Year 7 scheme: Childhood and Growing Up scheme

This scheme of work is made up of 20 lessons and is designed for year 7 students; it works particularly well at the start of year 7 to support their transition from year 6 to 7. It is based upon, and includes, various short extracts linking to childhood, some are fiction and some are non-fiction: the extracts range from Dahl to Dickens. The scheme covers both writing and analysis skills, and provides various opportunities for assessment; there are also tasks which mirror the English Language AQA specification. The scheme includes detailed lesson outlines/plans for each lesson, and also includes a Nando’s style homework task, with a number of differentiated tasks for different topics.