English Curriculum
Vision
We believe every young person has the right to a high-quality English education, rooted in the highest quality literature, and that the knowledge they learn through English prepares them fully for their academic, emotional and social futures.
Our carefully chosen literature, building from pre-complex to challenging and seminal, is at the centre of the curriculum, seeking to represent the best of the discipline: novels, short stories, extracts from fiction and literary non-fiction, poetry and drama that speak to the human condition and celebrate its incredible diversity by ensuring engagement with a range of identities, cultures, viewpoints and concerns, spanning the literary timeline.
Through the study of this literature, we teach our pupils about those who are different to us; developing the qualities of empathy, enquiry and understanding.
We teach our pupils how to express themselves academically and to critically question what they read so that they have the skills to navigate the competitive and complex world beyond school in their written and verbal communication. As a result, pupils are confident in themselves as creators, as well as consumers, of language and literature.
Our curriculum aims to meaningfully enrich the lives of our pupils, fostering a love of literature and the English language.
