English Cross-curricular links
All year
Writing skills
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Year 7 English –
Writing skills practised
throughout all lessons,
extended writing assessed at
the end of each half term.
Year 7 English –
Students write assessments looking
at the History of English and Myths
and Legends, both creatively and
analytically.
Year 7 English –
Students complete creative and
analytical assessments on Rhetoric.
Year 7 English –
Students complete creative and
analytical assessments on
Coraline and the Odyssey.
Summer Term
Year 8 English –
Writing skills practised
throughout all lessons,
extended writing assessed at
the end of each half term.
Year 8 English –
Students write assessments on
Victorian Literature and Spiritual
Poetry, both creatively and
analytically.
Year 8 English –
Students complete creative and
analytical assessments on Of Mice
and Men.
Year 8 English –
Students complete creative and
analytical assessments on Othello
Year 9 English –
Writing skills practised
throughout all lessons,
extended writing assessed at
the end of each half term.
Year 9 English –
Students write assessments on A
View from the Bridge and a bovel
both creatively and analytically.
Year 9 English –
Students complete creative and
analytical assessments on
Shakespeare.
Year 9 English –
Students complete creative and
analytical assessments on spoken
language.
Year 10 English –
Writing skills practised
throughout all lessons. This is
assessed through pieces of
coursework and controlled
assessments.
Year 10 English –
Students complete creative writing
coursework.
Year 10 English –
Students complete creative writing
coursework
.
Year 10 English –
Students complete literature
coursework on Shakespeare and
poetry.
Year 11 English –
Writing skills practised
throughout all lessons. This is
assessed through pieces of
coursework and controlled
assessments
Year 11 English –
Students redraft and improve all
coursework.
Year 11 English –
Exam preparation for A View from
the Bridge and Unseen poetry.
Year 11 English –
Students do final preparation for
exams.
Year 12 English –
Students write coursework on
pieces of literature and
Year 12 English –
Students write coursework on
various texts.
Year 12 English –
Written exam preparation.
Year 12 English –
Students do final preparation for
exams
prepare for extended writing
exam.
Reading skills
Year 13 English –
Students write coursework on
pieces of literature and
prepare for extended writing
exam
Year 7 English –
Reading skills practised
throughout all lessons.
Students assessed on reading
at the end of each half term.
Renlearn library reading
compulsory and monitored.
Year 13 English –
Students write coursework on
various texts
Year 13 English –
Written exam preparation
Year 13 English –
Students do final preparation for
exams
Year 7 English –
Students write analytically
throughout the unit.
Comprehension assessment at the
end of the units on Myths and
Legends and The History of English.
Year 7 English –
Students practise reading skills
throughout unit in preparation for
analytical assessment on political
speeches.
Year 7 English –
Students practise reading skills
throughout unit in preparation
for analytical assessment on
Coraline and The Odyssey.
Year 8 English –
Reading skills practised
throughout all lessons.
Students assessed on reading
at the end of each half term.
Renlearn library reading
compulsory and monitored.
Year 8 English –
Students write analytically
throughout the unit.
Comprehension assessment at the
end of the units on Victorian
Literature and Spiritual Poetry.
Year 8 English –
Students practise reading skills
throughout unit in preparation for
analytical assessment on Of Mice
and Men.
Year 8 English –
Students practise reading skills
throughout unit in preparation
for analytical assessment on
Othello.
Year 9 English –
Reading skills practised
throughout all lessons.
Students assessed on reading
at the end of each half term.
Renlearn library reading
compulsory and monitored.
Year 9 English –
Students write analytically
throughout the unit.
Comprehension assessment at the
end of the units on A View from
the Bridge.
Year 9 English –
Students practise reading skills
throughout unit in preparation for
analytical assessment on Twelfth
Night.
Year 10 English –
Reading assessed in both
exams and controlled
assessments. Skills taught
throughout the year.
Year 10 English –
Read Purple Hibiscus in order to
write coursework. Reading
comprehension for exams.
Year 10 English –
Read Purple Hibiscus in order to
write coursework. Reading
comprehension for exams.
Year 9 English –
Students practise reading skills
throughout unit in preparation
for analytical assessment on
political speeches.
Year 10 English –
Read Shakespeare and Victorian
poetry in order to write literature
coursework.
Maths skills
Year 11 English –
Reading assessed in both
exams and controlled
assessments. Skills taught
throughout the year.
Year 11 English –
Read Shakespeare and Victorian
poetry in order to write literature
coursework.
Year 11 English –
Students read A View from the
Bridge in preparation for the
literature exam.
Year 11 English –
Students prepare for reading
exams in language and literature.
Year 12 English –
Reading assessed in both
exams and coursework. Skills
taught throughout the year.
Year 12 English –
Read The Handmaid’s Tale in order
to write coursework.
Year 12 English –
Read A Streetcar Named Desire.
Year 12 English –
Students prepare for reading
exams in literature.
Year 13 English –
Reading assessed in both
exams and coursework. Skills
taught throughout the year
Year 13 English –
Read King Learn and Arthur Miller
in order to write coursework
Year 13 English –
Read King Learn and Arthur Miller
in order to write coursework
Year 13 English –
Students prepare for reading
exams in literature
Year 7 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs.
