Assessment Schedule
Please see the Year 7 - 9 Assessment Policy, Schedule and Malpractice Policy for a detailed Assessment Schedule.
Term 1 - Write before your eyes
Students will read diverse texts—poetry, spoken word, and prose—to deepen their understanding and personal response. They will reflect on how reading broadens their worldview and addresses universal themes. By analysing language and text for literal and implied meanings, students will enhance their own writing and recognise how language varies by context, purpose, and audience. They will demonstrate their grasp of language forms through various responses and apply figurative language devices in their compositions, including visual and multimodal works.
Term 2 - Sustainable stories: A novel study
Students will analyse a novel to understand its themes and ideas, using personal experiences to deepen their insights. They will examine how repetition, patterns, and language convey social, personal, ethical, and philosophical issues, focusing on sustainability. By exploring how audience and cultural context influence text responses, they will learn to construct arguments using specific language techniques and apply these in their writing. They will demonstrate control over structure and grammar, producing well-organised texts with a clear introduction, logical progression, and effective conclusion, paying attention to sentence-level grammar and punctuation.
Term 3 - Distinctively visual
Through the graphic novel Coraline, students will examine how visual texts are adapted into film, analysing narrative patterns, themes, and conventions. They will explore how thematic and stylistic elements impact a text's value and use model texts to guide their own writing. Students will seek feedback to refine clarity and impact, and consider how compositional choices and modal elements influence meaning and reader response.
Term 4 - On the lighter side
Students will explore different types, purposes, and effects of humour across various texts. By reading, viewing, and listening, they will analyse how humour is created through language, features, and text structures. They may study entire texts or extracts, examining humour’s reception in different contexts. Texts may include cartoons, memes, scripts, poetry, and TV show excerpts. Students will apply their understanding to create their own humorous texts.