| Autumn 1 (Sept – Oct) | Autumn 2 (Nov – Dec) | Spring 1 (Jan – Feb) | Spring 2 (Mar – Apr) | Summer (May – Jun) | ||
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| Topic Title | ● Byron Diploma | ● Academic Writing | ● Big Question: How does our knowledge about the world inform the way we construct our values? | ● Spin | Exams -Students off timetable | |
| How is our understanding of the world influenced by the way knowledge is communicated? | ||||||
| Key Skills and Content | ● How can students enhance their CV for completing Uni Applications? | ● Finalising question (based on initial research) | ● Explore the way in which we construct our values. | ● Consider how different forms of communication can shift the meaning of ideas - either deliberately, or by accident. | ||
| ● Consider the relationship between ethics and the arts, the natural sciences, mathematics, and the contrasting approaches of indigenous societies to ethics. | ● Students explore real-life situations about ‘spin’ related to each of the five Areas of Knowledge. | |||||
| ● Introduction to Academic Writing (creating research questions, how to research, how to write literature reviews, keeping bibliographies) | EPQ lessons for Pilot project | ● Analysis of 18 different key thinkers, including Paul Bloom, Immanuel Kant, and Rebecca Adamson. | ● Analysis of 15 different key thinkers, including George Orwell and Molly Crockett. | |||
| Outcomes | ● Fulfilling certain experiences/project, creating academic question and research | ● Pilot Project | ● Students are asked to explore the connection between values and present to teacher | ● Students are asked to explore connections between “spin” and an area of knowledge. | ||
| ● Sharing of conclusions with the teacher. |
