Lower School Curriculum

Year 7

• Baseline Assessment
• Novel – A Christmas Carol (considering changing to Lord of the Flies)
• Writing to persuade – Analysis of non-fiction and persuasive texts
• Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Literary non-fiction – Character and setting

Year 8

• Gothic fiction
• Poetry
• Novel – Animal Farm
• Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing

 Year 9

• Novel – a choice from: Heroes, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Woman in Black, Of Mice and Men and The Best Short Stories -GUY DE MAUPASSANT
• Travel: Non-fiction and literary analysis
• Shakespeare – Macbeth
• War: Non-fiction poetry and literary analysis
• Dystopian fiction
• Writer’s perspectives

 

GCSE Curriculum

Exam Board: AQA

 Year 10

• An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
• English Language paper 1 – Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Anthology Power and Conflict Cluster

Year 11

• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• English Language paper 2 – Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives
• Unseen Poems
• Anthology Power and Conflict Cluster

To view A-Level course content, please click here.

English Literature.

English Language.