The study of English, in line with the national curriculum, introduces pupils to the literary canon, enabling students to access rich and engaging poetry, prose, drama and non-fiction from across the ages. The curriculum will enrich pupils’ lives by equipping them with the knowledge needed to become critical and creative thinkers. Pupils will become excellent and influential communicators, in both speaking and writing which will support success across many subjects.

Within our curriculum, pupils will read, understand and analyse texts that offer challenge in order to develop resilient readers and critical thinkers. They will read, understand and analyse texts that are important historically, culturally and socially and also those that reflect our pupils’ own positions and others’ positions in the wider world. Such texts will provide opportunities to make cross-curricular links to a broad range of subjects such as history, geography and PSHE.  

Our pupils will be taught how to use language to become critical thinkers and have the knowledge and tools to confidently, question, influence and shape the world around them. They will appreciate how powerful language can be and be empowered to use it in order for them to have a voice in the world they live.

They will learn to write with fluency, accuracy and creativity and understand grammatical components of English in order to communicate varied and complex ideas with success and accuracy, in both speaking and writing and acquire a broad and extensive vocabulary (which will continually expand) to communicate effectively in writing, analysis and speech .

In order to fully consolidate and expand their knowledge, pupils will be explicitly taught how sequences of learning link within (and outside of) English.

Curriculum Overview