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.
English Curriculum and Assessment Calendar - Year 10
English Curriculum and Assessment Calendar - Year 11
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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 L Mccarthy - Central Leader for English (louise.mccarthy@pcsa.theplt.org.uk)
For more information about KS4 revision and study support visit our pages on revision and Prep for Success.
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
Voices and Visions
Assessment Focus:
Creative, descriptive writing
Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall
Conflict Poetry
Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts
Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts
Home Learning Focus:
Information retrieval and knowledge recall
Freedom 1789
Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts
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
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
Macbeth
Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts
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
Students as Writers (Language Papers 1 and 2 Q5)
Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts
Home Learning Focus:
Creative and persuasive writing tasks
Macbeth
Assessment Focus:
Writer’s intentions, choices and impacts
Home Learning Focus:
Seneca revision and analytical writing tasks
Power and Conflict Anthology Poetry
Assessment Focus:
Paper 1 and Paper 2 Question 5
Home Learning Focus:
Seneca revision and analytical writing tasks
Year 11 Learning Cycle
An Inspector Calls & Power and Conflict
Assessment Focus:
Paper 2 Literature Q2
Home Learning Focus:
Seneca revision and a range of writing and essay tasks
Exam Skills
Assessment Focus:
Language analysis and creative writing
Revision
Assessment Focus:
Language Paper 1 and Paper 2
Literature Paper 1 and Paper 2