History

Colonising America and India

The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island

Jamestown

Pilgrims

The East India Company

Making Money

How the British Empire was ruled

National Archives - British Empire

Watch Mangal Pandey

Madras famine

Imperial Durbar

The Indian Mutiny

British Colonies in Africa

Dr Livingstone - Victoria Falls

The Boer War - short clip

Empire - clips

Art & Design

Tonal Shading Techniques

Artist Study Wassily Kandinsky

Famous Paintings Study


Botticelli - Spring
Da Vinci - Mona Lisa
Velazquez - The Maids of Honour
Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring
Seurat - A Sunday on La Grande Jette
Van Gogh - Sunflowers
Da Vinci - The Last Supper
Degas - Blue Dancers
Munch - The Scream
Klimt - The Kiss


Visit to Museum Art Exhibition

Design and Technology

Building designs



Designing for Environments

Planning

J will be in Year 9 in school terms, and this is where we start with a bit of structure. This will of course, involve a lot of planning and organising, especially as I now work part time from home (one office morning a week) and also have other responsibilities including being a Red Box Project coordinator and a Town Councillor.

We will be including the following subjects in our termly planning:

• English
• maths
• science
• history
• geography
• modern foreign languages
• design and technology
• art and design
• music
• physical education
• citizenship
• computing

I will do a separate blog post for each subject and will follow this timetable:

Monday:
Maths
Geography
Design & Technology


Tuesday:
English
Science
Citizenship

Wednesday:
Computing
Maths
History
Languages

Thursday:
English
Art
Music

Friday:
Maths
English 
Science

Physical education will include rugby twice a week, swimming, walking and home gym.