A complete 25-lesson Key Stage 3 English scheme of work on Onjali Q. Rauf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class, aligned to the National Curriculum across reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary, and spoken English. Ideal for Year 7 and for transition. Fully resourced with a knowledge organiser, retrieval grids, a stretch and challenge pack, and assessment guidance with an annotated model.

What’s Included

• Full 25-lesson scheme: the narrator and the new boy, understanding refugees and prejudice, the children’s plan and courage, hope and belonging, and the ending and assessment.
• Medium Term Plan detailing all 25 lessons mapped to objectives, sequenced activities, outcomes and National Curriculum strands.
• Knowledge Organiser with plot, characters, themes, Rauf’s methods, context and key vocabulary.
• Retrieval Practice Grids with three spaced and interleaved grids plus a full answer key.
• Stretch and Challenge Pack with conceptual questions, a worked greater-depth model and wider reading.
• Assessment and Mark Guidance with Key Stage 3 progress descriptors, success criteria, and an annotated model paragraph showing the move from retelling to analysis.

Bonus Features

• A sensitive, empathy-led approach to refugees, war and loss, focused on the author’s purpose and a safe, respectful classroom.
• Explicit tier-two and tier-three vocabulary and literary terminology taught and revisited every lesson.
• A structured discussion and a range of writing outcomes: analytical, creative and persuasive.
• Four assessment points across the unit, with descriptors that build toward GCSE-style analysis.