Building on Key stage 2
Our English curriculum is cumulative and sequential, focused on providing our students with knowledge which can be carried forward to underpin future learning; what is taught in Year Seven is retrieved and applied in later years. Overall, the curriculum aims to be ambitious so that our students:
- Read, write and speak with accuracy, proficiency and confidence.
- Acquire knowledge that takes them beyond their usual experiences.
- Are well prepared for terminal examinations and further study.
- Build valuable academic and subject specific vocabulary and terminology.
- Develop cultural capital, the ideas and knowledge that can be drawn upon to participate successfully in society.
- Are exposed to the canon, ‘the best of what has been thought and said’.
- Are exposed to and explicitly taught academic vocabulary, grammar and how to read, write and speak effectively.
