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Course Notes

During this last year of Key Stage 3 students will continue to work on all aspects of language and communication skills. Students will be helped to acquire a solid grounding in all reading and writing skills as well as oral and listening skills so that as active communicators and readers they can look forward to the Key Stage 4 course with real confidence.

Students will work on pre-1900 texts, including “Macbeth”, which is a core text for the SATs examination in the summer term. They will also study aspects of genre, poetry, drama and the novel, together with non-literary and media texts.

All students are expected to be self-disciplined in their approach to tasks, many of which will require extended pieces of work. Regular reading and a structured approach to the writing process are essential.

More mature book lists will be available to guide students’ choices of personal reading.

As you might expect, students are helped to show greater sophistication and control in their language choices than in Years 7 & 8.