In my previous post, I reflected on the first steps that I have undertaken in redesigning our Junior English Curriculum for 2025. Please see my reflection post here - see Alby's Blog Post Entry: 11/11/24 In this post I outlined the heart of our Junior English Curriculum and the four key areas of Te Mataiaho that we are going to focus on which are:
Te whakamahi rautaki ki te whai māramatanga | Comprehending and Creating Texts
Te tātari arohaehae | Critical analysis
Te pānui hei whakangahau, hei whakapārekareka | Reading for pleasure
Te tūhono mā te whakawhiti kōrero | Connecting through storytelling
In post this week I am going to outline what the calendar for both Year 9 and Year 10 English will look like in our new curriculum for Junior English 2025. The calendar outline is inspired from work that I have seen through the Papatoetoe High School English Department and Dilworth School English Department. A huge shout out to the teachers there who have created some awesome programs for their Year 9 and Year 10 English classes and akonga.
YEAR 9 ENGLISH CALENDAR 2025
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| Year 9 English Calendar 2025 |
Each term will broken up into themes which all centered our primary theme of 'Our Stories, Our Voices' (which is in direct alignment with our NCEA Level 1 English theme). The themes are each term are as follows:
Term 1: Who am I?
Term 2: I see myself in texts
Term 3: We are storytellers
Term 4: Using our voices
There will be a primary text for each term and a common assessment task that will connect directly to the learning of the text. Except for Term 1 where we will solely focus on literacy strategies through our structured literacy program and our library program where we will focus on reading for pleasure. We have reduced our common assessment tasks to three assessments (traditionally we cover 5 - 6 assessments for both Year 9 and Year 10 English) but we wanted to focus on less assessments and more on exploring texts and enjoying texts. The common assessment tasks that we are focusing on for both Year 9 and Year 10 English in 2025 are Formal Writing, Creative Writing and Speeches.
YEAR 10 ENGLISH CALENDAR 2025
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| Year 10 English Calendar 2025 |
Term 1: Seeing Connections
Term 2: Exploring Voices and Language
Term 3: We are storytellers
Term 4: Using our voices
Like our Year 9 program, each term has a primary text and common assessment task attached. It follows the same formula that we have in our current curriculum except each term is driven by a theme. There is enough room for kaiako to choose texts that they are comfortable with and to dictate how they want to assess the common assessment task. The exception is that all of our Year 10 students will be expected to do the speech in Term 3 in preparation for the Year 10 speech competition in that we would like to run in Term 4.
I am excited about this new venture and I look forward to documenting our progress and journey in 2025.
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