Year 7

Year 7 will work on a scheme that aims to develop Speaking and Listening skills.
This will be a fun way of getting the new students to engage with English in
Secondary whilst giving them a foundation on which to build next year. The
scheme will focus around the idea of being lost on an island and they will explore
this scenario through group discussion, presenting, role play and creative writing.
Year 8
Year 8 will work on a Global community scheme. This focuses on exploring nonfiction texts and creative writing, based around the idea of being internationally
minded. Students will respond to a variety of texts that develop knowledge about
other communities around the world as well as lay the foundations for exploring
non -fiction, which is important for GCSE.
Year 9
Year 9 will study Short stories to develop their understanding of language and
analytical skills. The stories we will focus on are Flight by Doris Lessing, The
Red Room by H.G.Wells and In Her Shoes by Michele Roberts. Students will
have summer work which will be to research the social and historical context of
Shakespeares Macbeth which they will be expected to submit when they return
in September.
Year 10
Year 10 will begin the new academic year by exploring five poems as part of their
Poetry over Time unit for the new AQA specification in preparation for their
English Literature GCSE exam in Year 11. We are focusing on poems from the
Power and Conflict cluster, which include a variety of different poets feelings,
attitudes or beliefs on power and conflict. It is advised that all students keep the
work, as it will be required at the end of Year 11 for their exam revision. The
poems are:
London William Blake
The Prelude -Wordsworth
Checking out my history John Agard
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
Storm on the island Seamus Heaney
Year 11
Year 11 will begin the new academic year by completing an extended reading
controlled assessment, as part of their AQA GCSE English Language. In
September, students will be studying a collection of poetry taken from the AQA
anthology, in preparation for their Unit 2 Literature exam, to be taken in Year 11.
Students will be exploring how language and stylistic devices are used by poets
to engage the reader, and will be developing their skills of comparison and
unseen poetry analysis.
Year 13
Year 13 will begin the academic year by completing a Written Task based on
Literature. This coursework will be completed and redrafted later on in the year.
Students will also begin to research and identify the historical, social and
economic factors that have influenced the authors and production of the texts
that they will be studying for their IB exams next year.