance, using a key.
- French
- Textbooks
- Metro 2 Rouge (9780435383404)
- Metro 2 Rouge Workbook (9780435383558)
- Assesment: Weekly vocabulary quizzes and assignments (20% of term Grade)
Tests at the middle and/or end of each unit (80% term Grade)
- Term 1: Module 1
Talking about yourself and others
Saying what you did yesterday
Talking about the past
Saying where you have been and what you have done
A special day out
Module 2
Talking about what you do in the morning
Saying when you get up and when you go to bed
Talking about clubs and activities
Arranging to go out
Talking about going to watch movies
- Term 2: Module 3
Talking about your family
Talking about your friends
Talking about your favourite things
Talking about your parts of the body
Saying what is wrong with you and what you need
Module 4
Saying what you have for breakfast and lunch
Shops and shopping for food
Saying how much you want
Ordering food and drink
Describing a day in the past
- Term 3: Module 5
Arranging a visit
Talking about how to get there
Getting to know Paris
Talking about what you have done during a trip
Module 6
Choosing what you would like to do
Understanding instructions.
Talking about where you have been and what you have done
- Greek (Core)
- Textbooks
- Ελληνικά τώρα 1+1 (9789607317209)
- Ελληνικά Τώρα 1+1 Workbook (9789607317117)
- Assesment: Four or Five tests each term 50%
Homework 30%
Participation 20%
- Term 1: 1)Present tense-Verb 'to be'
2)Definite article
3)Indefinite article
4)Nouns:normative,genetive,accusative,vocative of the three genders
- Term 2: 1)Personal and possesive pronouns
2)Adjectives
3)Verbs A and B1-B2 conjugation
4)Subject and Object
- Term 3: 1)Final n
2)Past simple and future tense:active voice
3)Present tense:passive voice
- Greek
- Textbooks
- Η κυρία Ντορεμί (9789602791486)
- Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα Β Γυμνασίου (9789600619188)
- Κείμενα νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας Β΄ Γυμνασίου (9789600619218)
- Assesment: Four or five tests each term 65%
Homework 25%
Participation 10%
- Term 1: A)Grammar
1. Forms of subject
2. Production with unseperated particles
3. The technique of paragraphing
B)Kimena Neoellinikis Logotechnias
1. O anthropos ke i fisi
2. Laografika
3. Ikogeniakes shesis
4. Thriskeftiki zoi
C)Literature book
- Term 2: A)Grammar
1. Moods of verbs
2. Tenses of verbs
3. Types of compound words
B)Kimena Neoellinikis Logotechnias
1. Ethniki zoi
2. Paleoteres morfes zois
3. O kaimos tis xenitias
C)Literature book
- Term 3: A)Grammar
1. Active and passive voice
2. Comparisson
3.Pronouns:Personal,Possesive,Definite,Indefinite,Demonstrative,Relative, Interrogative
B)Kimena Neoellinikis Logotechnias
1. I agapi gia tus sinanthropous mas
2. I viobali
3. Provlimata tis sychronis zois
C)Literature book
- Other: Greek is taught 5 periods a week: 2 periods of Neoelliniki Glossa; 2periods of Kimena Neoellinikis Logotechnias; 1 period of Literature book.
- Science
- Textbooks
- Science for Cambridge Secondary 1- Stage 8 Workbook (9781408520680)
- Science for Cambridge Secondary 1 Stage 8 (9781408520598)
- Assesment: Tests and quizzes (70% of mark)
Assignments and project work (15%)
Homework and worksheets (15% of mark)
- Term 1: Biology
Nutrition and Digestion - Content of a healthy human diet, nutrients, calculations of energy requirements in a healthy daily life, consequences of imbalances in the diet (including obesity, starvation and deficiency diseases), tissues and organs of the human digestive system, use of enzymes in the digestive system
Gas exchange systems - structure and functions of the gas exchange system in humans, mechanism of breathing, impact of asthma and smoking
Cellular Respiration - Aerobic and anaerobic respiration in living organisms, word equations, the process of anaerobic respiration in humans and micro-organisms including fermentation, the differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration in terms of the reactants, products and implications for the organisms
- Term 2: Chemistry
Pure and Impure substances - the concept of a pure substance, mixtures including dissolving, simple techniques for separating mixtures: filtration, evaporation, distillation and chromatography, identification of pure substances, understanding terms relating to mixtures (solution, solute, solvent, saturated, concentrated)
Atoms and Elements- Difference between atoms and elements, using the periodic table to identify elements, principles underpinning the Mendeleev Periodic table, metals and non-metals, recycling and reusing
Compounds and Mixtures - Be able to identify oxides, make a word equation, differences between compounds and mixtures, alloys, basic principle behind electrolysis for electroplating in relation to alloys
- Term 3: Physics
Heating and Cooling - Difference between heat and temperature, how heat is transferred, conductors and insulators, conduction experiment, convection, how a thermometer works, changing states (evaporation, condensation, boiling and freezing), change of state graph
Light - Speed of light, how light travels, light waves travelling in a vacuum, transmission of light through materials (transparent, translucent, opaque), use a ray model to explain imaging in mirrors, the pinhole camera, refraction of light, converging and diverging lens, dispersion of while light
Sound and Hearing - frequencies of sound waves, measured in hertz, echoes, reflection, mediums though which sound travels, production of sound by vibrations of objects, auditory range of humans and animals
- Other: Students complete various experiments and projects throughout the year.
