KS3 & KS4 English curriculum

Pupils explored a wide range of poetry in our primary curriculum, with a focus on how poets, including Joseph Coelho and Matt Goodfellow, responded to place in their poems. Pupils now read more complex secondary poets, and start to use analytical skills to explore the methods writers use to respond to place. They also start to emulate those more complex techniques so that their poetry writing and appreciation becomes more accomplished. Later in the curriculum, pupils look at Maya Angelou's poetry in depth to explore how context shapes a writer's voice, and then find their own poetic voice.

1. Considering the nature of home
2. Exploring memories of home in the poem ‘Childhood Tracks’
3. Analysing 'Search for My Tongue'
4. Analysing the poem 'Island Man' by Grace Nichols
5. Comparing poems about place and home
6. Exploring regional pride in the poem ‘Anthem of the North’
7. Analysing ‘This Poem is Taking Place on Stolen Land’
8. Exploring the link between place and identity
9. Exploring what home means through the poem ‘Filter’
10. Planning ideas for a poem about your home
11. Using punctuation in poetry
12. Exploring example poems about place and home
13. Writing our own poetry about home
14. Performing our poems about place and home