Curriculum Relevance

England and Northern Ireland:

Key Stage 3 English:

• Speaking and listening; reading; writing
• Engage with classic and contemporary texts and explore social and moral issues
• Develop understanding and appreciation of texts from different cultures and
• traditions
• Standard and non-standard English language studies

This text is also widely studied in Ireland, North and South, at Key Stage 2.

Key Stage 2 History England

• Victorian Britain 2

Key Stage 3 History England

• Britain 1750 - 1900: Relations between Ireland and Britain

Key Stage 2 History Northern Ireland

• Life in Victorian times
• Evidence of the Great Famine, etc.

Key Stage 3 History Northern Ireland

Study Unit 3 Union to Partition

• Rural Ireland and the impact of the Great Famine
• Emigration and the land question

Wales

KS3 English:

• Oracy; Reading; Writing
• Read literature drawn from a variety of genres
• Read texts from other cultures and traditions that represent their distinctive voices and forms, and offer varied perspectives and subject matter
• Analyse and evaluate a wide range of media and moving-image texts
• Respond to the substance and style of texts, discussing a varied, appropriate selection of literature and materials produced by the audio-visual media

KS3 History:

• Study of a historical theme: Migration and Emigration

Scotland

5–14 Level E

English Language; Environmental Studies; Social Studies: Understanding People in Society.