Intent

At Lindsworth we place great importance on an English curriculum which develops our pupils.

English is mapped to include coverage of the national curriculum and prepares and equips pupils with the knowledge skills and understanding for life in modern Britain.  Our Curriculum is designed to challenge, engage and motivate in the hope that our learners progress academically and become successful, confident individuals.

Our English curriculum is ever changing and is planned according to the needs of our pupils.  This means that changes are constantly made depending on their pupils’ experiences and changing circumstances.

Implementation

We aim to teach our pupils the range of skills as stated in the AQA assessment objectives.  Each scheme is developed making use of the Assessment Objectives (AOs) for reading, writing, speaking and listening.

KS3

We teach reading as a whole class from year 7 to 9 with a focus on understanding and applying reading skills (the writer’s craft).  Reading across the curriculum and reading for pleasure is an important part of our curriculum and one which we are implementing with the use of a class reader.

To implement our intent, lessons are engaging and follow a theme which is designed to interest, inform and inspire.

Impact

It is our hope that pupils leave Lindsworth school with an understanding of academic content and an understanding of how to be socially and culturally responsible and aware.  It is our hope that pupils will know how to make positive contributions to their community and how to be the best they can be.

Year 7 Skills focus – The writer’s use of language, narrative structure and engaging the audience.	Year 8 Skills focus – Narrative structure, Writer’s use of genre, writer’s use of character.	Year 9 Skills focus – Writing non-fiction texts, writing for a range of purposes, writer’s use of techniques.
The modern novel The World’s Worst Children	The modern novel  The Hunger Games	Writing non-fiction
Narrative structure The Boy at the Back of the Class	Reading and Writing  Science Fiction	Writing for purpose and Story writing.
Narrative Writing	Poetry	War poetry
Poetry	Gothic Horror	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Gothic novel)
Shakespeare	Shakespeare	Shakespeare
Who Dunnit?	Detectives	Of Mice and Men

 

 

KS4

Year 10	An Inspector Calls English Literature	Frankenstein English Literature	Shakespeare English Literature
Year 11	Poetry – Power and Conflict	English Language Paper 1	English Language paper 2

 

GSCE English Language breakdown is as follows:

Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing
Assessed written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes 80 marks 50% of GCSE

 

Paper 2: Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives
Assessed written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes 80 marks 50% of GCSE

 

GCSE English Literature breakdown as follows:

 

 

Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
How it's assessed written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes 64 marks 40% of GCSE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper 2: Modern texts and poetry
How it's assessed written exam: 2 hour 15 minutes 96 marks 60% of GCSE