English
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Intent
Our vision
In the English department we offer a curriculum that engages and stimulates and proves to be enjoyable and challenging. Our curriculum highlights expression and empathy, expectations and enlightenment, encouragement and enjoyment. The vision is to equip students with a desire to express their views, develop working relationships between students and teachers that share high expectations and to feel valued and excited about life and actively encouraged to pursue their ambitions beyond the school environment. We recognise the role of literacy as being instrumental in students achieving their very best at Stowmarket High School, and the English department take an active role in leading literacy across the school to enable all students to access the full benefits of our ambitious curriculum. We believe in delivering an accessible and diverse English curriculum that engages students by breaking down the learning and providing clear direction in structured steps. Flexibility and freedom for staff and students within this framework ensures that learning is personalised, enjoyable and progressive.
Key Stage 3
- Students will have joy in English through a range of strategies and exploration of texts and activities.
- Students will have creatively explored a range of texts and literature across genres, including but not limited to prose, poetry, performance poetry, reports, plays, scripts etc. Enabling them to form preferences and develop cultural literacy.
- To be able to express opinion with rationale in writing and voice, supporting this with evidence and analysis.
- Students have experience in public speaking and have developed requisite social skills to listen attentively to peers.
- Students will have developed their cultural literacy through reading and gaining tier two vocabulary. They will have gained an awareness of contextual elements around a text.
| Year 7 English | Units/Topics studied: |
| Autumn | Reimagined Skills Unit: The Natural WorldRavens Gate |
| Spring | Reimagined Skills Unit: Child Labour The Play of Frankenstein |
| Summer | Reimagined Skills Unit: Journeys and Explorations Shakespeare’s World Poetry around the world |
| Year 8 English | Units/Topics studied: |
| Autumn | Reimagined Skills Unit: Beyond Our World The Play of Noughts and Crosses |
| Spring | Reimagined Skills Unit: How We Treat Others Romeo and Juliet |
| Summer | Reimagined Skills Unit: Growing Up Stay Where You Are Then Leave Conflict poetry |
| Year 9 English | Units/Topics studied: |
| Autumn | Reimagined Skills Unit: The Unexplained Boys Don’t Cry |
| Spring | Reimagined Skills Unit: The Town and Country Kes- The Play |
| Summer | Reimagined Skills Unit: Crime and Punishment Othello Anthology of Victorian poetry |
Key Stage 4
- Students will have developed a sophisticated knowledge of language and its implementation. They will employ a range of techniques to create effect.
- Students will have developed their own written and spoken styles, being able to write and speak articulately and eloquently for a variety of purposes.
- Students will be able to argue and synthesise the opinions of others – both written and spoken.
- Students will refer to cultural capital/context/research in their analyses, using these references to develop and contextualise their analyses.
- Students will have begun to read more widely, making cross-curricular links, and critically assessing writers’ styles, purposes and contexts.
- Students will be prepared to take their next steps in life through resources and learning linked to further education and future employment.
| Year 10 English Literature & Language | Topics Covered: |
| Autumn | A Christmas CarolWar and Conflict Anthology |
| Spring | Refugee Boy War and Conflict Anthology |
| Summer | Macbeth Spoken Language Endorsement War and Conflict AnthologyUnseen Poetry |
| Year 11 English Literature & Language | Topics Covered: |
| Autumn | Language Skills – Analyse, Compare, Evaluate English Language PRE preparation |
| Spring | English Literature PRE preparationPoetry Anthology Revision Unseen Poetry Revision |
| Summer | Revision of Literature Texts Paper 1Revision for the reading section of Language Papers Revision of the Literature Texts Paper 2Revision for the Language Papers – Writing |
