ENGLISH

Our big ideas in English are:

 

Click here for details on the Big Ideas.

See below for the English Learning Journey from Year 7 to Year 11 and the overviews for each Learning Cycle. They explain our planned curriculum of what students are expected to learn.

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You can find our English KS3 knowledge organisers and support with KS3 home learning here.

The key contact for this subject is Mrs A Wray - Central Leader for English (ali.wray@pcsa.theplt.org.uk)

For more information about KS4 revision and study support visit our pages on revision and Prep for Success / Easter School.   

Preparing for KS4 study (GCSE and vocational qualifications in years 10 and 11)? Click here for information about the Year 9 Options Process.  

To find out more about our careers provision, visit the careers webpage.

Year 7 Learning Cycle

My Voice: Autobiography

Assessment Focus:
Writing skills

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Novel: Freedom 1789

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts  

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Shakespeare: The Tempest

Assessment Focus:
Interpreting the meaning of Shakespeare’s writing 

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Poetry: War & Conflict

Assessment Focus:
Understanding the methods poets use to express themselves

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Year 8 Learning Cycle

Novel: Trash

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

My Voice: Protest Writing

Assessment Focus:
Persuasive writing

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Creative Writing: Dystopian Writing

Assessment Focus:
Narrative writing

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Year 9 Learning Cycle

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

My Voice: Short Stories

Assessment Focus:
Narrative writing

 Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Poetry: Exploring Voice

Assessment Focus:
Analysing the methods poets use to express

Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Transactional Writing: Theme Park Project

Assessment Focus:
Language Paper 2 Q5

 Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall

Year 10 Learning Cycle

19th Century Novel: A Christmas Carol (Literature Paper 1)

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts  

Home Learning Focus:
Seneca and Quotation Revision

Modern Text: Blood Brothers (Literature Paper 2)

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts  

Home Learning Focus:
Seneca and Quotation Revision

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Literature Paper 1)

Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts

Home Learning Focus:
Seneca and Quotation Revision

Students as Writers

(Language Paper 1 and Language Paper 2)

Assessment Focus:
Paper 1 and Paper 2 Question 5

Home Learning Focus:
Paper 1 and Paper 2 Writing Tasks

Year 11 Learning Cycle

 

AQA Poetry Anthology: Conflict Poetry

(Literature Paper 2)

Assessment Focus:
Paper 2 Literature Q2

Home Learning Focus:
Seneca and Poetry Commentaries

Exam Skills

Assessment Focus:
Language analysis and creative writing

Revision

Assessment Focus:
Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 

Literature Paper 1 and Paper 2