Year 9
Half term
SoW
Autumn
Story from a
stimulus
Autumn
Pre-1914 short
stories
Spring
Writing to
Persuade
Description of
task, skills
and text
Students will
write a chapter
of a story from a
stimulus.
List of texts: The
Tell Tale Heart,
The Black Cat, A
Vendetta, The
Yellow
Wallpaper, The
Red Room, A
Monkey’s Paw,
The Signalman,
Jekyll and Hyde
(to extend more
able).
Assessment
task: You are to
persuade the
Lottery that you
should be given
funding of
£50,000 to be
spent in a
project of your
choice. These
could include:
improvements
to your local
park, school or
youth club.
S&L: individual
presentation to
the class.
Using “Memoirs
of a Geisha”
(both film and
novel) students
will select a
scene and write
the following
chapter.
They may write
in first or third
person. Unit
should cover
description and
characterisation.
Question
comparing how
the writer
creates
horror/tension/
suspense etc
may be
differentiated
according to
capabilities of
the class.
Autumn
Writing to
Argue
Write an
argumentative
letter in
response to a
current news
article.
Autumn
A Christmas
Carol
How does
Scrooge’s
character
develop
throughout the
play?
Summer
Romeo and
Juliet and
Poetry
How are the
parental-child
relationships
presented in
‘Romeo and
Juliet’ and a
poem (teacher
to choose
according to
their class).
Summer
Autobiography
Assessment
task: Write the
introductory
chapter of your
autobiography.
Students should
focus on a
particular
memory, eg sad
or happy.
Poems may
include: Praise
song for my
mother, Daddy,
Catrin.
Year 8
Half term
SoW
Description of
task, skills
and text
Argumentative
discourse
markers should
be taught
explicitly.
Speaking and
listening –
discussion
In groups,
Spring
Shakespeare
Play will change
each year
according to
the
performance at
the Globe that
we will take the
students to see.
Task: Imagine
you have seen a
performance of
‘the play’
during the
Elizabethan era.
Write a
descriptive
account of your
Summer
Magazine
project
Students are to
work in groups
to come up with
a theme for a
magazine and
then write
articles
individually.
Focus on
teaching writing
to explain,
inform and
entertain.
Speaking and
listening skills
could also be
Summer
Poetry
Contemporary
poetry –
Compare and
contrast the
poetic
techniques
used to
explore the
theme of
Identity in
‘Checking Out
Me History’
and ‘Presents
from my Aunt
in Pakistan’
Students will
also have
respond to an
Unseen poem
students discuss
a proposal for a
new board
game. They are
assessed on
their discussions
– no
presentations.
Board games
will no longer be
produced.
journey, the
theatre and the
performance.
assessed here –
presentation of
magazine with
questions, eg:
to decide what
goes on the
front cover
during this Unit.
Year 7
Half term
SoW
Description of
task, skills
and text
Autumn
Writing for
different
purposes.
Different types
of writing will be
assessed over
the half term.
Autumn
Language across
time
Spring
Advertising
Spring
War Horse
Summer
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Longer term
Homework
project to be
included.
In groups,
students create
a product and
pitch their idea.
Report Writing
(crime scene
investigation);
Blog/ Diary/
Recount;
Poetry –
Writing of
personification
poems and
responding to a
poem where PEE
will be
introduced.
Explore the
history of the
English language
from its origins
through to
Chaucer and
Shakespeare to
the modern era
with its
influences
today, including
technology and
Shakespearean
phrases that we
use today.
Students will
produce
different types
of writing for
assessment – a
letter, the script
for a radio
advertisement,
the transcript
and rundown of
their pitch for
funding,,
explaining the
details of their
Advertising
Campaign etc.
.Assessment
task: Explore
the importance
of the "No
Man's Land"
scene and
discuss why this
is effective for
an audience.
Reading
assessment:
How does the
character of
Gretel develop
throughout the
novel?
Writing
assessment: A
range of tasks to
be included in
scheme –
teachers to
record best level
in online
markbook.
Students should
be writing in
character.
S&L –
homework
project.
Students given a
research task
from a range
available
(differentiated).
Present their
findings.