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Overview
Our faculty vision is to create a community of competent readers, creative writers, and confident speakers. We have developed an English curriculum that is ambitious for all learners in their journey through Year 7 to Year 11. Our plan is to enable various opportunities for progress and success during and beyond life at SWS. Our curriculum is designed to give our learners courage to succeed in a post pandemic world - focusing on recovery, without diminishing students’ education and experiences.
Through English Language components, we seek to equip students with the necessary skills to navigate and succeed in further education and employment opportunities. Through English Literature, we seek to develop students’ ability to think deeply, show empathy and discover the riches of Literature through time.
Through a knowledge-engaged curriculum, we believe that solid understanding underpins and enables the application of skills: both are entwined. As a department, we deliver and define the powerful composite knowledge our students need and help them recall it through carefully planned progression throughout our curriculum. Content and skills are clearly defined in our carefully crafted schemes of work.
We aim to build on knowledge acquired at KS2 by developing the ability and courage to read coherently and perceptively as well as to write and speak expressively. The desire is for the knowledge acquired to drive forward future opportunities of our learners at KS5 and beyond.
English and literacy have an integral role across the school community, and we aim to track and utilise all opportunities to promote and capture these. English underpins a child’s success.
We ensure the level of challenge is high, with clear personalised support for our learners, who require it. At the heart of our intent, is opportunity for all.
Year 8
In Year 8 students will continue to be taught a range of fiction and non-fiction, including a selection of GCSE style poems on war and texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. The lessons will aim towards incorporating the skills required of students at GCSE such as inferring, deducing, comparing, synthesising and having the resilience to complete extended writing tasks. Students should be exposed to subject terminology and start to enhance their PEEL style analysis at word level with a focus on developing their ability to discuss the effects of language features on different audiences.
Year 9
Students start to begin to develop and embed the skills required for both the Literature and Language AQA specification. This will include an initial reading of Macbeth, approaches to poetry and reading a range of texts from across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The lessons will aim to develop the students’ ability to infer and deduce key information, whilst enabling them to provide an effective analysis of language features used at key word level. The focus is developing their knowledge of language features, how a text is structured and to begin to critically evaluate a writer’s craft.
Year 10
Students start to begin to study the content required for both the Literature and Language AQA specification. This will include their further study of Macbeth, A Christmas Carol and a selection of 15 poems. The lessons will aim to develop and embed the students’ ability to infer and deduce key information, whilst enabling them to provide an effective analysis of language features used at key word level. The focus is embedding their knowledge of language features, how a text is structured and to begin to critically evaluate a writer’s craft.
Year 11
Students will follow the AQA specification for both English Language and English Literature. This will include their study of An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol and a selection of 15 poems. The lessons will aim to embed and hone the students’ ability to infer and deduce key information, whilst enabling them to provide an effective analysis of language features used at key word level.
For English Language, students will have to develop their ability to infer and deduce key information, but also the ability to synthesise, compare and contrast viewpoints presented. Both qualifications will expose students to a variety of texts including those from both the 19th, 20th and 21st century.
Developing their knowledge of subject terminology will be at the centre of both courses.
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