Key Stage 4 explained
In signing up for our Key Stage 4 system you will get free access to:
- Hundreds of interactive learning games and exam drills
- Content developed in line with the requirements of a range of exam board specifications
- 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!
Business and Communication Systems
- Communication
- Human resources
- ICT in the business environment
- The business environment
- Workplace organisation
English Grammar
- Parts of speech
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- The structure of a sentence
- Clauses
- Punctuation marks
French
- Clothes
- Materials
- Describing yourself
- Family
- Animals
- Describing where you live
- Home
- Describing a normal day
Geography
- Economic activities
- Employment structure
- World trade
- Farming
- Manufacturing industry
- High-tech industy
- Industry in LEDCs
- Tourism
- Ecosystems and environmental issues
- Food webs
- Biomes
- Tropical rainforests
- Forest management
- Savannas
- Desertification
- Energy production
- Acid rain
- Global warming
- Population and development
- Population distribution
- Migration
- Aid
- Britain and the Second World War
- Evacuation
- Blackout
- The Home Guard
- The Battle of Britain
- The Battle of the Atlantic
- Germany 1919-45
- Nazi Germany
- The Treaty of Versailles
- The Weimar Republic
- Hitler’s foreign policy
ICT
- Input devices
- Output devices
- Storage
- Software applications
Mathematics
Materials provided for Foundation and Intermediate levels.
- Place value
- Solving problems without a calculator
- Mental arithmetic shortcuts
- Changing between decimals, percentages and fractions
- Ratio
- Algebra
- Solving equations
- Angles in intersecting and parallel lines
- Conversion between units
- Rounding off numbers
- Simplification of fractions
Physical education
- Anatomy and physiology
- The skeletal system
- The circulatory system
- The respiratory system
- The nervous system
- The muscular system
- Health-related fitness
- Principles of training
Religious Education
- Poverty and Wealth
- Religion and Medical Ethics
- Peace and Justice
Resistant Materials
- Wood
- Plastics
- Metals
- Forces
- Environmental effects on materials
- Production systems
Science (OCR 21st Century)
- B1 You and your genes
- B2 Keeping healthy
- B3 Life on Earth
- B4 Homeostasis
- B5 Growth and development
- C1 Air quality
- C2 Material choices
- C3 Food matters
- C4 Chemical patterns
- C5 Chemicals of the natural environment
- P1 The Earth in the Universe
- P2 Radiation and life
- P3 Radioactive materials
- P4 Explaining motion
- P5 Electric circuits
Science (AQA A)
- Biology 1A: Human biology
- Biology 1B: Evolution and environment
- Chemistry 1A: Products from rocks
- Chemistry 1B: Oils, Earth and atmosphere
- Physics 1A: Energy and electricity
- Physics 1B: Radiation and the universe
Science: General Biology
- Characteristics of life
- Plant growth and adaptation
- Levels of organisation
- Cells
- Activities within cells
- Human organs and organ systems
- Green plant organs and organ systems
- Nutrition
- Circulation within humans
- Breathing and respiration
- Nervous system
- Hormonal system
- Homeostasis
- Water relations and transport within green plants
Science: General Chemistry
- Elements, compounds and mixtures
- Atoms
- The Periodic Table
- States of matter
- Symbols and formulae
- Separation techniques
- Fuels and the environment
- Water and solutions
- Acids, bases and salts
- Covalent bonding
- Ion formation and ionic bonding
- Enzyme reactions
Science: General Physics
- The difference between weight and mass
- Force and extension
- Equilibrium and Turning Forces
- Pressure
- Motion
- Energy
- Work
- Uses and sources of energy
- Power
- Conduction, convection and radiation
- Wave motion
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum and light
- Reflection and refraction of light
