Assessment Schedule
Please see the Year 7 - 9 Assessment Policy, Schedule and Malpractice Policy for a detailed Assessment Schedule.
Term 1 - We can be heroes
In this unit, students will explore heroism through various non-fiction texts, including biographies, articles, speeches, and picture books. They will analyse main ideas, themes, and language features to understand social, personal, ethical, and philosophical issues. Students will use different reading strategies to revisit texts, exploring how repetition, patterning, and language shape perspectives and meaning. They will also investigate how audience perspectives affect engagement and responses, demonstrating their insights through written, spoken, visual, and multimodal responses.
Term 2 - Fractured fairy tales
Students analyse traditional fairytales through The Grimm Brothers Spectaculum and Hoodwinked to understand narrative elements like setting, plot, and sub-plot. They explore how these elements represent events and engage audiences with ideas and values, examining character construction and language techniques. Students experiment with adapting texts for different contexts and purposes, recognising the interconnectedness of textual features. They compose visual and multimodal texts to represent ideas, focusing on sentence-level grammar and punctuation.
Term 3 - Overcoming adversity
Students explore the key theme of overcoming adversity as it is demonstrated through a novel. The unit uncovers the main ideas and themes, engaging with their layers of meaning and personal responses. It emphasises purposeful communication and the role of reading in self-understanding and connecting to the world. Students learn to use language and text to represent different perspectives, analyse how figurative language communicates ideas, and craft engaging personal voices. They also practise selecting and organising evidence to strengthen arguments and establish authority.
Term 4 - We're going on a journey
Students will explore the concept of journeys through various expressive forms—poetry, visual arts, digital media, and multimodal texts. They will create engaging spoken and written works, refining their skills in intonation, emphasis, volume, pace, and timing. Additionally, they will write persuasive texts with a clear thesis, structured arguments, and a cohesive conclusion, using both subjective and objective evidence. They will also analyse and describe the rhetorical and aesthetic qualities of texts, examining how these elements shape style and genre.