English

Key Stage 3 (Yr 7-9)

 Year 7

1. Textual detectives (Short Stories)
2. My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece 
3. Modern Poetry
4. Private Peaceful
5. Julius Caesar
6. Epic Narratives

Year 8

1. The Giver
2. The Ruby in the Smoke
3. Speeches for Change
4. Gothic Narratives
5. Poetry
6. Noughts and Crosses (play) 

Year 9

1. Macbeth
2. Great Expectations
3. Media and Creative Writing
4. A View from the Bridge
5. Opinion Writing
6. Unseen Poetry 

Key Stage 4 (Yr 10-11)

 KS4 - All students study both English Language and English Literature GCSE (AQA)

Year 10

1. An Inspector Calls
2. A Christmas Carol
3. English Language Paper 2
4. Power and Conflict Poetry
5. Unseen Poetry
6. Speaking and Listening 

Year 11

1. English Language Paper 1
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. Revision 

Key Stage 5 (yr 12-13)

KS5

English Literature A-Level (Edexcel)

Year 12

1. A Streetcar Named Desire
2. King Lear
3. Mini NEA unit
4. Post 2000 poetry
5. Romantic Poetry
6. Frankenstein
7. Never Let Me Go

Year 13

1. NEA
2. Post 2000 poetry 
3. Revision

Year 12: English Language GCSE (retake only, AQA)

English Language paper 1 and 2 

Independent Learning Resources

 Key Stage 3

• The BBC Bitesize KS3 English website contains tips and quizzes for reading and writing skills.
• Students can complete activities from any of the CGP KS3 English books in the library (titles include KS3 English, Essential Terms, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar and The Study Guide)
• Students should read for pleasure for 30 minutes each evening, regularly changing their book in the library. It would be particularly beneficial for students to read a book by the same author or in the same genre as the one which they are studying in lessons; students should ask their class teacher for guidance on this.
• Students should take an Accelerated Reader quiz once they have completed each independent reading book. These normally need to be completed at school in the library or VLE outside of lesson times.

Key Stage 4

AQA in English Literature and AQA in English Language

• Revision guides published variously by: CGP; York Notes; Collins; OUP; Pearson Education; and Letts are available in the library for our AQA GCSE English Literature texts: An Inspector Calls; Romeo and Juliet; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Sets 1a and 1b only); A Christmas Carol; and the AQA Power & Conflict poetry anthology.
• There are also workbooks and revision guides for the AQA GCSE English Language papers.
• Students should improve their knowledge of the Literature texts by taking tests on the PiXLit App
• The BBC Bitesize AQA Literature website has very clear resources for most of the texts we study.
• The SparkNotes website has more extensive commentary on all texts except the poetry Students should read for pleasure for 30 minutes each evening, regularly changing their book in the library. It would be particularly beneficial for students to read a book by the same author or in the same genre as the one which they are studying in lessons; students should ask their class teacher for guidance on this

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