Bury St Edmunds County High School

Year 11 Super Curricular

Examples of and links to Super Curricular activities for our Year 11 students include:

English

Watch:

  1. Watch the BBC adaptation of An Inspector Calls and see how this director creates different character personas.
  2. Language: Watch ‘The Adventures of English’ with Melvin Bragg, eight parts available covering over 1000 years of the history of English – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XQx9pGGd0&list=PLez3PPtnpncRpf__w_8XWEca2EDv25h3e&index=1.
  3. Poetry: Use this for revision – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZeISp4ONFg. This is great for you to understand all themes from your poetry anthology.

Listen:

  1. Listen to this series of podcasts on An Inspector Callshttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/an-inspector-calls/id1519282209.
  2. Listen the the Reith Lectures. Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford. Jean Aitchison. delivers five Reith Lectures examining the power and the problem of words – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p00gmvwx.
  3. Larkin Revisited. Listen to one Poet from the Anthology talk about another! Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin’s work in his centenary year –https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0019yy2.

Read:

  1. Read this article from the British Library on J.B. Priestley’s political journey – https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-inspector-calls-and-j-b-priestleys-political-journey.
  2. Read articles from The Guardian opinion page – share and discuss with friends.
  3. Read The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, by Stephen Fry. This is a brilliantly accessible book about the ‘rules’ or poetry and how and why to break them. 

Participate:

  1. Visit the Imperial War Museum in London and see how the post-war audience lived. What influences will have affected the way they received the message of Priestley’s play?
  2. Visit the British Museum. Divided into galleries allocated to the history of different regions of the world, the British Museum contains ‘thousands of objects with writing on them from different periods and cultures, made from a variety of materials’. Primary among these is the greatest code-breaker of them all, the famous Rosetta Stone.
  3. Visit the Southbank Centre, the home of literature and spoken word events in the UK or join a free online writing course, for poetry lyrics or drama – https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/get-involved/young-people/online-courses-young-people/.

Maths

Watch:

  1. Parabolic Numbers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXVmuNIfRI. Beautiful Trigonometry – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHKEpCv0Hk.
  2. 10 excellent videos of maths in TV shows and movies – https://www.resourceaholic.com/2023/02/ten-videos-for-maths-lessons.html.
  3. Why Study Maths Further – https://amsp.org.uk/teachers/11-16-maths/transition-to-level-3-maths/why-study-maths/why-maths-video-collection/.

Listen:

  1. Women in Maths, The Limit Does Not Exist – https://abakcus.com/podcasts/the-limit-does-not-exist-mathematics-podcast/.
  2. The Secrets of Mathematics podcast by University of Oxford students – https://abakcus.com/podcasts/the-secrets-of-mathematics-podcast/.
  3. A variety of interesting podcasts – https://plus.maths.org/content/podcast. The Art of Mathematics podcast – https://theartofmathematicspodcast.com/.

Read:

  1. Fractals – https://mathigon.org/course/fractals/introduction. Non-Euclidean Geometry – https://mathigon.org/world/Dimensions_and_Distortions#spherical.
  2. Proofs with Pictures – https://nrich.maths.org/1382. Mathematics in the Financial Markets – https://nrich.maths.org/1426. Euler’s Formula – https://nrich.maths.org/4719.
  3. Calculating the Cosmos – Ian Stewart; Things to Make and Do in the 4th Dimension – Matt Parker; Proofs from the Book – Aigner and Ziegler.

Participate:

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

Biology

Watch:

  1. The Green Planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The Green Planet will reveal the strange and wonderful world of plants like never before – https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/the-green-planet.

Listen:

  1. The Naked Scientists Podcast. Topical areas of science explained by experts –https://www.thenakedscientists.com/.

Read:

  1. The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee. From the prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell tells the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life.

Participate:

  1. Visit a Suffolk Wildlife Trust site. Take photos and make notes about what you see, then write a report. Repeat your visit at another time of year, and report on any changes you observe – https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/places-visit.

Chemistry

Watch:

  1. Watch an Oxford University Springboard lecture here.
  2. Watch a Ted talk here.
  3. Watch Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3m2bb0.

Listen:

  1. Listen to a Chemistry Podcast.
  2. Listen to a Royal Society of Chemistry podcast – Antimicrobial resistance.
  3. Check out the Lancaster University virtual tour of the Chemistry Department.

Read:

  1. Read an article on New Science Journal.
  2. Read Chemistry, A very short introduction
  3. Read H2O, A biography of water and write a short summary of it your teacher. Research the molecular structure of a common medicine and create a poster on it.

Participate:

  1. Sign-up for a workshop or online lecture at the University of Oxford.
  2. Partake in an online course (MOOC) on futurelearn.

Physics

Watch:

  1. Watch The Fascinating Physics of Everyday Life to learn about just how much of your day is impacted by physics without you realising it.
  2. Watch the 2016 series of Christmas lectures all about energy – Let There Be Light, People Power, and Fully Charged.
  3. Watch Radioactive, a film about the life of Marie Curie.

Listen:

  1. Listen to Radio 4’s In Our Time episode about plasma to learn about the most abundant matter in the universe that we don’t discuss in school.
  2. Listen to 13 Minutes to the Moon, a podcast of epic space stories.
  3. Listen to the story about an odd noise that turned out to be evidence of The Big Bang.

Read:

  1. Does E Really Equal mc Squared takes a deep-dive into the most famous equation in physics.
  2. What If? By Randall Munroe looks at serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions and shows how we can apply our knowledge of physics to any situation.
  3. A super-quick, super-painless guide to the theory that conquered the universe is an easy to understand comic explaining Einstein’s Nobel Prize winning General Theory of Relativity.

Participate:

  1. Create a hologram using the Pepper’s Ghost illusion and film a video of it.
  2. Get involved in some Citizen Science – perhaps you’ll find a brand new brown dwarf in the Cool Neighbours project.
  3. Take a course outside of school such as Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science written by Harvard University.

French

Watch:

  1. Watch the French film ‘Amélie’ (rated 15) with or without subtitles.
  2. A short topical cartoon video on www.1jour1actu.com.
  3. Watch the film ‘Je ne suis pas un homme facile’ (I am not an easy man). Hilarious comedy about gender stereotypes on Netflix.

Listen:

  1. Listen to the music of ‘Christine and the Queens’ (on all good streaming platforms). Listen with or without lyrics.
  2. DuoLingo’s French podcast – The Secret Life of Josephine Baker.
  3. Watch the videos about everyday French activities (with French subtitles) – http://tinyurl.com/cep48t56.

Read:

  1. Read a chapter from Charlie et la chocolaterie (see Mrs Frankland).
  2. Read an Astérix comic book in the school library.

Participate:

  1. Duolingo for Key Stage 4 French.
  2. Take a virtual tour of the Versailles Palace – http://tinyurl.com/c2fn8rxd.

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.