Year 7 English –
Use maths skills in History of
English when looking at crucial
dates and periods throughout
history.
Year 7 English –
Counting lines, rhythm and beats in
comic poetry.
Year 7 English –
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry.
Year 8 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs
Year 8 English –
Numeracy used to calculate dates
and literary periods especially
focussing on the Victorian.
Year 8 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare
as well as counting line numbers.
Year 8 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in
Shakespeare as well as counting
line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry.
Year 9 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs.
Year 9 English –
Numeracy used to calculate dates
and literary periods, especially post
war American literature. Tension
graphs used in AVFTB
Year 9 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare
as well as counting line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats in
poetry.
Year 9 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in
Shakespeare as well as counting
line numbers.
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry
Year 10 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs
Year 10 English –
Tension graphs used for Purple
Hibiscus. Numeracy needed to
chart the history of Nigeria needed
for context.
Year 10 English –
Tension graphs used for Purple
Hibiscus. Numeracy needed to
chart the history of Nigeria needed
for context.
Year 10 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in
Shakespeare as well as counting
line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry.
Year 11 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs.
Year 11 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare
as well as counting line numbers.
Year 11 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare
as well as counting line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in.
Year 11 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in
Shakespeare as well as counting
line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry.
Year 12 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs.
Year 12 English –
Tension graphs and charting
literary periods.
Year 12 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare
as well as counting line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in.
Year 13 English –
Tension graphs and charting
literary periods
Year 13 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare
as well as counting line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats in
Year 7 English –
Working out how all of the literary
periods fit together through history
Year 7 English –
Rhetoric – decoding dense
speeches from different eras
through history.
Year 13 English –
Numeracy uses sporadically in
English for things such as
calculating dates and plotting
graphs to chart story arcs
Problem solving
skills
Year 7 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
Year 12 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in
Shakespeare as well as counting
line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry
Year 13 English –
Numeracy used for things such as
Iambic Pentameter in
Shakespeare as well as counting
line numbers
Counting lines, rhythm and beats
in poetry
their writing tasks.
Year 8 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
their writing tasks
Year 8 English –
Challenging Victorian texts which
have to be understood and then
related to their contexts.
Year 8 English –
Understanding the American 1930s
context and applying it to a reading
of Steinbeck.
Year 9 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
their writing tasks
Year 9 English –
Timed assessments where
students have to decode a play
script and analyse
Year 9 English –
Decoding Shakespeare and
analysing meaningfully
Year 10 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
their writing tasks.
Year 10 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing.
Year 10 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing
Year 10 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering
thorough and structured
extended writing
Year 11 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
their writing tasks
Year 11 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing
Year 11 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing
Year 11 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering
thorough and structured
extended writing
Year 12 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
Year 12 English –
English exam requires excellent
time management in dividing
amount of time on questions and
Year 12 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
Year 12 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
IT skills
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
their writing tasks
delivering thorough and structured
extended writing.
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing.
Year 13 English –
Students need to negotiate
challenging reading texts in
order to succeed in
assessments, as well as being
creative and imaginative in
their writing tasks
Year 13 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing
Year 13 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering thorough
and structured extended writing
Year 7 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes.
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing.
Year 7 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes. Students
use computers to research context
and type up extended writing.
Year 7 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes. Students
use computers to research context
and type up extended writing.
Year 7 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes.
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing.
Year 8 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes. Students
use computers to research context
and type up extended writing.
Year 8 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes. Students
use computers to research context
and type up extended writing.
Year 8 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes.
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing.
Year 9 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes.
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing.
Year 9 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes. Students
use computers to research context
and type up extended writing.
Year 9 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes. Students
use computers to research context
and type up extended writing.
Year 9 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes.
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing.
Year 10 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
Year 10 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
Year 10 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
Year 10 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
Year 8 English –
Students use renlearn to take
reading tests and quizzes.
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing.
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering
thorough and structured
extended writing.
Year 13 English –
English language exam requires
excellent time management in
dividing amount of time on
questions and delivering
thorough and structured
extended writing
extended writing. Some KS4
type coursework.
extended writing. Some KS4 type
coursework.
extended writing. Some KS4 type
coursework.
extended writing. Some KS4 type
coursework.
Year 11 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing. Some KS4
type coursework.
Year 11 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing. Some KS4 type
coursework.
Year 11 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing. Some KS4 type
coursework.
Year 11 English –
Students use computers to
research context and type up
extended writing. Some KS4 type
coursework.
Year 12 English –
ICT used for research and for
typing up essays and
coursework.
Year 12 English –
ICT used for research and for
typing up essays and coursework.
Year 12 English –
ICT used for research and for typing
up essays and coursework.
Year 12 English –
ICT used for research and for
typing up essays and coursework.
Year 13 English –
ICT used for research and for
typing up essays and
coursework
Year 13 English –
ICT used for research and for
typing up essays and coursework
Year 13 English –
ICT used for research and for typing
up essays and coursework
Year 13 English –
ICT used for research and for
typing up essays and coursework