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Curriculum Overview KS3 –
Year 7
Subject: English
Overview effective from[date
]:
September 2017
Autumn 2
Autumn 1
Spring 1
Summer 1 Summer 2
Spring 2
Language Paper 2,
Section A/ B
GCSE links: Language
Paper 2, Section A
GCSE links:
Literature Paper 2,
Section A
GCSE links:
Literature Paper 2,
Section B
GCSE links:
Literature Paper 1,
Section B
Imaginative writing
Language paper 1,
Section A/B
2 week primary
transition project
Letters to be
written to primary
schools
Creative response –
my first day at
secondary school
4 weeks
SURVIVAL
Study of a range of
non-fiction extracts
Assessed by:
transactional writing
‘survival guide’ and a
reading response to
an unseen non-fiction
text.
Novel
Study
Buddy
Ways to Live Forever
Tins
Cirque du Freak
Iqbal
Assessed by: an extract
question on
character/theme/setti
ng
Drama
Face
Flour Babies
Assessed by:
responding to an
extract style
question
Conflict
Poetry
Assessed
by:
responding
to an unseen
poem
Villains in
History
Assessed by:
comparing non-
fiction texts
Speech writing
Adventure
Reading
into writing
– themed
fictional
extracts
Assessed by:
creative writing