YEAR 10 CURRICULUM OVERVIEWS

SUMMER TERM 2020-2021

ARABIC (NATIVE)

This term, the students will study the first unit that talks about Building a great Country.
The second unit focuses on talks about Working and Progress and the story of Antara bin
Shadad. They also will write articles related to the topics they studied. In grammar, they will
learn some grammatical rules such as:

‫أسلوب االستثناء – تثنية المنقوص والمقصور والممدود – الملحق بجمع المؤنث السالم – إسناد األفعال إلى الضمائر‬

The latter part of the term will be spent on preparation for the end-of-year exams. The HPL
focus will be on questioning and oral communication.

ARABIC (NON-NATIVE)

This term students will review some grammar rules and go through the types of writing
needed for the final exam. Students will continue practising for their reading, listening and
writing exam by answering past papers from 2017-2020.HPL this term on developing critical
thinking skills and intellectual confidence.

ART

This term students will expand on the topic of expression, looking at the body as a form of
expressing oneself. Students will be able to understand the proportion of the body by
making a small wire sculpture, forming with aluminium and Mod Roc. Pupils will be expected
to log through the use of photography and annotations of their workshop experience.
Implementing HPL in Art, intellectual playfulness and multi step problem solving will be used
during lessons. They will have a chance to research artists that reflect ideas and inspiration
in their artwork.

BIOLOGY

This final term of the year 10 Biologists will study one of the most important topics in the
IGCSE Biology syllabus on the Reproduction of living things. This unit covers both asexual
and sexual reproduction in a variety of living things from binary fission and sporangium in
microorganisms, to the anatomy of flowering plants and reproduction in animals. The
students will learn the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of reproduction and
the hormones which control and regulate the menstrual cycle. It will require attention to
detail and accuracy to learn the key concepts. After this, the students will move onto the
topic of Drugs which covers both medicinal and misused drugs and how they impact the
human body. This unit draws together previous learning on the circulatory and respiratory
systems and will require the students to use their enquiring and flexible thinking HPL
attitudes.

BUSINESS STUDIES

This term, pupils will begin the Marketing unit. It is the last unit for the first year of the
IGCSE Business Studies course. This unit will teach students the meaning and importance of
marketing to businesses, including understanding the four P’s (Product, Price, Promotion and
Place) and how businesses implement them into day to day activities to reach their aims and
objectives. Finally, students will revise and recap all topics covered this year to provide a
strong foundation in their understanding of business activities, people in business and
marketing to allow room to develop HPL skills such as problem-solving, strategy planning
and being creative and enterprising.

CHEMISTRY

This term, students will develop the HPL skills of linking and abstract thinking skills through
studying the topic of Chemical reactions. We will investigate exothermic and endothermic
reactions, perform calculations that will enable us to predict the amount of energy absorbed
or released in chemical reactions. We will also study Collision Theory by investigating the
various factors that increase or decrease the rate of a reaction. Finally, we will look at the
factors that affect the position of the equilibrium in reversible reactions such as the Haber
process and the Contact process.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

In the weeks preceding the IGCSE English as a Second Language exam, students in Year 10
will be doing dedicated exam practice and will use past papers (Papers 2 and 4) as timed
practice. After the exam, students will start the IGCSE First Language English course and will
look at the specific skills needed for descriptive and narrative writing. The HPL Skill that
they will focus on is Speed and Accuracy.

ENGLISH LITERATURE

This term, Year 10 students will continue their study of English Literature, moving on to
Charlotte Bronte’s acclaimed novel ‘Jane Eyre’ (the second of the three texts in total
assessed in their IGCSE examinations). Students will explore the contextual influences on
the text, and continue to hone their skills in close language analysis, structural analysis, and
the analysis of the effects of literary devices. Crucially, they will utilise the feedback given to
them from the End of Year Examinations, applying a keen focus on their key targets
according to the Assessment Objectives. Through authorship, critical reception, and
context, Literature students will enhance their ability to see alternate perspectives, a key
HPL focus that develops the more nuanced thought integral to the study of Literature.

FRENCH

This term pupils will continue working on unit 4 four of Expo 4 and also on unit 5 to
develop their vocabulary, listening and reading skills in relation toto directions and school. In
grammar, they will learn to use the simple future confidently and continue to revise the
perfect, imperfect, near future and present tenses. Pupils will continue to do past paper
practice in all skills. They will also be expected to develop their HPL skills still further
becoming analytical, independent learners who enquire, question and identify patterns to aid
their learning.

GEOGRAPHY

This term will focus on the unit ‘economic activity and energy’, where we will consider
economic aspects of town planning, the informal economy, and energy use (including
renewable and sustainable energy). This will require lots of connection finding to apply
theory to the Egyptian context and critical thinking as our HPL focus. As students work
through this unit they will have the opportunity to practice IGCSE questions.

HISTORY

This term in History, students will begin the Edexcel Unit 3 course focusing on Russia and
the Soviet Union (1905-24). The topics to be covered include life in Tsarist Russia,
opposition to the Tsar and the impact of the First World War. As well as content, students
will also develop their source analysis and essay writing ability. They will also develop critical
thinking skills and intellectual confidence as part of HPL. The latter part of the term will be
spent on preparation for the end-of-year exams.

MATHEMATICS

This term, we will be revising Algebraic Fractions before moving onto the field of Calculus,
including the Gradient Function and Maxima and Minima. We will look at Linear and
Quadratic Simultaneous Equations, and the Sine and Cosine Rule in 3D. Finally, we will be
reviewing all topics studied in preparation for the end of year exams. The HPL focus this
term will be Problem Solving and Flexible Thinking.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

This term pupils will explore both base and extended moves in either Yoga or the
Paralympic Sport of Goalball. In Yoga, pupils will learn different routines specific to the
development of specific components of fitness. In Goalball they will explore the basic
techniques of shooting, blocking and passing.

In the second half of the term, pupils will then look at Striking and Fielding Games focussing
on offensive and defensive batting techniques of striking plus a variety of advanced team
fielding techniques.

The HPL focus is automaticity.

PHYSICS

Having completed the first two units of the IGCSE curriculum in Physics, we will start the
summer term by completing the third unit on Waves by investigating the behaviour of light,
water and sound through refraction, diffraction and reflection. This will explain many
everyday occurrences including how a rainbow is formed, and how a camera and optical
fibres work. The productive year will hopefully allow enough time to lead into the shorter
unit on Atomic Physics before the end of the year. The forever evolving unit focuses on the
nuclear atom which will help explain the behaviour of the subatomic world, including
radioactivity. The unit will explore into discoveries of some of the most famous pioneers in
science, including Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. This will hopefully mean our productive
year will have completed 4 out of the 5 units in the IGCSE Physics curriculum. To complete
this first year of the IGCSE, pupils will continue a focus on their analysing HPL skills and
intellectual confidence attitude before moving onto more abstract thinking HPL skills.

NATIONAL STUDIES

This term students will learn about A study of the population in Egypt and their problems
and an attempt to present opinions to solve them and in history, we will get acquainted with
the civilization of the Greeks and Romans and their civilizational role in the world. The
latter part of the term will be spent on preparation for Monthly exams. Our HPL of this
term develop critical thinking skills and intellectual confidence.