Grade 9 equipment and materials recommendations
The Heads of Department have prepared the following list of equipment/materials you will need for courses in that subject area.
Any reading or activities specific to the UWCSEA programme will have an asterisk*
Department
Art and Design Courses
Chinese courses
Computer Science*
Critical Perspectives
Dance courses
● N/A - all materials and equipment provided
● Basic stationery pack (pencil, pen)
● Ipads and Apple pencils can be used for note taking and writing practices.
All necessary software will be provided at the start of the course. Laptops should be charged and have 25Gb of disk space available.
● Online Workbooks on all units provided in class that have links to all essential materials.
● Form fitting dance attire - this could include; a leotard, tights, leggings, thin sweatpants, shorts or UWCSEA PE shirt)
● Writing materials including pens and highlighters
● Hair bands (hair must be up)
Design Technology Courses
Drama Courses
English courses
● All materials and equipment will be provided.
● Leggings or tracksuit bottoms (or long shorts) and t shirts for movement/physical work
● Journal notepad (lined and/or plain paper) (Eng B only)
● Basic writing equipment, including highlighters
● Students can also use ipads and apple pencils to annotate texts and to take notes (but not essential)
Folder at home to keep scripts
Film courses
French courses
● 1 X SD Card (Class 10, UHS-1 or similar) Min 32GB
● Portable Hard Drive: minimum 1 Terabyte in size
● Exercise books will be provided by the Department.
● Basic writing equipment, including highlighters and coloured pens.
Food and Nutrition Courses
A journal for film notes and planning Stationery or electronic stores
N/A Popular bookshop or stationers
N/A
Stationers
Hindi courses
Humanities Courses
● Stationary - Notebook and pens.
● Textbooks - Sahitya Sagar
● Economics: Workbooks provided by school. Textbooks are available in the library. Students should obtain a full pencil case with coloured pens, pencils, ruler, eraser, highlighter and calculator
● Enterprise/Social Entrepreneurship: Workbooks provided by school. Enterprise textbooks available in the library but not compulsory. Students must have pencil cases with pens and pencils, ruler, calculator, eraser and highlighter.
● Geography: Workbook provided by school;students should obtain a 30cm ruler, pencil, pen, eraser, set of coloured pencils & set of highlighters
● History: Workbook and textbook provided by school; students should obtain a full pencil case with coloured pens, pencils, ruler, and eraser.
N/A Bookshop
A4 ring binder, plastic wallets with holes to go in ring binders
Plastic wallets with holes to go in ring binders N/A
Popular bookshop or stationers
Japanese courses
Mathematics courses
● Basic writing equipment, including highlighters.
● A folder with plastic sleeves to keep worksheets and handouts.
● TI-Nspire CX II Graphing calculator. (NOT the CAS version) Must bring to the first lesson, complete with all packaging - keeping your unique code safe from this packaging is most important. Standard stationery (30cm ruler, protractor, pair of compasses, pen, pencil)
N/A Stationers
N/A
TI-Nspire available at the College Shop at East Campus for $210
Music Courses
● Instrument
● Your own pair of headphones
● A workbook provided for students
● Your own MIDI controller (optional)
Physical and Wellness
Education
School Supported Self Taught
Science courses
● Full UWCSEA PE kit
Your own MIDI controller (keyboard)
Spanish courses
● Exercise books will be provided by the Department.
● Basic writing equipment, including highlighters and coloured pens.
● Standard stationery (30cm ruler, protractor, pen, pencil)
● Calculator
● Textbooks and exercise books will be provided by department in first two weeks of school
● Basic writing equipment, including highlighters. A Spanish folder with plastic sleeves to keep worksheets and handouts.
● Bring the textbook, exercise book and copy book at all times.