A journey to excellence

English

SUBJECT VISION

In English, we aim to provide an ambitious, sequential and captivating curriculum which takes students beyond their everyday experiences. The curriculum design and delivery endeavours to prepare students for life beyond secondary school, by equipping them with the skills and knowledge to succeed in their personal chosen pathways. Our spiral curriculum builds on the essential skills of reading and writing; analysis and inference; comparison and evaluation; steadily deepening the levels of difficulty as students progress through their learning journey.

We believe in teaching the best in what has been thought and said and helping students to retain this powerful knowledge and gain cultural capital. In English, we feel the best way to achieve this is through the exploration of great, challenging, culturally rich texts which take students through the chronology of ‘the story of English’ from Classical; Early English; Renaissance; Victorian and Modern. Students of all abilities access our wide and challenging curriculum through carefully planned adaptive teaching strategies.

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English KS3 Curriculum at Ivanhoe College:

Year 7 Topics

Autumn	Spring	Summer
We read about Greek gods, heroic mortals and the oral tradition of storytelling.	We then look to Britain and the early English story Beowulf.	Moving on to Middle English, we dip into The Canterbury Tales. We finish the year learning about the most famous Early Modern English writer, William Shakespeare, and his sonnets.

Autumn

Spring

Summer

We read about Greek gods, heroic mortals and the oral tradition of storytelling.

We then look to Britain and the early English story Beowulf.

Moving on to Middle English, we dip into The Canterbury Tales.

We finish the year learning about the most famous Early Modern English writer, William Shakespeare, and his sonnets.

Year 8 Topics

Autumn	Spring	Summer
We begin by focusing on Shakespeare’s plays, looking at a comedy: Much Ado About Nothing.	We then consider the power of persuasion through words and speech as we learn the ‘Art of Rhetoric’.	We then return to love and the natural world through poetry of the Romantic period. We finish Year 8, with an introduction to 19^th Century literature – fiction and non-fiction - which plays a huge part in the student’s upcoming GCSEs.

Autumn

Spring

Summer

We begin by focusing on Shakespeare’s plays, looking at a comedy: Much Ado About Nothing.

We then consider the power of persuasion through words and speech as we learn the ‘Art of Rhetoric’.

We then return to love and the natural world through poetry of the Romantic period.

We finish Year 8, with an introduction to 19^th Century literature – fiction and non-fiction - which plays a huge part in the student’s upcoming GCSEs.

Year 9 Topics

Autumn

Spring

Summer

We begin by reading a full Victorian novel: The Sign of Four´ by Arthur Conan Doyle.

We then start to look at the GCSE theme of power and conflict through WW1 poetry and the play, Journey’s End.

We finish KS3 reading their first GCSE play text - An Inspector Calls - and by starting to perfect their craft at creative writing for their language GCSE.

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Ivanhoe School
Jen Steere (Headteacher)
North Street
Ashby de la Zouch
Leicestershire
LE65 1HX

Tel: 01530 412756
Email: office@ivanhoe.co.uk

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