Secondary Key Stage 3 English Long Term Planning
Autumn Term
Animals
Spring Term
Imagination and Mystery
Summer Term
Treasure Island
Year 1
Autumn 1-George Orwell-Animal Farm
(1945) 6 weeks Fiction
Autumn 2- Non-Fiction 4 weeks fact sheets,
campaign literature (RSPCA),
Poetry 2 weeks-The Eagle-A Tennyson
Bat-D.H.Lawrence
Caterpillar-C Rosetti
Yeti-Michael Morpurgo
The Spider and the Fly- Mary Howitt.
Alternative poems.
Exploring Differences
Spring 1-Macbeth (Shakespeare) 6 weeks play.
Spring 2- Non-Fiction 4 weeks-Pendle Witchesarticles, research, interviews, reports.
Poetry 2 weeks- Witches stew-Gareth Lancaster.
The Witch-Mary E. Colebridge
Nonsense poems
English Heritage
Summer 1-Treasure Island-Robert Louis
Stevenson (1883) fiction 6 weeks.
Summer 2- Non-Fiction 4 weeks-diaries, log
books (based on topic treasure island)
Poetry 2 weeks- Pirate Wind-Mary J Carr
Traditional Sea Shanties e.g. Booby Shaftoe
went to sea/Drunken Sailor.
Science Fiction
Year 2
Autumn 1- Meera Syal- Bhaji on the Beach
(1993) and Anita and Me (2002) 6 weeks
Fiction
Autumn 2 –Non-Fiction 4 weeks letters and
postcards.
Poetry 2 weeks- Racism and the Culture of
Racism-Trade Martin (modern)
De Poem-Denis Young
Spring 1- Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice (1813) 6
weeks Fiction.
Summer 1- H.G.Wells-The Time Machine
(1895) 6 weeks Fiction
Spring 2- Non-Fiction 4 weeks-essays, brochures and
leaflets-link to William Wordsworth.
Summer 2-Alternative Fiction 6 WEEKS-Sci Fi
and Comics e.g. Star Wars, MARVEL,
Traditional Comics
Poetry 2 weeks by William Wordsworth e.g. Lucy
Gray, Daffodils, Upon Westminster Bridge.
Crime
Auto/biography
Food
Autumn 1- Millions by
Frank Cotterall Boyce
Autumn 2- Non-Fiction- Factsheets, reviews
and pen portraits of infamous criminals.
Poetry- based on crime, rhyming couplets,
similes and metaphors.
Spring 1- David Beckham/Wayne Rooney and George
Best/Bobby Charlton- Fiction
Summer 1-Charles Dickens-Oliver Twist (1838)
Year 3
Spring 2-Non-Fiction- write own
autobiography/biography.
Summer 2- Non-Fiction-recipes and
instructions.
Poems- Rosen and McGough
Poetry- based on sport- shape poems.