English KS4
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Key Stage 4
At KS4 the faculty offers both GCSE English and GCSE English Language & English Literature through the Welsh Examining Board (WJEC).
The courses are divided up as follows:-
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CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT: READING & WRITING
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CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT: S&L
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EXAM
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ENGLISH
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40%
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20%
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40%
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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30%
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30%
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40%
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
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25%
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75%
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- Controlled Assessments
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English
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English in the world of the imagination
Reading:
1. Literary Heritage poetry & Shakespeare
2. Different Cultures prose (OM&M)
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English in the world of the imagination
Writing:
1. Open writing 1st person narrative
2. Open Writing 3rd person narrative
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English in the daily world (S&L)
Speaking and Listening:
Communicating and adapting language; interacting and responding; creating and sustaining roles.
3 pieces – 2 based on real life situations and one based on a literary text.
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English Language
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Literary reading and creative writing
Studying written language: extended literary text e.g. ‘Of Mice and Men’
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Using Language: creative writing
1. Descriptive Writing
2. Narrative Writing
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Spoken language (S&L)
Using language: Speaking and Listening (Communicating and adapting language; interacting and responding; creating and sustaining roles) - same as GCSE English
Studying spoken language: Variations, choices, change in spoken language.
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English Literature
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Poetry and drama (literary heritage)
Poetry taken from GCSE poetry collection & a play by Shakespeare
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- Exams
GCSE English & GCSE English Language
Exam 1 hour
English in the daily world
Reading: non-fiction texts
Exam 1 hour
English in the daily world
Writing: Information and ideas
English Literature
Exam 35% 2 hours
Prose (different cultures) and poetry (contemporary)
- Section A: ‘Of Mice and Men’
- Section B: Comparative Study
Contemporary: Unseen poetry comparison (comparison of two poems)
Exam 40% 2 hours
Literary heritage drama and contemporary prose
- ‘An Inspector Calls’
- Contemporary Prose
