Key Stage 3 English

Our curriculum is conceptual and designed to develop students' sense of English as an academic discipline. Each term we foreground a concept. We introduce and exemplify the concept by using extracts from fiction and non-fiction, poetry, lyrics, images, etc. before exploring how a writer uses the concept in a longer, key text. We provide opportunities to revisit concepts to develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding. Knowledge is carefully sequenced so that it is layered, making connections between and among concepts with constant reference to the foundations: the big ideas.

More information about concepts and key texts can be found on each Key Stage 3 page.