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Highlands School

Highlands School

English

Curriculum intent

  • The English curriculum has been designed to embed both substantive and procedural knowledge throughout. The curriculum follows a literature-based model, where students are exposed to a breadth of literature across each key stage, with the substantive knowledge running through the curriculum, as a series of strands - our substantive concepts. Each text will offer students an opportunity to develop their understanding of these substantive concepts.

  • The macro-curriculum has been designed to follow a chronological sequence, looking at classic works of the literary canon. At KS3, texts move through the chronology by beginning with Old English, to middle English, early modern and then modern English literature. Alongside the core curriculum texts there are a number of supplementary texts that help to explore the substantive concepts, as well as texts to be read for pleasure that compliment the themes of the core texts.

    • Within the macro-curriculum, each unit will develop students’ procedural knowledge which are broken down into analytical and compositional skills. The procedural knowledge will be sequenced, so students would not be expected to complete all aspects of analytical or compositional skills at one time. These will be linked to specific units, with procedural knowledge embedded and built upon over the course of the curriculum.

      Key stage 3 

        Autumn Term 1 Autumn Term 2
      Year 7

      Beowulf

      Beowulf

      Chaucer 

      Year 8

      Romantics

      Romantics

      Wuthering Heights

      Year 9

      The Tempest

      The Tempest

      Journey's End

       

        Spring Term 1 Spring Term 2
      Year 7

      Chaucer

      Romeo and Juliet

      Romeo and Juliet
      Year 8

      Wuthering Heights

      Drama
      Drama
      Year 9

      Journey’s End

      The Great Gatsby

      The Great Gatsby

       

       

      Key Stage 3

       

      Summer Term 1

      Summer Term 2

      Year 7

      Coram Boy  

      Year 8

         

      Year 9

         

       

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