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Year 10 Super Curricular

Examples of and links to Super Curricular activities for our Year 10 students include:

English

Watch:

  1. Watch the TED talk, How to disagree productively and find common ground, by Julia Dahr, a World Debate Champion – to work alongside viewpoint writing.
  2. Watch a performance of An Inspector Calls on Digital Theatre + and explore the resources they offer to enrich your understanding of the play.
  3. Watch an alternative Shakespearean tragedy on Digital Theatre+ such as King Lear, Othello or Hamlet. Or using suggestions from this article in The Guardian, watch an alternative cinematic adaptation.

Listen:

  1. Listen to the Podcast – Great Speeches in History – which includes some of the most famous speeches by the likes of Martin Luther King and Barack Obama.
  2. Listen to a TED talk to develop your understanding of literature.
  3. Listen to the ‘Much Ado about Shakespeare’ podcast. In 2018, The Telegraph Arts Editor Ben Lawrence introduced a series of podcasts that explored our undying fascination with the greatest playwright in the world.

Read:

  1. Read articles from The Guardian opinion page – share and discuss with friends.
  2. Read a novel by 19th Century celebrated writer, Charles Dickens, including: Great Expectations, Hard Times or David Copperfield. Read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman, she has known discrimination and extreme poverty.

Participate:

  1. Write a blog on an issue or subject that is important to you. Use websites such as this to understand how to write a successful blog.
  2. Attend a free talk at The British Library. See this What’s On guide.
  3. Visit Shakespeare’s Globe in London – a true-to-history reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse first built in 1599 for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays.

Maths

Watch:

  1. Card Memorisation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSuCa8zN4mo. Area of Q – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO2yMdU0Rq4.
  2. The Infinite Hotel Paradox – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3_KqkI9Zo.
  3. 10 excellent videos of maths in TV shows and movies – https://www.resourceaholic.com/2023/02/ten-videos-for-maths-lessons.html.

Listen:

  1. The Function Room Podcast – https://www.goloudnow.com/podcasts/the-function-room-788.
  2. Relatively Prime Podcast – https://relprime.com/.
  3. A variety of interesting podcasts – https://plus.maths.org/content/podcast. The Art of Mathematics podcast – https://theartofmathematicspodcast.com/.

Read:

  1. Circles and Pi – https://mathigon.org/course/circles/introduction. Triangles and Trigonometry – https://mathigon.org/course/triangles/introduction.
  2. The Random World – https://nrich.maths.org/5975. The Use of Mathematics in Computer Games – https://nrich.maths.org/1374. An Introduction to Tree Diagrams – https://nrich.maths.org/tree-diagram-intro.
  3. Humble Pi, A Comedy of Maths Errors  – Matt Parker. Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh. Why do Buses Come in Threes? – Rob Estaway and Jeremy Wyndham.

Participate:

  1. Cambridge Maths Eureka Programme – 28th March.
  2. Intermediate Maths Challenge – 1st Jan/1st Feb – with follow up challenges for successful students.
  3. Bletchley Park, The Home of Coding – https://bletchleypark.org.uk/.

Physics

Watch:

  1. Watch Hawking, a drama documenting the life and work of Stephen Hawking.
  2. Watch Future Earth to learn about how different aspect of our everyday life impact the climate of the future.
  3. Watch Professor Chris Whitty discuss how we can reduce the harm after nuclear, radiological, and chemical incidents.

Listen:

  1. Listen to Radio 4’s In Our Time episode on superconductivity to learn about why some materials lose their electrical resistance and expel their magnetic field at low temperatures, and why that matters!
  2. Listen to The Art of Innovation which discusses how art and science have inspired each other.
  3. Listen to The Weird Waves of Wi-Fi to find out how we’re able to access the internet wirelessly.

Read:

  1. Read some of Richard Brock’s Stories from Physics from your favourite physics topic.
  2. Read The Top 10 Most Beautiful Equations in Physics to learn more about some of the most fundamental equations in physics.
  3. Read Coasters 101 to learn about the engineering behind designing a rollercoaster.

Participate:

  1. Get a group of three to six people together and join the European Space Agency’s CanSat project where you design (and launch!) a satellite in a soft drink can.
  2. Get involved in some Citizen Science. Sort pictures to find galaxies with the Galaxy Zoo project.
  3. Design (and build) an eco-friendly house. Consider factors such as methods of electricity generation, and ways to stop heat loss in your plans. 

Chemistry

Watch:

  1. Watch a Ted talk – here.
  2. Watch the video: Oxygen a matter of life and death.

Listen:

  1. Listen to a Chemistry Podcast.
  2. Listen to a Royal Society of Chemistry podcast – Batteries.

Read:

  1. The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean and write a paragraph about what you have learned.
  2. Read Periodic Tables and write a short summary to show your teacher.

Participate:

  1. Get involved in the Balliol College programme coming in March.
  2. Visit the Science Museum in London.

Biology

Watch:

  1. Watch the video on Photosynthesis.
  2. Watch the video on  DNA Structure.
  3. Watch the video on Variation and Evolution.

Listen:

  1. In Our Time – Podcast.
  2. Inside Science – Podcast.
  3. Inside Science – Podcast.

Read:

  1. Research – What is Photosynthesis.
  2. Research – What is DNA.
  3. Research – Darwin’s Theory – Britannica.

Participate:

  1. Exploring Photosynthesis.
  2. Fruit DNA extraction.
  3. Evolution – Stem Learning.

French

Watch:

  1. Watch Les Choristes (the chorus film, with subtitles).
  2. A short topical cartoon video on www.1jour1actu.com.
  3. Watch the film, La Famille Bélier, with or without subtitles (rated PG).

Listen:

  1. Listen to the music of Stromae (on all good streaming platforms). Listen with or without lyrics.
  2. Listen to tales of Babar (search on Spotify for Babar et le Père Noël).
  3. Watch the videos about everyday French activities (with French subtitles) – http://tinyurl.com/cep48t56.

Read:

  1. Read the English translation of Antoine de St Exupéry’s famous book ‘Le Petit Prince’ (The Little Prince).
  2. Read the comic strip (la BD) Tintin et le secret de la Licorne.
  3. Read an Astérix comic book in the school library.

Participate:

  1. Duolingo for Key Stage 4 French.
  2. Take a virtual tour of the Eiffel Tower in Paris – http://tinyurl.com/erzd6bpx.

German

Watch:

  1. Watch Into the Beat on Netflix. Watch with original German audio and English subtitles (Rated 12).

Listen:

  1. Fabian Wegerer – German singer.

Read:

  1. Die Wohngemeinschaft – https://mojevirtualnopotkrovlje.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/learn-german-with-stories_-cafe-in-berlin.pdf.

Participate:

  1. Duolingo quizlet.