Our aims
At Ark Kings, our English curriculum aims to ensure our students are literate, articulate and creative. Reading underpins all aspects of the curriculum and we believe there is no greater gift we can give our students than the gift of reading. As such, we deliver an English curriculum that is underpinned by quality texts for children to enjoy. Students also have opportunities to write at length for a variety of audiences and purposes across different subject disciplines.
Nursery
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Key texts Peepo! |
Key texts Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Key texts The Three Little Pigs |
Key texts Rainbow Fish |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Key texts The Enormous Turnip |
Key texts The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Reception
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Key texts Owl Babies |
Key texts How to Catch a Star |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Key texts The Three Billy Goats Gruff |
Key texts Handa's Surprise |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Key texts Eco Girl |
Key texts Katie and the Dinosaurs |
Year 1
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| Key texts The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig | Key texts Beegu Traction Man |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Key texts A Sick Day for Amos McGee | Key text Look Up! |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text The Golden Wonderflower | Key text The Extraordinary Gardener |
Year 2
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Key text Little Red Riding Hood | Key text The Polar Express |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key texts Leaf Meerkat Mail | Key texts Somebody Swallowed Stanley |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Key texts Just So Stories | Key text George's Marvelous Medicine |
Year 3
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Key text Mammoths on the Move | Key text How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key texts Pongo | Key text The Pebble in my Pocket |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text The Wild Robot | Key text The Adventures of Odysseus |
Year 4
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Key text The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
Key text Matilda |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key text Explorer |
Key texts The Ice Bear Rhythm of the Rain |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text The Boy in the Back of the Class |
Key text Race to the Frozen North |
Year 5
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Key texts Phoenix | Key texts Holes |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key text Survivors | Key texts Lava Short Film The Explosive History of Volcanoes |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text The Nowhere Emporium | Key text Cocheart |
Year 6
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Key texts The Island at the End of Everything | Key texts The Goldfish Boy |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key texts When the Sky Falls | Key texts Amazing Evolution |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text Beauty and the Beast in the style of The Cinderella Files | Key texts The Final Year The Tales of the Three Brothers |
Year 7
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| Core text: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| Spring | |
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| Core text: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare |
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| Core text: Poetry anthology by selected poets on the theme of the natural world | Core text: Ancient Tales Myths & Legends | |||
Year 8
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| Core text: Sherlock Holmes Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle |
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| Core text: The Tempest by William Shakespeare |
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| Core text: Animal Farm by George Orwell | Core text: Rhetoric | |||
Year 9
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| Core text: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| Spring | |
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| Core text: Small Island by Andrea Levy |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
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| Core text: Journeys anthology | Core text: Reading for study | |
Year 10
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| Core text: An Inspector Calls | Core text: English Language Paper 1 (AQA) | |
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| Core text: Macbeth | Core text: English Language Paper 2 (AQA) | |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
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| Core text: Unseen Poetry | Core text: Power and Conflict Poetry | |
All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Science
Year 11
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| Core text: Power and Conflict Poetry | Core text: A Christmas Carol | |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 | |
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| Core text: A Christmas Carol | Revision: English Lang and Lit Paper 1 AQA | |
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| Revision: English Lang and Lit Paper 2 AQA |
