The secondary curriculum review
The revision of the key stage 3 programme of study provides an opportunity to review and refresh your sequences of work.
When reviewing planning across the key stage, developing new sequences of work or revising existing ones, you should consider the following.
Curriculum planning should highlight how the key concepts are integrated into teaching and learning across the key stage. The opportunities to develop pupils' experiences of the key concepts should be evident.
The following need particular attention when planning:
Planning should ensure that pupils have opportunities to make progress in the key processes. As they revisit the key processes throughout the key stage, pupils should be increasingly challenged. This can be achieved by expanding the range of contexts in which they practise the language, increasing the length and complexity of written texts and recorded material, and asking pupils to respond in different ways.
Pupils should be given opportunities to experience and use the target language in a wide range of useful contexts and situations both in and out of the classroom. Teachers should ensure pupils have the chance to practise the language beyond the classroom and have the chance to communicate with different audiences.
Teachers should select contexts and topics that are likely to be of interest to pupils, that correspond to their level of maturity and that relate where possible to what they are learning in other subjects. Teachers should provide opportunities for pupils to talk about things that matter to them.
