Courses
Overview
English
Introduction
As part of an ambitious English curriculum, all learners are encouraged to appreciate the power and beauty of language in reading, writing and speaking and listening. We want to enrich our students’ cultural capital: to develop a curiosity about the world now, how it used to be and what it might become. In English lessons, we will challenge young people to become critical readers and thinkers, promoting empathy and tolerance through engaging with a broad range of literary texts beyond exam specifications. We recognise English is a gateway to all other subjects across the curriculum and we will equip students with the literacy skills needed for success in life beyond school.
Course leader
L Little and H Burton
Curriculum
Curriculum roadmap
Skills and requirements
Key concepts
Reading
These concepts build cumulatively throughout the curriculum and will enable all students to become successful in reading:
- Understand or retrieve information from texts.
- Textual references.
- Structures used by writers.
- Use of language.
- Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives.
- Relate texts to social, cultural and historical traditions.
Writing
These concepts build cumulatively throughout the curriculum and will enable all students to become successful in writing:
- Sentence structures.
- Technical accuracy of spelling and punctuation.
- Sequencing and structure.
- Paragraphs and discourse markers.
- Form, audience and purpose.
- Appropriate and effective vocabulary.
Progress expectations
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