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English scheme of work: Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level

Year 7 · Year 8 · Year 9 · Year 10 · Year 11 · A Level · 36 units in all

Six half-termly units an academic year, set out as one sequence table instead of a page per lesson. The A Level scheme keeps the same shape over a longer span: six units across the two years, to the personal investigation, the coursework or the examinations. Each year is written backwards from what the next one states it assumes on entry, so Year 7 ends where Year 8 needs it to start and nothing is taught twice by accident. Every unit maps to the statutory content. The GCSE books run to 56 to 63 pages each against 35 to 36 pages at Key Stage 3, with printable diagnostics at the back of each. Most departments just call it a SOW.

Board-neutral by construction. No board’s specification is followed. The units map to the Department for Education’s own subject content, which AQA, OCR and Pearson Edexcel each have to cover however they order or label it. A department teaches this sequence whichever board they sit. A change of board does not mean a change of scheme.

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3 years, together or one at a time

Key Stage 3 · first 8 pages of each open here

Cover of Year 7 English Scheme of Work

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Year 7 English Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, covering all four strands of the programme of study. Reading opens the year because writing improves fastest in students who have just read closely, and spoken English closes it because it draws on everything the other five units build.

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Character and Inference
  2. 1b Writing to Describe and Narrate
  3. 2a Poetry: Voice, Image and Sound
  4. 2b Introducing Shakespeare
  5. 3a Myths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
  6. 3b Non-fiction, Argument and Spoken English

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 10 sections ·For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Year 8 English Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. The year adds the three things Year 9 assumes: comparison, control of register for a named audience, and sustained reading of pre-1900 prose.

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Theme and Writer’s Purpose
  2. 1b Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade
  3. 2a Poetry: Comparing Voices
  4. 2b Shakespeare: Power and Consequence
  5. 3a The Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
  6. 3b Media, Bias and the Language of Persuasion

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 10 sections ·For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Year 9 English Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes — a whole nineteenth-century novel, a whole Shakespeare play, comparison across periods, structured creative writing, viewpoint writing and a formal spoken assessment — is met here first, with no marks attached.

  1. 1a The Nineteenth-Century Novel
  2. 1b Creative Writing: Craft and Control
  3. 2a Poetry: Power, Identity and Protest
  4. 2b Shakespeare: A Whole Play
  5. 3a Literature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
  6. 3b Spoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 36 pages, 11 sections ·For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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KS3 English set

Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 — the whole key stage, sequenced as one curriculum rather than three separate years.

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GCSE, Year 10 and Year 11

56 to 63 pages each · both tiers where the subject is tiered · first 8 pages open here · all GCSE schemes of work

Each year described in full, unit by unit: GCSE English scheme of work

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Year 10 English Scheme of Work

Full description on the GCSE English page.

  1. 1a Language: Reading Fiction, and Writing to Describe and Narrate
  2. 1b Literature: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
  3. 2a Literature: Shakespeare
  4. 2b Language: Non-Fiction, Comparison and Writing to a Viewpoint
  5. 3a Literature: The Modern Text — Fiction or Drama from 1914
  6. 3b Poetry Since 1789, and the Spoken Language Endorsement

The GCSE subject content for English language and English literature (DfE, 2013) and the statutory programme of study for key stage 4 (DfE, 2014) · 63 pages, 18 sections ·For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Year 11 English Scheme of Work

Full description on the GCSE English page.

  1. 1a Unseen Poetry, and Reading Without Preparation
  2. 1b Writing: Accuracy, Sustained Composition and the Twenty Per Cent
  3. 2a The Four Set Texts, Deepened
  4. 2b Reading Under Time: Both Language Papers
  5. 3a Revision by Diagnosis
  6. 3b Examination Technique and the Final Fortnight

The GCSE subject content for English language and English literature (DfE, 2013) and the statutory programme of study for key stage 4 (DfE, 2014) · 56 pages, 15 sections ·For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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GCSE English set

Year 10, Year 11 — the whole key stage, sequenced as one curriculum rather than two separate years.

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A Level, both years in one book

Six units across two years · board-neutral, from the subject content and the regulator · first 8 pages open here

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A Level English Literature Scheme of Work

Forty-five pages across two years, board-neutral by construction: every requirement stated here comes from the DfE subject content or from Ofqual’s subject level conditions, never from one board’s set text list. The eight-text minimum, the three pre-1900 texts and the post-2000 requirement are planned in a table before any title is chosen. The non-examined assessment gets a full term with the question signed off by Week 2 and plan-level feedback only from Week 7, and the unseen is taught as a five-step procedure rather than as a talent.

  1. 1a Reading at A Level: Close Analysis and the Critical Voice
  2. 1b Drama and Shakespeare: Meanings Made in Performance
  3. 1c Poetry, and Connections Across Texts
  4. 2a The Non-Examined Assessment: an Independent Comparative Study
  5. 2b Contemporary Writing, Interpretation, and the Unseen
  6. 2c Synoptic Fluency: Diagnosis, Argument and the Examinations

The DfE subject content for AS and A level English literature, and Ofqual’s GCE subject level conditions · 45 pages, 15 sections ·For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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