Our English Curriculum is a text-based curriculum with texts carefully selected to promote students’ exploration of English and to widen their cultural capital.

As an example, please take a look at the places and ages the Secondary texts take us to…

When teaching from a text, a teacher will teach via three main stages:

1) Preparing learners to study new texts.

Teachers will check the text for any contextual knowledge and  vocabulary that you believe learners will need to know in advance of each lesson. Some words will need a lot of attention others are more rapidly learned.

2) Reading

• The teacher will read the text aloud with prosody. Learners have a copy and track with the teacher making allowances for a break in tracking for some learners.
• As texts get longer and broken up over lessons, summary and recap is key before reading further.
• Some texts lend themselves well, in parts, to choral reading of particular lines.
• After reading the text, learners will practice selecting and skimming, finding literay strategies as well as infering meaning.

Crucially, learners will know that everything the writer did was on purpose, for effect. The writer wanted to make us THINK, FEEL, KNOW, DO or LEARN something.

3) Express/Apply text related  knowledge

• Teachers made wish to use the parent text to look at:

Informative pieces ( Talk and writing)

Opinion pieces ( Talk and writing)

Creations- Focusing on specific extracts of high crafting value in the text, deconstruct then set shadow tasks so learners can apply learning in a similar context.

Please see the documents below for examples of the texts we study and the themes they explore: