Topic outline

  • Planning examples from Hampshire schools

    Thank you to Hampshire schools for sharing KS3 planning using the three-phase model!

  • Wolves/ Fairy Tales Year 7

    This section includes a short learning journey based on Shaun Tan's The Singing Bones and a brief extact from Angela Carter's In the Company of Wolves.  (Please don't worry! It is a very brief and appropriate extract!)  Alderwood School used this journey to create a longer and more developed journey based on fairy tales.

  • Trash Year 8

    A year 8 learning journey based on the novel, Trash, by Andy Mulligan.

    Many thanks to Park Community School.

  • Secret Lives of Colour Year 8

    Having worked with Hampshire schools to identify common gaps in Key Stage 3 Curriculum, we noted the following:

    - non-fiction often has less weighting than fiction

    - writing often has less weighting than reading

    - curriculum content can feel rather bleak with topics such as dystopian fiction, war and conflict, and Gothic Literature

    This learning journey is based on extracts from The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair, a non-fiction text that has a more positive theme and can be used alongside a wide range of other texts on the theme of colour, such as poetry, song lyrics, short fiction extracts, and visual texts.  Many thanks to Alderwood School.

  • A Christmas Carol for Year 7

    A year 7 learning journey based Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    Many thanks to Cove School

  • A View from the Bridge for Year 9

    A year 9 learning journey based on Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge.

  • An Inspector Calls

    A year 10 learning journey based on An Inspector Calls.

    Many thanks to Alderwood School.

  • The Tempest Year 8

    A year 8 learning journey based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

    Many thanks to Alderwood School.

  • Rabbit Proof Fence - Film - Year 8

    A Year 8 learning journey inspired by the film version of Rabbit Proof Fence, planned to meet the specific needs of pupils at Rowhill Education Centre.