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| Departmental Staff | ||
| Curriculum Leader: | Mrs S Wills | |
| Assistant Curriculum Leader/Key Stage 3 Lead: | Miss E Jarvis | |
| Key Stage 4 Lead: | Miss J Stacey | |
| Key Stage 5 Lead: | Mr J Bulpett | |
| Subject Teachers: | Mrs K Bloomfield | Miss P Martin |
| Mr S Castle | Miss J Naylor | |
| Ms M Kelly | Miss J Smith | |
| Mrs L Marques-Darling | Miss L Smith | |
| SLT Line Manager: | Mrs L Marques-Darling | |
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English Journey
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Key Stage 3
At Key Stage 3 students have 8 lessons each fortnight and are banded into broad groups based on ability. The main programmes of work in each year of Key Stage 3 are summarised as follows with further details contained in schemes of work:
Year 7
- Magical Worlds – Using Harry Potter as a stimulus for creative writing and reading and analysing Alice in Wonderland
- Mystery and Detection – Short stories of crime fiction
- Narrative poetry – Ballads
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Schemes of Work – Year 7
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Year 8
- Shakespearean Comedy – Reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Science in Fiction – Reading Frankenstein and learning about some of the science behind it
- Diversity in fiction – Reading The Bone Sparrow Fantasy – Reading The Graveyard Book or The Lie Tree
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Schemes of work – Year 8
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Year 9
- Classic and Gothic Literature – Reading Jekyll and Hyde or Woman in Black
- Happy Ever After? – Reading Romeo and Juliet
- Innocence and Experience – Modern and historical war poetry
- Diversity in Fiction – Reading My Name is Leon
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Schemes of work – Year 9
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Key Stage 4
GCSE English is a core subject and is studied by all students at Key Stage 4. All students study for the GCSE in English Language and the GCSE in English Literature. There is also a Speaking and Listening Exam.
At Key Stage 4 we offer a choice of the following courses:
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GCSE English
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GCSE Handbook
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Key Stage 5
At Key Stage 5 we offer a choice of the following courses (please click on the links below to visit the Sixth Form Website):
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A-Level English Language
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A-Level English Literature
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