Year 7 Reading List
English
- The Moth: The Art and Craft of Storytelling https://themoth.org/
- Phoebe Reads a Mystery https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phoebe-reads-a- mystery/id1503921457
- A Selection of Short Stories https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/30-the-best- short-stories-you-can-read-for-free.html
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Sue Townsend
- The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper
- Peter Pan JM Barrie
- Boy and Going Solo Roald Dahl
- A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine LEngle
- War Horse Michael Morpurgo
- His Dark Materials Trilogy Philip Pullman
- The Sword in the Stone TH White
- The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
- The Book Thief Marcus Zusak
- The Call of the Wild Jack London
- https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2012/mar/08/review- diary-adrian-mole-sue-townsend
- https://www.instagram.com/vocords/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tkm27/episodes/downloads
- https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/series/childrens-books- podcast
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws55NA-5TT
- https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/secondary-ks3-ks4-reading-lists/
Maths
- Donald in Mathmagic Land: Donald Duck goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music, and magical living things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvceKeHl0Sg
- Visit the website of Bletchley Park, home of The Codebreakers https://bletchleypark.org.uk
- The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Science
- The Cartoon Guide to ….(chemistry, biology, physics) Larry Gonick
PE
- https://www.instagram.com/calories.tips/
- Visit the website below to find out about more sporting activities you can be involved with www.bbc.co.uk/getinspired
- Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars Gregory Zuckerman
Geography
- National Geographic https://www.instagram.com/natgeo/
- Apps: Your World, World Geography Quiz, Hazards and Population Mapper, Earth Viewer, Google Earth
- Film - Pompeii (2014)
- Film - San Andreas (2015)
History
- History in Pictures: https://www.instagram.com/historyphotographed/?hl=en
- TED-Ed: What happened at the Salem Witch Trials?
- Ancient Greek Mythology
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Watch the Horrible Histories series. http://horrible-histories.co.uk/
- Subscribe to the BBC History magazine https://www.historyextra.com/bbc-history- magazine/
- Read the Time Travellers Guide to… series by Ian Mortimer for a first-hand account of what life in Britain was like throughout the ages: https://www.goodreads.com/series/173290-time-traveller-s-guides
Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)
- The BBC has a guide to watching TV in:
Art and Textiles
- The Tate Modern - Modern and Contemporary art: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern
- The Tate Britain - British Art https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain
- The Victoria and Albert Museum - Applied arts and design from around the world www.vam.ac.uk
Technology
- Design Technology TV on YouTube – has links to videos about design concepts and also other DT related sites https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrEUBLZSlhI- 8Dxx2pBfZRw
Computing
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/
- https://www.sololearn.com/Leaderboard/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZFUnAgOqs
- https://code.org/
- http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster
- https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming
- https://scratch.mit.edu/
- https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
- Python Crash Course Eric Matthes
Philosophy and Ethics
- The Silk Roads Neil Packer
Music
- Visit the Horniman museum to look at the instrument collection: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/
- Visit the musical Museum near Kew: https://www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/
- Go on a London Rocks walk to visit famous musical locations around London: http://londonrockwalks.com/
- Listen to a range of different musical genres through BBC Sounds. You can also access a range of podcasts and features on the different genres: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds
Drama
- Cue for Treason Geoffrey Trease
Citizenship
- The Hunger Games Trilogy Suzanne Collins
- His Dark Materials Trilogy Philip Pullman
- I am Malala Malala Yousafzai
- I Will Always Write Back Caitlin Alfirenka & Martin Ganda
- Flowers In the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers who resisted the Nazis K.R.Gaddy
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
- The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz Heather Morris