KS3 Tasks
Art
- Find an artist that you particularly like. Complete a research page on this artist. Include: Their name as a title in an appropriate font (www.dafont.com); some information about them and their artwork; a drawn copy of your favourite piece of their work; at least 2 other found printed out copies of their work and your own analysis- what do you like about the work you have researched? Talk about the use of colour, line, space, shape, texture, composition (form), light (tone and shadow).
- Complete a painting/drawing in a coloured media of your choice of a family member in the style of your favourite artist.
- Take 10 photographs of things you would find in a landscape (trees, wildlife, natural forms) and present as a contact sheet in your sketchbook. Print the best photograph out and say why you have chosen it.
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- The Art book for Children Phaidon Press.
- Photography for Kids! Sandra Abend.
- The Usbourne Book of Famous Artists
Biology
- Mini Projects:
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- 101 Brilliant Things For Kids To Do With Science by Dawn Isaac
- Why is Snot Green? And other extremely important questions (and answers) from The Science Museum by Glenn Murphy
Drama
- Review a LIVE theatre performance, a film or a TV series/episode.
- Write a ‘Blurb’ or a brief summary of a play from a specific genre.
- Create a focus exercise/game to share with the class and explain the rules.
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- Harry Potter and The Cursed Child by JK Rowling et al.
- Matilda The Musical by Tim Minchin & Dennis Kelly
- School of Rock by Julian Fellowes
English
- Activities for Students over the Summer:
Letter of introduction to EBooks Now
- Create an artwork inspired by your wider reading, writing a 200 word rationale to accompany the task, explaining why you have designed the artwork in the way you have, to reflect the text.
- Select a character from a book you are reading. Write a short story from their perspective, retelling an event from the book.
- You have been asked to give a speech to a group of year 9 students who have refused to go to school. Write a speech in which you present your viewpoints on the importance of a ‘good’ education.
- Year 7 Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
- Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
- Recommended Reading List Year 8/9
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Extra Curricular Clubs
- Download your Extra-Curricular Loyalty Card
- Attend five clubs and get your card stamped or signed
Food
- Food 1 Equipment Booklet
- Food 2 Eating
- Food 3 Classifying Food Worksheet
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- The Food Book by Jenny Ridgewell
- How Food Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
- BBC Good Food Magazine and website
Geography
- Create a 3D shoe box size model of a place you have studied. Make and label the model with key details.
- Create a short video or presentation on a topic you are studying.
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- The Travel Book (Mind Blowing Stuff on Every Country in the World) by Lonely Planet Kids
History
- History Homework 1 Romans
- History Homework 2 Henry VIII
- History Homework 3 Empire
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- Secret of the Hawk: High Seas.High Adventure by Leonard Wibberly
- Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
- An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
ICT
- Design and build your own Mico:Bit program: http://microbit.org/ Take a screen shot of the final product or take a photo.
- Learn HTML: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html Take a screen shot of the final screen or take a photo.
- Learn CSS: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-css Take a screen shot of the final screen or take a photo.
- Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- Computational Thinking: https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/z7tp34j
- Algorithms: https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/z7d634j
- Online Safety: https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/z67ncdm
Literacy
- 1 - Commas
- 2 - Apostrophes
- 3 - Capitals
- 4 - Punctuation
- 5 - Comprehension
- 6 - Comprehension
- Literacy Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dicken
- Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
- The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Maths
Music
- Year 7 - Music 1 Research Musical Instruments of the Orchestra
- Year 8 - Music 2 Research World Music
PE
- Independent Learning Tasks
- PE Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
- The Brownlee Brothers ‘Swim, Bike, Run. Our Triathlon Story’ ISBN: 0670923125
- David Beckham Autobiography ‘My Side’ ISBN: 0007157339
- Mo Farah Autobiography ‘Twin Ambitions’ ISBN: 1444779583
RE
- Create an artwork replica of a religious building. Write a 200 word description to accompany the task, explaining why you have designed the artwork in the way you have.
- Research a topic you are studying in RE. Write down five different opinions people have about a key aspect of the religion and find one article about the religion.
Technology
Year Leader
- Create a Chalfonts Community College Race 4 Life poster to raise the awareness of the Chalfonts 5K Walk/Run (22nd March)
- Create three different projects that The Chalfonts Community College could do to have better links with the community. You can include:
- Research on what other community projects are completed by schools.
- How would the school set up your project?
- Who would benefit from the project?
- Posters to raise awareness of the project.
- Entrepreneur project- Imagine you have been given £500 to try and make as much money as possible to improve student’s lunch times. This could be creating a product or offering a service. You need to:
- Explain how CCC could improve lunch times.
- How could you spend the money to try and raise as much money as possible for the school? This could be a product or service e.g. cleaning cars or creating scented candles
- Research your idea. Where will you buy the products etc. to start up?
- Explain how you would market your idea. This means how you will get people to know about your project / product that you are selling. Create logos/ slogans and posters that you could put up
- If you could change one thing in the school what would it be? Create a design of your idea and explain how you could get funding to make this happen.
- Organise a charity day for the whole school. Explain what charity you would like to support and why. What event/s would you organise for the day to raise as much money as possible? How would you promote the day?
General Resources
Twinkl have released a resource pack for KS3 covering a range of subjects. It can be downloaded for free on their website. Click Here