Key Stage 3 explained
In signing up for our Key Stage 3 system you will get free access to:
- Hundreds of interactive learning games and exam drills
- Your own online portfolio with records of the scores you have attained
- The ability to add your own revision notes to reinforce your knowledge
- The ability to personalise your What2Learn area by designing your micon (your online character). The more activities you complete the more you will be able to buy for your micon.
If you want to know in detail what topics are covered within each subject area please see the list below. Otherwise, sign up now!
Citizenship
- Justice and the Law
- Politics
- Media
Design and Technology: Food Technology
- Classifying foods
- Animal products
- Types of fruit
- Food Safety
- Nutrition
- Minerals
- Vitamins
- Ways of cooking food
Design and Technology: Graphics
- Key terms
- Freehand drawing
- Rendering
- Types and uses of colours
Design and Technology: Textiles
- Nylon
- Cotton
- Polyester
- Silk
- Rayon
- Acrylic
Drama
- Key vocabulary
- Quizzes
English: Literacy
- 27 interactive activities to help students learn the words highlighted by the national strategy for KS3 as being commonly misspelled
English: Literature
- The Tempest
- Romeo and Juliet
- Henry V
- Macbeth
- Much ado about nothing
- Richard III
English: Spelling and Grammar
- Parts of speech
- Plurals of words ending -f or –fe
- Plurals of words: words ending –y
- Plurals of words: words ending -s, -x or –z
- Plurals of words: words ending –h
- Strange plurals!
- Nouns
- Collective nouns
- Pronouns
- Homophones
- Verbs
- Where, were, wear or we’re?
- Adjectives
French
- School equipment
- School lessons
- Colours
- Hair and eyes
- Days and months
- Animals
- Sports
- Countries
- Family
- Clothes
- The weather
- In the town
- In the house
Geography
- Ordnance Survey map symbols – roads and paths
- OS map symbols – railways
- OS map symbols – land features
- OS map symbols – abbreviations, antiquities and boundaries
- The parts of volcanoes
- The causes of earthquakes
- Responding to earthquakes
- People everywhere
- Population
- Settlements
- Causes of flood disasters
- Reducing the risk of floods
- Physical and Human Geography of the UK
- Parts of rivers
- Fluvial erosion and landforms
- The water cycle
- Coastal environments
- Coastal defences
- Shopping patterns
History
- The Romans – religion, army and architecture
- Medieval England
- Battle of Hastings
- Norman castles
- The Black Death
- The Peasants Revolt
- Crime, punishment and law and order
- Tudor England
- Henry VII
- Henry VIII
- Edward VI
- Lady Jane Grey
- Mary I
- Elizabeth I
ICT
- Working with graphics
- Working with text
- Working with multimedia
- Presentations
- Different forms of data
- Surveys and the purpose of information
- Finding information on the Internet
- Assessing the reliability of information
- Desktop Publishing (DTP)
- Spreadsheet components
- Performing calculations on a spreadsheet
- Logical operators
- Formatting a spreadsheet
- Handling data
- Checking data for errors
- Databases
- Control and monitoring
- Control system flowcharts
- Types of sensors
- Working with HTML
- URL endings
- Information: reliability, validity and bias
- Boolean operators
- Modelling
Mathematics
- Lots of mental maths activities
- Times tables
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Areas of shapes
- Dimensions of shapes
- Angles in triangles
- Volume of cuboids
- Volume of cylinders
- Decimal places
- Significant figures
- Fractions to decimals
- Decimals to fractions
- Decimals to percentages
- Percentages to decimals
- Calculations with negative numbers
- Percentages and fractions of money
- Scores as percentages
Music
- Pulse and rhythm – quiz
- Use of voice
Religious Education
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Sikhism
- Religious buildings
- Religious teachings
- Justice and charity within religion
Science
- Cells
- Reproduction
- Environment and feeding
- Variation and classification
- Acids and alkalis
- Simple chemical reactions
- Solids, liquids and gases
- Solutions
- Energy sources
- Electrical circuits
- Forces
- The Solar System
- Food and digestion
- Respiration
- Microbes and disease
- Ecological relationships
- Atoms and elements
- Compounds and mixtures
- Rocks and weathering
- The rock cycle
- Heating and cooling
- Magnets and electromagnets
- Light
- Sound and hearing
Spanish
- Numbers
- Months of the year
- Days of the week
- Common greetings and replies
- School
- Age and birthdays
- Countries
- Animals
- Colours
- Appearance
- In the house
- In the town
- The weather
- Sports
