Year 8-Summative
Animal Farm
Communication
Research
Questioning
Speaking and Listening
Writing
Present your speech to the class
Argument/persuasive
Write a propaganda/persuasive
x-curricular links history
speech
20%
40%
October SSA Reporting period
Christmas Carol
Perform the script you have
Text-transformation/directed
Communication
created
reading
Questioning
Scripting- using an extract, turn
Research/Communication
x-curricular links drama
the setting into a script 40%
20%
January SSA Reporting period
Shakespeare
Perform a scene from a
Text-transformation/Directed
Communication
Shakespeare play
writing
Questioning/communication
Re-tell the story in modern
Research/Communication
x-curricular links drama
English
10%
20%
Poetry Ballads
Perform Ballad to music
Narrative writing
Communication
Write own ballad based on a
Questioning/research
x-curricular links music
reading book or film you have
Questioning/communication
10%
seen
20%
March SSA Reporting period
Advertising/Adverts
Film your new advert
Creative writing/persuasive
Communication
writing
Questioning/research/communication
Mini Ad campaign for new product
Questioning/communication
write the product information
Radio ad/jingle
20%
Create Print advert- including
blurb found on the advert
Slogan
40%
Reading
Analysis of Old Major’s speech
40%
PEE paragraphs on character analysis
Scrooge. Interactive oral presentation
(social and historical aspect. IB Link
40%
Analysis of a traditional passage
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Graphic Novels
Abridged versions
20%
Analysis of a Ballad
Lady of shallot
20%
Comparison of 2 print adverts- same
product
Different time settings
Different place
40%
SSA required, but not shared with parent
EOY exam
Writing to narrate or argue
50%
Extract from an advert for analysis
50%
Year 8- Formative-APP
Animal Farm
Speaking and Listening- APP
Mini persuasive ideas- recall
kids speak arguments
AF1, AF4
20%
Writing-APP
Reading-APP

Write leaflet against animal
cruelty
 Write a persuasive letter to
student council
AF2, AF3, AF7
40%

PEE analysis of one of the
speeches in SOL
 Identify differences
between real speech and
fictional speech
AF4, AF5, AF6
40%
October SSA Reporting period
Christmas Carol
Act out parts of your comic strip


Write in style of Dickens,
description of our canteen.
Script dialogue between
characters
Create a comic strip


AF1, AF2, AF5
AF3 20%
40%

PEE paragraphs on Bob
Cratchit, or one of the
ghosts.
 Interactive oral
presentation research
aspect
AF2, AF3, AF7
40%
January SSA Reporting period
Shakespeare. Macbeth/Tempest
Poetry
Perfrm modern transaltion
Present film new scene
Perform monologue
AF3
10%
Write stanzas following pattern
of a ballad based on news story
Perform, clap rhythm
AF3
10%

Turn script into text or
BBM
 Story board a scene/film a
scene in modern Englishcomplete a script
AF1, AF5, AF6
20%
 Write a narrative based on
a news story
 Turn story into a poem
(ballad structure)
AF5, AF6, AF7
20%


PEE paragraphs on
Caliban’s speech
PEE paragraphs on
Macbeth
AF5, AF6, AF7
20%
 Interpret, guess, analyse
the narrative of a balladOrally IOP
AF2, AF3, AF4
20%
March SSA Reporting period
Advertising/adverts
Present the idea for your
product/film
AF1 AF2, AF4
20%

Write a slogan, jingle blurb,
product information write
a persuasive piece based on
your product
 formatively assess
AF6, AF4, AF7
20%

Table showing differences
in 2 drinks products
(Milo/Coke)
 Similarities and differences
between 2 products pupil
choice
AF2, AF4, AF7
40%
SSA required, but not shared with parent
EOY exam
Writing to narrate or argue
50%
Extract from an advert for analysis
50%
Speaking and Listening- SkillsAPP
Writing-Skills-APP
Reading-skills-APP
Animal Farm
AF1 Talking to others
Can you talk about and explore ideas and
feelings in a purposeful and imaginative
way?
AF 4Talking about talk
Can you explain how what people say and
the way they say it creates meaning and
affects others?
AF2 – produce texts which are appropriate
to task, reader and
purpose.
AF3 – organise and present whole texts
effectively
AF7 – select appropriate and effective
vocabulary.
Christmas Carol
AF3 Talking within role play and drama
Can you use techniques to act convincingly
in a role?
AF1 – write imaginative, interesting and
thoughtful texts.
AF2 – produce texts which are appropriate
to task, reader and
purpose.
AF5 – vary sentences for clarity, purpose
and effect.
AF4 – identify and comment on the structure and
organisation
of texts, including grammatical and presentational
features at text level.
AF5 – explain and comment on writers’ use of
language, including grammatical and literary
features at word and
sentence level.
AF6 – identify and comment on writers’ purposes
and viewpoints, and the overall effect of the text on
the reader.
AF2 – understand, describe, select or retrieve
information, events or ideas from texts and use
quotation and reference to
text.
AF3 – deduce, infer or interpret information, events
or ideas from texts.
AF7- to relate texts to their social, cultural and
historical traditions
Shakespeare
AF3 Talking within role play and drama
Can you use techniques to act convincingly
in a role?
AF1 – write imaginative, interesting and
thoughtful texts.
AF5 – vary sentences for clarity, purpose
and effect.
AF6 – write with technical accuracy of
syntax and punctuation
Poetry
Af3 Talking within role play and drama
Can you use techniques to act convincingly
in a role?
AF5 – vary sentences for clarity, purpose
and effect.
AF6 – write with technical accuracy of
syntax and punctuation
AF7 – select appropriate and effective
vocabulary.
Advertising/adverts
AF1 Talking to others
Can you talk about and explore ideas and
feelings in a purposeful and imaginative
way
AF2 Talking with others
Can you work in pairs and groups to
discuss ideas and questions?
AF3 Talking within role play and drama
Can you use techniques to act convincingly
in a role?
AF4 To construct paragraphs and cohesion
within and between
AF6 – write with technical accuracy of
syntax and punctuation…
AF7 – select appropriate and effective
vocabulary.
Year 8 Assessment Foci SKILLS
EOY exam
Writing to narrate or argue 50%
AF5 – explain and comment on writers’ use of
language, including grammatical and literary
features at word and
sentence level.
AF6 – identify and comment on writers’ purposes
and viewpoints, and the overall effect of the text on
the reader.
AF7- to relate texts to their social, cultural and
historical traditions
AF2 – understand, describe, select or retrieve
information, events or ideas from texts and use
quotation and reference to
text.
AF3 – deduce, infer or interpret information, events
or ideas from texts.
AF4 – identify and comment on the structure and
organisation
of texts, including grammatical and presentational
features at text level.
AF2 – understand, describe, select or retrieve
information, events or ideas from texts and use
quotation and reference to
text.
AF4 – identify and comment on the structure and
organisation
of texts, including grammatical and presentational
features at text level.
AF7- to relate texts to their social, cultural and
historical traditions
Extract from advert – analysis 50%