National curriculum and examinations
Key Stage 3
Key Stage 4
The examination board we use for English is AQA.
Visit the AQA exam board website
Exam Specifications
Mark Schemes
- Specimen mark scheme Language Paper 1
- Specimen mark scheme Language Paper 2
- Specimen mark scheme Literature Paper 1
- Specimen mark scheme Literature Paper 2
Past Papers
Revision websites
Key Stage 3 (Years 7 - 9)
All Years
Year 7
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Creative Writing
Year 8
'Romeo and Juliet'
'Of Mice and Men'
Year 9
'Lord of the Flies'
War Poetry
Key Stage 4 (Years 10 & 11)
Language
- BBC Bitesize
- BBC Bitesize - Analysing Fiction
- BBC Bitesize - Writing Fiction
- English Language Paper 1
Literature
'An Inspector Calls'
'A Christmas Carol'
Recommended reading lists
Key Stage 3
Reading Books
- 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' by William Shakespeare
- 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding
- An additional Shakespeare play, for example The Tempest or Othello
- Crime-Fiction novels including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Sherlock Holmes' and Stevenson's 'Jekyll and Hyde'
- Gothic genre: 'The tell-tale heart' by Edgar Allen Poe, 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley
Textbooks
- CGP KS3 English The Study Guide
- CGP NEW KS3 English complete revision and practice
Key Stage 4
Reading Books
- 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B Priestley
- 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
- Power and Conflict Poetry anthology AQA
- 'Romeo and Juliet' William Shakespeare (11A2 2020 class)
- 'Macbeth' William Shakespeare (All other Year 11 classes)
Textbooks
- Use CGP AQA revision guides for Language and Literature and York Notes 9-1/CGP revision guides for any of the texts above