1. Year 8 Allocation of Weeks 2017-18

2. Audit, Spellings, Composition, Star Reading Speare
YEAR 8- AUTUMN 1
WEEK COMMENCING
UNIT
TOPIC
WEEK
Audit, Spellings, Composition, Star Reading
Speare
Context recap and reading
Reading
Transactional writing
2 weeks half term holiday
HMWK

3. Transactional writing
YEAR 8 - AUTUMN 2
WEEK COMMENCING
UNIT
TOPIC
WEEK
Speare
Transactional writing
Reading fiction
Reading fiction (Blind reading assessment)
Transactional writing (Blind transactional writing assessment)
2 weeks holiday

4. Creative writing (Blind writing assessment) Reading fiction
YEAR 8 - SPRING 1
WEEK COMMENCING
UNIT
TOPIC
WEEK
Gothic
Reading fiction
Creative writing
HOMEWORK TASK -
YEAR 8 - SPRING 2
WEEK COMMENCING
UNIT
TOPIC
WEEK
Gothic
Creative writing (Blind writing assessment)
Reading fiction
Writing (free choice)
Reading fiction (Blind Reading assessment)
HOMEWORK TASK

5. Transactional writing
YEAR 8 - SUMMER 1
WEEK COMMENCING
UNIT
TOPIC
WEEK
Poetry
Reading Poetry
Transactional writing
HOMEWORK TASK

6. Reading (Blind Poetry essay assessment) Transactional writing
YEAR 8 - SUMMER 2
WEEK COMMENCING
UNIT
TOPIC
WEEK
Poetry
Reading (Blind Poetry essay assessment)
Transactional writing
Reading Poetry
LEARNING CHALLENGE WEEK
ASSEMBLIES ETC