
Year 7
Term 1: Oak National Academy -'The BFG': reading and narrative writing (Roald Dahl)
Term 2: BBC Bitesize - 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
Term 3: BBC Bitesize - Romeo and Juliet plot summary (William Shakespeare)
Term 4: Oak National Academy - Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing
Year 8
Term 2: Oak National Academy - Victorian childhood: non-fiction reading and writing
Term 3: Spark Notes - 'Holes' by Louis Sachar
Term 4: BBC Bitesize - Descriptive Writing
Term 5: BBC Bitesize - 'War Horse' by Michael Morpurgo
Year 9
Term 1 - 2: BBC Bitesize - 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck
Term 2 - 3: BBC Bitesize - 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley
Term 3: BBC Bitesize - How to build tension using sentences
Term 4: BBC Bitesize - Writing to persuade
Term 5: Oak National Academy - Comparing poetry from the First World War