Trinity AcademyGerman
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Assessment
ks3 german key assessment pieces.pdf
Year 12
Units taught in Year 12:
Theme 1: Aspects of German-speaking society – Family, digital world, youth culture.
Grammar –Past, Present and Future tenses, adjective endings, prepositions and case system.
Weekly conversation classes building on GCSE knowledge and improving spontaneous speech and fluency.
Theme 2: Artistic Culture in the German-speaking World – Festivals, traditions, art and architecture.
Film Studies: Das Leben der Anderen (The Live’s of Others)
Grammar – Past, Present and Future tenses,, comparatives, superlatives, pronouns, ‘wenn’ clauses and adverbs.
Weekly conversation classes building in A-Level style questioning and improving spontaneous speech.
Theme 2 Artistic Culture in the German-speaking World – Berlin’s culture - then and now.
Film Studies: Das Leben der Anderen (The Live’s of Others)
Exam Preparation – Looking at essay writing in German, style and exam-technique. Revision for rehearsal examinations held in the Summer term.
Bi-weekly essays for film.
Speaking exam IRP project work.
SMSC & British Values:
What are British Values?
• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
• Enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
• Enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England
• Encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour and to understand how they can contribute positively to society generally
• Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England
• Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions
• Encourage respect for other people and encourage respect for democracy, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.
How parents/carers can help to support their child’s learning:
• Encourage the use of online vocab learning software:
, www.senecalearning.com, www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z426n39 (German) & www.languagesonline.org.uk in order to extend and improve knowledge of vocab.
Year 13 Units taught in Year 13:
Theme 3: Multiculturalism in German-speaking society – Immigration, integration and racism.
Literature Studies: Der Vorleser (The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink)
Grammar – The passive, weak nouns and nominalisation, modals,
Bi-weekly essays for film/literature.
Weekly 1:1 speaking intervention for IRP.
Theme 4: Aspects of Political Life in the German-speaking World – Germany and the EU, politics and young people, Reunification and its consequences.
Literature Studies: Der Vorleser (The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink)
Grammar – The subjunctive, imperative, word-order, future perfect, conditional perfect and pluperfect tenses.
Bi-weekly essays for film/literature.
Weekly 1:1 speaking intervention for IRP.
Revision of Themes 1-3, IRP, film and literature – past papers, targeted intervention, 1:1 speaking practise.
Final A-Level examinations
Extra-curricular Opportunities:
After-school intervention, study support and KS3 French Trip.
SMSC & British Values:
What are British Values?
• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
• Enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
• Enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England
• Encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour and to understand how they can contribute positively to society generally
• Enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England
• Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions
• Encourage respect for other people and encourage respect for democracy, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.
How parents/carers can help to support their child’s learning:
• Encourage the use of online vocab learning software:
www.senecalearning.com, www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z426n39 (German) & www.languagesonline.org.uk in order to extend and improve knowledge of vocab.
• Encourage them not to use online translators for written homework, but instead to use an online dictionary (such as dict.cc ) or notes in their exercise book/Microsoft Teams.
• Students will be set weekly short homeworks of vocabulary learning, grammar learning from their Knowledge Organisers and assessment preparation tasks towards the end of each unit. Microsoft Teams are created for each class to enable students to communicate with teachers about homework and missed work.