English
Subject intent
At Hans Price, English is driven by a collaborative, dynamic and forward-thinking team who have developed a strong curriculum, which champions oracy, creativity and a love of reading. English is at the heart of the curriculum because it enables students to have the ability to think critically about themselves and the world around them. We want students to read widely across genres to enhance their cultural capital and give them an increased sense of empathy, self-agency and freedom of imagination. We want to develop students’ ability to craft writing, including knowledge and skills for rhetoric and grammar: to express themselves effectively and creatively. At Hans Price, we pride ourselves on fostering a true appreciation for English in our students. We cultivate a classroom environment where students feel success daily, feel safe to take risks, and feel a real sense of belonging. We strive to send them out into the world as skilled communicators and confident writers with a rich literary knowledge and lifelong love of reading; as a result, we prepare them for life.
Link to KS4 specification
English Language specification
English Literature specification
Curriculum plan
| Year 11 | Literature Paper 2 Preparation/Revision Modern Play ‘An Inspector Calls’ Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Revise all poems for first PPE Unseen Poetry Language Revision Revise Language Paper 1 for PPE | Literature Paper 1 Revision ‘Macbeth’ A Christmas Carol Language Revision Revise Language Paper 2 for PPE | Literature Revision Paper 1 ‘Macbeth’ A Christmas Carol Paper 2 ‘An Inspector Calls’ Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Unseen Poetry Language Revision Paper 1 Creative Reading and Writing Paper 2 Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives |
| Year 10 | 19th Century Novel A Christmas Carol Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Storm on the Island, Prelude, Kamikaze, Checking out me History, London Language Specification Language Paper 1 Creative Reading and Writing. | Shakespearean Play Macbeth Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Ozymandias, My Last Duchess, Charge of the Light Brigade, Remains, Tissue | Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Exposure, Bayonet Charge, Poppies, War Photographer, Emigree Language Specification Language Paper 2 Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives Spoken Language Endorsement Students write and perform their own presentations/speeches
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| Year 9
| Modern Play A View From the Bridge Poetry: The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Harlem Langston Hughes Extracts: Prose: The Bell Jar (extract) by Slyvia Plath Autobiography: Becoming (extract) by Michelle Obama Semi-autobiographical: The Yellow Wallpaper (extract / whole) by Charlotte Perkins Gillman | Sci Fi C19th Text: War of the Worlds by HG Wells (extracts) Poetry: An Address to Potential Aliens John Hegley A Vision Simon Armitage Stars and Planets Norman MacCaig Short Story: Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury and/or All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Non-fiction: Moon Speech Is Spaceflight Colonialism? Earth Looked ‘so fragile’
| Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Poetry: Money by Philip Larkin Promises Like Pie-crust by Christina Rossetti The Poison Tree William Blake Still I Rise Maya Angelou Invictus by William Ernest Henley |
| Year 8
| Modern Novel Animal Farm by George Orwell Poetry: I Dream a World – Langston Hughes The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman The Lake by Roger McGough Non-Fiction: Power-Resistance (CLF shared resources) | Gothic Gothic Anthology: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (extract) The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (extract) The Red Room by HG Wells The Werewolf Angela Carter Click Clack the Rattle Bag by Neil Gaiman Poetry: The Cold Earth Slept Below Percy Bysshe Shelley Spellbound Emily Bronte | Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Poetry: Catrin by Gillian Clarke Invisible Kisses by Lemn Sissay Valentine Carol Ann Duffy Come. And be my Baby – Maya Angelou |
| Year 7
| Telling Tales Telling Tales Anthology: extracts, poetry, speech, autobiography. The following texts are core for reading and creative responses: § I come From by Dean Atta § I Believe by Neil Gaiman § Malala Yousazfai’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech and/or Prologue from I am Malala § Games at Twilight (extract) by Anita Desai Schools might add other texts from the Telling Tales Anthology Modern Novel: Trash by Andy Mulligan | Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (extracts) Poetry: Havisham Carol Ann Duffy A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns A Rose from Concrete Tupac Shakur One Art – Elizabeth Bishop Non-fiction: Children – Education | Shakespeare The Tempest Poetry: Listen Mr Oxford Don John Agard Hollow Vanessa Kissule To My Coral Bones Grace Nicholls Extract from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare |
