English
English Key Stage 3
| Curriculum aims ..... for all young people to become | |
| Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society | |
| 1. Key Concepts | |
| 1.1 | Competence |
| b: reading and understanding a range of texts and responding appropriately | |
| 1.2 | Creativity |
| Activity 9: Rights and Wrongs | |
| a: making fresh connections between ideas, experiences, texts and words, drawing on a rich experience of language and literature | |
| c: using imagination to convey themes, ideas and arguments, solve problems, and create settings, moods and characters | |
| 1.3 | Cultural Understanding |
| b: exploring how ideas, experiences, and values are portrayed differently in texts from a range of cultures and traditions | |
| c: understanding how English varies locally and globally, and how these variations relate to identity and cultural diversity | |
| 1.4 | Critical understanding |
| b: assessing the validity and significance of information and ideas from different sources | |
| 2. Key Processes | |
| 2.1 | Speaking and Listening |
| a: present information and points of view clearly and appropriately in different contexts, adapting talk for a range of purposes and audiences | |
| d: engage and audience, using a range of techniques to explore, enrich and explain their ideas | |
| e: listen and respond constructively to others, taking different views into account... | |
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j: use dramatic approaches to explore ideas, texts and issues |
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| 2.2 | Reading for meaning |
| Activity 18: Energy and Global Warming | |
| a: Extract and interpret information, events, main points and ideas from text | |
| 3. Range and Content | |
| 3.1 | Speaking and Listening should be in... |
| b: Informal group or pair discussion | |
| c: Individual or group improvisation and performance | |
| 3.2 | Reading: texts chosen should be |
| b: interesting and engaging, allowing pupils to explore their present situation or move beyond it to experience different times, cultures, viewpoints and situations | |
| h: forms such as journalism, travel writing, essays, reportage, literary non fiction and multi modal texts including film. | |
| 4 Curriculum opportunities | |
| 4.1 | Speaking and Listening |
| f: develop speaking and listening skills through work that makes cross curricular links with other subjects | |
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h: participate actively in drama |
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English Key Stage 4 – as Key Stage 3 with the following additions/ changes
| 1.1 |
Competance |
| Activity 9: Rights and Wrongs | |
| 1.4 | Critical understanding |
| Activity 9: Rights and Wrongs | |
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c: Forming independent views and challenging what is heard or read on the grounds of logic, evidence or argument |
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| d: analysing and evaluating written and spoken language to explore impact on audience | |
| 2.1 | j: work purposefully in groups, negotiating and building on the contributions of others to complete tasks or reach consensus |
| 3.2 | c: texts chosen should be challenging, using language imaginatively to create new meanings and effects, and encouraging students to try such writing for themselves |
| 4.1 | i: participate in debate, discussion, liver talks and presentations, engaging in dialogue with experts, members of the community and unfamiliar adults |
| j: Discuss issues of local, national and global concern |
