As a department, we aim to ensure that our students engage confidently with the world around them by developing their ability to communicate to the highest possible level. Our curriculum guides students to be careful and discerning readers, to write accurately, purposefully and creatively, to be reflective listeners and to voice their ideas with integrity. We see the literature we present to our students as the shape of human experience and as a cultural touchstone for our students’ lives.
In Key Stage 3 pupils develop their reading, writing and oracy skills by examining literature through three different lenses. Year 7 students engage with the ‘Power of Stories’ (both fiction and non-fiction), responding both analytically and creatively to culturally significant texts. Year 8 students examine a series of important literary movements and genres and their impact on ‘People in Society.’ In Year 9, our literary focus hinges upon ‘The Human Condition’, reflecting upon the way writers explore universal human experiences and concerns. Our programme provides rich stimulus for discussion and creativity and a solid foundation for our AQA GCSE syllabus. Throughout Key Stage 3, we explicitly develop written accuracy, vocabulary choices and independent reading.
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Students follow the AQA syllabus in both English Literature and English Language. We build on students’ Key Stage 3 skills in reading, examining both fiction and non-fiction texts for meaning, to engage with writers’ ideas and to explore their techniques. Students develop their writing skills, learning to construct creative and persuasive texts. In English Literature, we aim to deepen students’ understanding and appreciation of some of the greatest written texts and how their writers comment on the human condition. Students learn to read in depth, reflect critically and to write analytically.
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Students explore and analyse a range of fiction and nonfiction texts. They also write creatively for a range of purposes, including descriptive and persuasive writing. Students are assessed in three areas:
English LiteratureStudents study a range of literary texts in English Literature. These include:
Students are assessed in two areas:
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Students follow the AQA syllabus in both English Literature and English Language in order to build skills cohesively from their Key Stage 4 foundations.
In English Language, students refine their analytical skills through the exploration of meanings and representations in a wide range of non-fiction and spoken language source material. The technical language and methodology acquired at this stage is at the heart of the syllabus. Students then transfer these skills to a fascinating range of sociolinguistic fields including Language Diversity, Language Change and Child Language Acquisition. Creative Writing is also integral to both examined and non-examined modules.
In English Literature, students study texts through two genre lenses: ‘Aspects of Tragedy’ and ‘Social and Political Protest.’ The nature of this focus develops the depth of analysis and interpretation encouraged at Key Stage 4 but also challenges students with the breadth of the subject matter: the exploration of connections between texts places genre as a dynamic process. Students’ analytical perspectives are enhanced by a new understanding of a range of critical theories which can then be applied independently to prose and poetry texts as part of their non-examined assessment.
In both courses, we encourage students to read a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction to enhance their appreciation of the subject and their understanding of linguistic and literary concepts.
A Level Language
A level Literature
For further details please visit: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-literature-b-7716-7717 |