English
Students in English will be confident when communicating their voice: their expressive voice in creative writing; their academic and critical voice in response to their wide and diverse reading; their spoken voice when communicating with others.
We want our students to leave us with creative and enquiring minds; making links between what is explored in the classroom and wider social, political and moral issues. We prepare our students to communicate accurately, with the ability to convey their ideas confidently and with respect for others.
Students use Sparx Reader as part of their Home Learning across KS3 & KS4 to improve their comprehension and reading fluency, this programme develops confidence and promotes reading for pleasure. You can find out more about Sparx Reader > HERE
Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8 & 9)
Students cover a range of skills and are exposed to a many forms of writing.
Year 7: History of Literature from Chaucer to present day, writing creatively, nineteenth century fiction and non-fiction, unseen poetry, a modern novel and understanding Shakespearean tragedies.
Year 8: A modern novel, a non-fiction unit where they question bias, writers’ perspectives and the reliability of news, poetry, narrative and genre writing and Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’.
Year 9: ‘My Name is Leon’, Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, unseen poetry and poems from the Power and Conflict GCSE anthology, narrative writing and analysis of literary prose texts in preparation for GCSE English Language and an individual presentation to the class.
Key Stage 4 (Years 10 & 11) AQA GCSEs (8700 and 8702)
Students will have the opportunity to study the following:
Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing: understanding and creating literary prose fiction (Language paper 1: 50%)
Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives: understanding non-fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty first centuries and writing to express a view point. (Language paper 2: 50%)
Shakespeare and the 19th Century novel: exploring a Shakespeare play and a novel written in the nineteenth century as well as the context in which they were written. (Literature paper 1: 50%)
Modern Texts and Poetry: exploring a modern text and the AQA poetry anthology: Power and Conflict cluster and unseen poetry (Literature paper 1: 50%)
Year 11 Revision Materials
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