English
Our curriculum is structured to bring about desirable difficulties in the study of English and to ensure that all students have an opportunity to grow a love and enthusiasm for the subject whilst becoming creative thinkers, skilled writers, proficient communicators and confident readers, thereby giving them the strong foundations necessary to succeed at KS3, KS4 and beyond.
- Provide an inspiring, diverse and challenging curriculum
- Support every student to develop a love of language and literature
- Support students to unleash their true potential by enabling them to achieve the very best examination results possible at KS4
- Provide regular exposure to a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts
- Ignite curiosity and a passion for reading
- Equip our students with high standards of literacy
- Develop critical thinkers
- Build cultural capital within our students by ensuring we are teaching texts in context
- Deliver a curriculum covering literature from a range of times, cultures and traditions
- Help to prepare students for future learning and the world of work
- Communicate how language and literature have been and can be a powerful force in the changing world we live in
Inspire, engage and excite – Key Idea – CONFLICT
At Katherine Warington School, Year 7 is a time for exploring a range of diverse fiction and narrative texts as means of building confidence in the four key English skills of Reading, Writing, Oracy and Accuracy.
Students start and end Year 7 with fantastic reading opportunities which allow them to develop a passion for fiction and narrative and this persistent focus on reading skills creates a strong basis for students to become the creators of their own texts when they explore creative and persuasive writing later in the school year.
Autumn Term 1&2
War and Conflict Literature
Private Peaceful by Micheal Morpurgo
Reading
Transition assessment
Analytical essay
Spring Term 1
The Power of Language
Selected speeches: Greta Thunberg, Martin Luther King
Oracy
Persuasive speech
Spring Term 2
Shakespeare
Comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Reading
Analytical essay
Summer Term 1
The Hero’s Journey
Selected extracts: Beowulf, Theseus & The Minotaur (and many more)
Writing
Narrative and descriptive writing
Summer Term 2
Literature from around the World
Selected poetry and extracts: Englan’ Voice, Search for my Tongue, The Breadwinner (and many more)
Writing
Creative writing project (diary, poetry, description)
Enrichment/Extracurricular
Whole school oracy event, Revision workshops, Read aloud, Youth Speaks competition, Poetry by Heart competition
- Big Purple Challenge (Year group reading challenge)
- Spooky story competition
- Inter-form poetry competition
- Anthony Glenn visit – live performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Trip to The Globe