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KS5 Tasks

Art

  • Create a 10 hour piece of original work.  You must include the following in your sketchbook: Mind map of written ideas, Visual mind map showing sources of inspiration.  A drawing/digital recreation of the best image you found.  35 photographs exploring the idea.  Evaluate.  35 better photographs to work with for your final piece.  Practice/mock up with various media tests. Evaluate. Final piece.
  • Create a pastiche of an artwork that inspires you.  Analyse the artists style and subject matter.  Work from direct observation making your own piece of work but copying all ideas and techniques from your artist.
  • Artist recreation.  Choose an artist that you have been inspired by.  Analyse their work.  Explore their use of the formal elements of art and basic principles of Art.  Make a copy of your favourite piece of their art work.  Evaluate.  Take 35 photographs inspired by their art work to use in your own piece of work.  Make a piece of original artwork inspired by your artist.  Not a pastiche.
  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
    • The Story of Art by EH Gombrich.
    • The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes.
    • The Most Influential Painters and the Artists they Inspired by David Gariff. 
    • Photography: The Ground-Breaking Moments by Florian Heine. 
    • A History of Photography from 1839 to the Present, Taschen.
    • Art, The Definitive Guide by Andrew Graham-Dixon

Biology

  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form. The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

Business and Economics

Chemistry

  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form. Chemistry: Reading and Writing the Book of Nature by Vincenzo Balzani and Margherita Venturi

Computer Science

Drama

  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
    • An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski
    • Devising by Frantic Assembly
    • Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
    • King Lear by Shakespeare
    • Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
    • Les Miserables by Bauble and Shonberg

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​English

  • Create a quotation bank of key quotations from all of the set texts.
  • Mindmap your thoughts on the key themes and characters of the set texts.
  • Learn key dates and events of WW1 and how this influenced the writing at the time (and its aftermath).
  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
    • Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
    • Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway
    • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    • Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
    • Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
    • Poetry of  Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

Extra Curricular Clubs

Geography

Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form. See Geography Reading and Activity List. 

Literacy

Media

PE

  • Michael Phelps Research Task: Using your knowledge of all course areas and following some research on Michael Phelps, explain which anatomical, physiological, psychological and socio-cultural influences have helped him to become the greatest ever Olympian. 
  • Create and complete a detailed 8 week training programme for yourself to improve in a single component of fitness. This may, for example, be to improve in speed, stamina, power, etc.
  • Visit or arrange work experience at one of the following places; St Georges Park for gaining knowledge about training and coaching, elite performance, psychology of sport, NGBs, etc. / Lords Cricket Ground for gaining knowledge about training and coaching, elite performance, psychology of sport, NGBs, the history of sport, etc. /  Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for gaining knowledge about training and coaching, elite performance, psychology of sport, NGBs, history and legacy of hosting an Olympics, etc. / Cadbury World for gaining knowledge about the industrial revolution, the history of sport, etc. / Brunel University and its athletics training sessions for gaining knowledge about training and coaching, fitness testing, elite performance, psychology of sport, etc. / Body World’s Exhibitions or Bodies, The Exhibition (when either are in the country) for gaining knowledge about anatomy and physiology, etc.
  • Go to a live sporting fixture or event (or watch) and write a 150 word summary of the action.
  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form​​​​​​​
    • Honeybourne, Powell. OCR A Level PE Book 1 (2016)​​​​​​​
    • Honeybourne, Powell. OCR A Level PE Book 1 (2016)​​​​​​​
    • Moorhouse. My Revision Notes: OCR A Level PE (2016)
    • Sports Rule Books and Coaching Guides
    • Journal of Sports Sciences
    • Journal of Sport & Social Issues
    • All sports magazines will offer a view on performing, coaching, science, current issues or history of sport/s.
    • 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
    • www.sportengland.org
    • www.brianmac.co.uk
    • NGB websites - The FA www.thefa.com, The RFU www.rfu.com etc.
    • Read the Sport section of any broadsheet newspaper or the BBC website

Physics

  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form - ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A Brief History of Time by Professor Stephen Hawking

Psychology

  • www.simplypsychology.org/a-level-psychology.html - log on to this website to consolidate units already covered, or to read ahead to upcoming units.
  • Watch the following films – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Shutter Island, A Beautiful Mind, Fly Away Home, Identity, 12 Angry Men
  • Watch any TV programme related to human behaviour e.g. documentaries on relationships, aggression/violence/prisons, schizophrenia, mental health, child rearing practices, memory, twins, sleep and conformity/obedience. Particularly look out for documentaries by Michael Moseley or Dr Robert Winston – much of their work is also available on YouTube. If you watch a programme that you think would be good for the whole class to see then let your teachers know!
  • Recommended Reading List. You need to read the text and complete the Reading Reflection form.
    • The Psychology Review periodical – available in the LRC, study centre and Rm 86
    • Any of the books on the Psychology bookshelf in Rm 86
    •  Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
    • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini
    • Mindfulness: A Practical Guide by Mark Williams and Danny Penman
    • Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ by Daniel Goleman

​​​​​​​Year Leader

  • Commit to a Personal Development Opportunity.
  • Complete your UCAS application.
  • Organise the next stage in your pathway e.g. an apprenticeship / job / college course.  

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