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English

All information on what will be taught in English lessons and how you can support your child at home, can be found by clicking on the year groups and the links below. Click HERE for the subject learning journeys and click HERE for the subject intent sheet for KS2 or HERE for KS3.

Year 5

Michaelmas Term	Lent Term	Trinity Term
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Lego Unit	Non Fiction (Part A)	Myths, Legends & Fables (SPAG & Reading)
Adventure and Poetry	Non Fiction (Part B)	Myths, Legends & Fables (Developing Writing)

Year 6

Michaelmas Term	Lent Term	Trinity Term
Formal Language & Letters and Fiction Genres	Instruction writing, Developing reading comprehension skills	Engaging the reader through narrative writing
Just So’ Stories and Animal Poetry	* A focus on description and developing characters in narrative writing * Creating atmosphere in diary entries. * Developing reading comprehension skills: inference and retrieval skills * Revision of key SPaG terminology	Proof-reading and editing skills and Author Studies

Year 7

Michaelmas Term	Lent Term	Trinity Term
Boy – Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl Exploring the importance of context to a novel. Focus on language techniques and structure. Developing pupil's comprehension and inference skills.	Journey to Jo`burg, Beverley Naidoo Exploring the importance of context to a novel. Focus on inference, deduction, and comprehension skills.	Exploring Poetry An introduction to poetry – focus on analytical skills and poetry terminology. Selection of poems. Comparing and contrasting parts of poems.
Spy Fiction Exploring the elements of an engaging spy story. Creating realistic characters and planning/writing spy stories. Writing to entertain and describe.	The World of Nature Exploring how people write about the world of nature. Looking at nature campaigns, protection of the environment and environmental pollution. Focusing on language skills – persuading, arguing, describing, and explaining.	Alter Egos – Suspense and Tension Exploring texts that are based around the concept of alter egos – split identities. Focusing on ace, tension, vivid imagery, narrative voice, and viewpoints.

Year 8

Michaelmas Term	Lent Term	Trinity Term
Exploring World War One Poetry Poetry and prose (both pre- and post-1914) centered on war and conflict. Study of Wilfred Owen poems. Comparing and contrasting WW1 poems.	The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne Exploring the importance of context to a novel. Making comparisons to texts from ‘Myths and Legends’, i.e. Fable with morals.	Exploring Horror/Gothic stories – Transition Unit to High School
Travel writing (Non-fiction) Exploring various travel writing texts. Focus on style, purpose, audience, language, and form. Writing to persuade, entertain, describe, and complain.	Exploring Horror/Gothic stories – Transition Unit to High School Short extracts from various gothic novels and poems (Dracula, Raven, The Woman in Black, etc.) and short stories, e.g. The Monkey's Paw.	W. Shakespeare – The Tempest Focusing on Elizabethan Theatre, biography of W. Shakespeare and Shakespearean English. Getting an overview of plots, characters, settings, and themes of the studied plays

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