English

Half-terms 1 and 2: ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer.

Half-term 3: ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Half-term 4: ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ by William Shakespeare.

Half-terms 5 and 6: ‘Romantic Poetry’ by poets including William Blake, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and John Keats.

A successful scholar after Year 7 will:

• Have knowledge and understanding of foundational English concepts and context.
• Develop an appreciation for canonical texts in English.
• Be able to successfully articulate authorial intent for a range of texts.
• Overlearn core grammar skills to push towards automaticity.
• Express themselves creatively through crafting own poetry.

Half-terms 1 and 2: ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens

Half-term 3: ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia’ by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Half-term 4: ‘World War 1 Literature’, by writers including Rupert Brooke, Jessie Pope, Siegfried Sassoon and R.C. Sherriff.

Half-terms 5 and 6: ‘Animal Farm’, by George Orwell.

A successful scholar after Year 8 will:

• Build upon their knowledge and understanding of core English concepts and context; successfully linking new knowledge to texts, characters and themes learnt in Y7.
• Articulate how historical texts teach us lessons of morality and ethics for the modern era.
• Be able to successfully analyse texts at word-level.
• Overlearn core grammar skills to push towards automaticity.

Half-terms 1 and 2: ‘Hamlet’, by William Shakespeare.

Half-terms 3 and 4: ‘Small Island’, by Andrea Levy.

Half-terms 5 and 6: ‘Rhetorical Writing’, by orators including, Malala Yousafzai, Sojourner Truth, Barack Obama and Mhairi Black.

A successful scholar after Year 9 will:

• Further consolidate their knowledge from throughout KS3 and be able to apply core concepts and context to a range of challenging texts.
• Be able to effectively analyse texts through discussion of writers’ methods.
• Plan and write an academic essay independently.
• Overlearn core grammar and narrative skills to push towards automaticity.
• Express themselves skillfully through successful rhetorical writing.

Half-terms 1 and 2: ‘Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and ‘Short Story Writing’, by writers including Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Jackson and Raymond Carver

Half-terms 3 and 4: ‘A Christmas Carol’, by Charles Dickens and ‘Power and Conflict Poetry’, by poets including Percy Bysshe Shelley, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, John Agard and Imtiaz Dharker.

Half-terms 5 and 6: ‘An Inspector Calls’, by J. B. Priestly, ‘Unseen fiction’ and ‘Spoken Language’

A successful scholar after Year 10 will:

• Utilise their knowledge of three key periods to explore the contexts and themes of exam literature texts.
• Be able to successfully plan, structure and write academic responses.
• Develop their own narrative style through creative writing.
• Be able to analyse texts through discussion of authorial intent, writers’ methods and impact on the audience.
• Confidently plan and deliver a rhetorical speech on a topic of their choosing.

Half-terms 1 and 2: ‘An Inspector Calls’, by J. B. Priestly and ‘Power and Conflict Poetry’, by poets including Wilfred Owen, Ted Hughes, Beatrice Garland and Robert Browning. 

Half-terms 3, 4, 5 and 6: A bespoke revision programme and GCSE examinations.

A successful scholar after Year 11 will:

• Build on their knowledge and skills from Y10.
• Understand how to achieve success in all aspects of the English assessment.
• Be able to identify personal areas of development and have a clear path forward to improvement.
• Enter their revision period with resilience and a desire to demonstrate the very best of themselves in their English Language and Literature examinations.