Secondary English

🌟 By the end of Year 6, students are Language Explorers on a Master Quest!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students become idea wizards, interacting, listening, and creating spoken or multimodal texts like pro storytellers. For specific audiences and purposes, they share, explain, and elaborate on ideas from topics or texts. They mix up text structures to organise and link ideas smoothly, and add sparkle with topic-specific words, literary devices, multimodal features, and voice magic — making every story or presentation captivating!

📖 Reading & Viewing:
Students turn into text detectives and comparison masters, exploring texts designed to inform, influence, or entertain. They spot similarities and differences in how ideas are presented, noticing how characters, settings, and events bring ideas to life and reflect different contexts. They decode how text structures vary to match the purpose, and uncover how language features, literary devices, and visuals shape meaning and influence the audience — like solving a puzzle in every text!

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students craft written or multimodal texts, including literary creations, for real purposes and audiences. They develop, explain, and elaborate on ideas with supporting details, organise their work using paragraphs and varied text structures, and sprinkle in magic with diverse sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary, literary devices, and multimodal features. Their spelling and grammar are like super tools, using phonics, morphemes, and grammar knowledge to produce polished, engaging, and powerful texts.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 6, students are creative adventurers, storytelling wizards, and text detectives, confidently shaping words, structures, and visuals to inform, entertain, and impress any audience!

🌟 By the end of Year 7, students are Language Adventurers on a Creative Quest!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students become conversation champions and storytelling maestros, interacting with others and creating spoken or multimodal texts, including literary gems. For different audiences and purposes, they discuss, express, and expand ideas with strong evidence, organising thoughts like architects of words. They sprinkle in literary devices, multimodal magic, and voice flair, making their ideas truly shine!

📖 Reading & Viewing:
Students are text explorers, diving into texts made to inform, influence, or engage. They spot how ideas are portrayed and uncover the impact of context. They appreciate the aesthetic qualities that make a text sparkle, and discover how text structures, literary devices, and visuals shape meaning — almost like uncovering hidden treasures in every page!

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students craft written and multimodal texts, including literary works, for different purposes and audiences. They express and expand ideas with solid evidence, and organise their creations using clever text structures. With literary devices, multimodal features, and stylistic flair, they turn ordinary words into captivating stories, reports, or presentations that truly engage.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 7, students are creative explorers, evidence detectives, and master storytellers, using text structures, language tricks, and multimodal magic to captivate any audience!

🌟 By the end of Year 8, students are Language Wizards on a Creative Adventure!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students become communication wizards, interacting with others and creating spoken or multimodal texts, including literary works. For different purposes and audiences, they discuss, express, and elaborate on ideas, backing them up with solid evidence. They choose and mix text structures like a chef mixing ingredients and sprinkle in literary devices, multimodal magic, and vocal flair to make their ideas sparkle!

📖 Reading & Viewing:
Students are text detectives, exploring a wide range of texts designed to inform, influence, or captivate. They explain how ideas are represented, and spot how texts reflect or even challenge contexts. They admire the aesthetic magic of texts and reveal how text structures, language tricks like intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features shape meaning—unlocking the hidden power of every text!

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students craft written and multimodal texts, including literary works, for different purposes and audiences. They express, advance, and support their ideas with evidence, select and vary text structures to organise and link thoughts, and use literary devices, multimodal features, and stylistic flair to make their creations shine like a masterpiece.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 8, students are creative adventurers, evidence detectives, and storytelling wizards, using text structures, language magic, and multimodal spells to amaze any audience!

🌟 By the end of Year 9, students are Language Adventurers on a Creative Quest!

🗣️ Speaking & Listening:
Students become idea explorers and meaning-shapers, interacting, listening, and creating spoken or multimodal texts, including literary gems. For a range of purposes and audiences, they discuss and expand ideas, backing them up with strong evidence. They select and experiment with text structures like architects of meaning, and add flair using literary devices, multimodal features, and voice tricks to make every word count.

📖 Reading & Viewing:
Students are text detectives and context warriors, navigating diverse texts designed to inform, influence, or engage. They analyse representations of people, places, events, and concepts, and see how texts respond to their contexts. They uncover aesthetic qualities that make texts sparkle and investigate how text structures, literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features craft meaning.

✍️ Writing & Creating:
Students craft written and multimodal texts, including literary works, for different purposes and audiences. They express, expand, and shape ideas with clear evidence, organising their texts with smart and experimental structures. Using literary devices, multimodal features, and stylistic flair, they transform ideas into engaging stories, essays, or presentations that capture attention and inspire audiences.

💡 In short: By the end of Year 9, students are creative pioneers, meaning-makers, and storytelling masters, wielding text structures, language magic, and multimodal tools to turn every text into an exciting adventure!