Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes — a whole nineteenth-century novel, a whole Shakespeare play, comparison across periods, structured creative writing, viewpoint writing and a formal spoken assessment — is met here first, with no marks attached.

The six units:

Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Lessons are one row each rather than a page each — enough to teach from, and little enough that a department can actually keep it up. Every unit maps to the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013).

For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it. 35 pages, A4 PDF.

If you use it, a review would be very welcome