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 Man on the Moon |
Key texts Beegu Pick a Pine Tree |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key text Lucy & Tom |
Key text Where the Wild Things Are |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text Look Up! |
Key text The Extraordinary Gardener |
Year 2
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Key text Rapunzel |
Key text The Polar Express |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key texts Leaf Meerkat Mail |
Key texts Animals Just so Stories |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text Somebody Swallowed Stanley |
Key text George's Marvelous Medicine |
Year 3
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| Key text Stone Age Boy |
Key text Cloud Busting The Bear & the Hare |
| 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 Odysseus |
Year 4
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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
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| Key texts Phoenix |
Key texts Holes |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key text When the Mountains Roared |
Key texts Lava The Explosive History of Volcanoes |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text The Nowhere Emporium |
Key text Cocheart |
Year 6
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| Key texts The Island at the End of Everything Harriet Tubman |
Key texts The Goldfish Boy The Christmas Truce |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Key texts Sky Falls |
Key texts Once Amazing Evolution |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Key text Cinderella: The Fairytale Files The Beauty and the Beast |
Key texts The Final Year The Tales of Beedle The Bard |
Year 7
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Core text: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
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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 |
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 |
Year 9
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Core text: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
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Core text: Small Island by Andrea Levy |
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Core text: Anthology of poetry on the theme of journeys by selected poets |
Year 10
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Core text: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare |
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Core text: An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley |
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AQA English Language Revision |
Year 11
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Core text: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Exam Revision for English Literature and Language |
