1. Year 7 Information Evening: English
Pictured above are topics from the Year 7 curriculum

2. Year 7 Information Evening: English
An overview of the curriculum
Setting and assessment
Monitoring student progress
Homework expectations and ways to support your child at home

4. The Year 7 Curriculum: topics and skills
Skills focus
Adventure Fiction
Writing
Using language and structure for effect.
Experimenting with story structures.
Experimenting with viewpoint.
Outsiders: Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
Reading
Inference skills, reading between the lines.
P.E.E. paragraphs – Point/ Evidence/ Explanation.
Analysis skills: word choices, writer’s message/s etc.
Protest and Persuasion
Speaking and Listening
Discussion and debate.
Using language persuasively.
Presenting your own views to others.
Powerful Poetry
Using language and structure creatively.
Developing control over grammatical structures.
Experimenting with voice.
Moving Image: Anime (Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki)
Developing an understanding of genre.
Using film-specific terminology accurately.
Using P.E.E. paragraphs to structure your analysis.
Shakespeare: The Tempest
- Speaking and Listening
Drama skills: creating character through voice and movement.
Improvising.
Reflecting on your own performance.

5. Tracking student progress
Curriculum overview in all students’ exercise books
A record of the grades of their assessed pieces of work
Tracks the grades achieved against expected progress (based on KS2 scores)

7. Year 7 recommended reading list
Put together by the school librarian
All titles available in the Resource Centre
Available on the school VLE