- Girls P.E.
- Assesment: Continual assessment and fitness testing.
- Term 1: Fitness training using various methods of training including interval training, continuous training and circuit training.
Netball: Beginners level. Basic passes and tactics will be taught and developed.
- Term 2: Football/Volleyball (depending on availability): Basic skills will be taught and developed. Rules will be learnt, and students will implement them in a referee position.
Athletics: Sprint and middle distance training and tactics. Long and triple jump training.
- Term 3: Rounders: Learning and developing throwing, catching, batting, bowling and fielding skills.
Tennis/Cricket: Learning basic ground strokes (forehand and backhand). Becoming more confident with rallying.
- Other: Throughout the year:
- use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents through team and individual games.
- develop their technique and improve their performance in various sports and activities.
- analyse their performances compared to previous ones.
- History
- Textbook: Revolution In France (9780582082540)
- Assesment: Tests- 65%
Homework/Classwork (including participation in class)- 35%
- Term 1: The Norman Conquest of England
The Battle of Hastings - Why did the Normans win?
The Feudal System
What did the Norman Conquest change?
King Henry II
King John - Was he a bad King?
The Government of England
- Term 2: Medieval Society
Peasant Life
Farming
Trading
Knights,Chivalry and Courtly Love
The story of Thomas Beckett- Why was Beckett killed?
The Plague- How did the plague transform Medieval England?
Peasant's revolt
- Term 3: The causes of the French Revolution.
The structure of French society.
The Feudal System in 18th Century France
The Monarchy.
The Philosophes.
The events of the French Revolution.
The Storming of the Bastille.
The End of the Monarchy.
Exam revision.
- Other: The Medieval Realms textbooks are a school resource which will be provided in the classroom.
- Bible Knowledge
- Textbook: Bible Truths B (9781591663423)
- Assesment: Tests (every five lessons) 70%
Homework (2-3 times per week) 20%
Quizzes/in class work 10%
- Term 1: Old Testament characters and stories. Eight chapters are covered each containing 5-10 lessons.
Before the Flood: Character studies of Adam, Cain, and Noah
The Patriarchs Character studies: Job, Abraham, Lot, Isaac, Esau, Jacob and Joseph
- Term 2: Moses and His Times: Character studies of Moses, Pharaoh, The Israelites, Aaron and Balaam
Into the Land: Character studies of Joshua, Deborah, Gideon, Abimelech, Jepthath, Samson, Ruth, Hannah, and Samuel
The United Kingdom (Israel): Character studies of Saul, David, Jonathan and Solomon.
- Term 3: The Divided Kingdom: Character studies of Jeroboam, Ahab, Elijah, Naaman, Jehoshaphat, and Joash
The Single Kingdom: Character studies of Hezekiah, Manasseh, and Josiah
The Captivity and Beyond: Character studies of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Ezra and Nehemiah
- Boys P.E.
- Assesment: At the end of every sport section, students are tested on their ability to perform sport skills learned in the weeks prior (every 5-6 weeks).
- Term 1: Football: basic dribbling and ball handling skills
Tennis: basic serving and volleying skills
- Term 2: Basketball: basic dribbling, lay-ups, shooting and defending
Volleyball: basic serving and how to bump, set and spike
- Term 3: General Athletics: in preparation for sports day students will be practicing running, throwing and jumping skills
Swimming: proper form from a professional instructor
- Computing
- Assesment: At least two "Guided Tasks" tests per term, worth 50% of term grade. No homework requiring computer access.
- Term 1: File management - identify different file types and their use/s, for example: css, csv, gif, htm, jpg, pdf
Layout (Word, PowerPoint & Excel) Create headers & footers; ensure content is consistently aligned
Document production (Word & Powerpoint) format text as bulleted or numbered lists
Computer Aided Design (Google Sketchup) creating 2D and 3D models in applications such as architectural & interior design
- Term 2: Proofing (Excel) - Use validation routines to minimise errors; explain why validation checks must be appropriate to the data that is being checked
Data analysis (Excel) - use functions, including: integer, rounding, counting; sort data using multiple criteria into ascending or descending order; format numeric data to display the number of decimal places, a variety of different currency values, percentages as appropriate
Graphs and charts (Excel) - select the appropriate graph or chart type to match the required purpose; change the maximum and minimum values of an axis scale
- Term 3: Website authoring (Microsoft Expression Web) - apply styles to a list, including: ordered list, unordered list; Change table attributes including borders, alignment and background colours.
Programming (Small Basic) Introduction to textual programming; Use text & turtle interface; Use simple Boolean logic (AND, OR and NOT); Use Repeat; Repeat Until; If Then Else control blocks; Use simple variables of different typles; Use operators (arithmetic, comparison & concatenation). Use of subroutines to break down task into sub tasks
- Other: Students who are able will be encouraged to forge ahead themselves, using built in and online help, while the teacher assists the less able.
- Art
- Textbook: Art Supplies (7-9) (9781973000235)
- Assesment: Based on a few art projects each term
- Term 1: Elements of Art and Design
Line
Taking the line for a walk project
Shapes/Form
Shading of Geometric shapes
Value
Shattered images project using value scale
Texture
Collage that shows texture or the illusion of texture
Assemblage 3D collage
- Term 2: Colour
Colour wheel
Ice cream/flower project where analogous, complementary, and monochromatic color relationships are used
Space
2 Point Perspective showing the illusion of space
Open and Closed Compositions
Negative and positive Space
- Term 3: Principles of Art ad Design
Balance/Proportion
Symmetrical and asymmetrical balance
Movement /Rhythm
Notan project to show how rhythm, movement, and pattern are used to organize a composition.
3D Art
Clay project
- Other: General aims for the year.
1. Analyze, interpret, and respond to works of art based on the organization and manipulation of the elements of art and the principles of design using appropriate art vocabulary.
2. Analyze the effect the elements of art and the principles of design have on the communication of ideas.
3. Critique works of art with reference to the elements of art and the principles of design.
4. Apply the elements of art and the principles of design in two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art, including line, shape, form, color, value, texture, space, proportion, rhythm, balance, emphasis, variety, and unity.
- E.S.L.
- Textbooks
- Burlington Real English B1 (9789963510313)
- Burlington Real English B1 Workbook (9789963510344)
- Assesment: Tests every 2 units,
Consolidation tests every 4 units
The student's ability to orally enforce what has been taught is also assessed
Tests constitute 65% of the total.
Classwork, homework and projects constitute 35% of the total.
- Term 1: Units 7,8
Reading texts and comprehension questions.
Topic vocabulary: Entertainment, Sports
Synonyms, collocations
Grammar:The passive voice, conditionals and temporals.
Listening: Multiple choice, sentence completion.
Speaking: Solving a problem, making a decision
Writing: A review, and essay.
Projects: Sports
- Term 2: Units 9,10
Reading tests and comprehension questions
Topic vocabulary: Crime, Art.
Word building, phrasal verbs, expressions, suffixes.
Grammar: The causative, quantifiers, reported speech
Listening: Multiple matching
Speaking: Comparing
Writing: A review, a letter to the editor.
Projects: Art
- Term 3: Units 11, 12
Reading texts and comprehension questions
Topic vocabulary: Natural disasters and the media, Free time, leisure activities
Noun endings and suffixes
Grammar: Wish, special structures, Gerunds, infinitives, get/be used to
Listening: Multiple choice
Speaking: Survival - making a decision, Exchange students - choosing an option
Writing: A story, an informal letter.
Projects: Survival
Revision for end-of-year exams
Provisional Book Lists
