The Year 9 course will develop your English skills in numerous ways and prepare you for GCSE study in the following two years. You will read exciting fiction, drama, poetry and non-fiction and tackle some creative writing of your own. Every lesson also has a range of questions, practical activities and internet activities to make the topics more exciting and easy to understand.
£14.99 / month
Subscribe to the courses you wish to study. Each course contains everything you require to succeed in your chosen subject, including detailed coverage of all required topics, activities, self-assessment questions and assignments with comprehensive suggested answers. You may choose to have the assignments marked by one of our fully-qualified tutors.
The minimum subscription period is 6 months. After that, you can cancel your subscription at any time. If you wish, you may optionally purchase a printed, spiral-bound course pack at the point of subscription.
You will be allocated a tutor from our bank of PGCE-qualified tutors. Your tutor will arrange a free 15-minute induction call with you to introduce themselves and the course to you. As you require further tutor support, you can purchase:
Lessons 1 to 5: George Orwell: Animal Farm
Lesson 6: Introducing media and non-fiction
Lesson 7: Handling information
Lesson 8: Writing to persuade
Lesson 9: Literary non-fiction; descriptive writing
Lesson 10: Media and non-fiction revision
Lessons 11–15: Shakespeare and The Tempest
Lessons 16–20: Introduction to modern drama and Across the Barricades
Lesson 21: Poetry – rhythm, metre, rhyme
Lesson 22: Making poems come to life
Lesson 23: Poetic forms
Lesson 24: Comparing poems
Lesson 25: Poetry – revision
Lessons 26–30: Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd
There are no formal examinations for Key Stage 3 English.
The Recommended number of study hours for this course is 200 hours. You will need to fit all of this in
Because of the unique way Oxford Home Schooling courses are structured your support will last for as long as you are subscribed to the course, regardless of whether you decide to do the course in 12 months or 18.
Each module of the KS3 English has a parents’ guide. Each Parents’ Guide contains everything that a parent should need to offer practical support to the student.
This includes the answers to the activities and discussion ideas based on the student’s answers.
The Guides also contain:
The guides are provided in printed form if you purchase the printed materials, or as downloads, which are available from the download section of your “My Account” page.
No.
KS3 courses are the building blocks designed to prepare your child to begin studying for GCSE, which is formally examined.
With no exams to worry about, your child can take as much or as little time as they need to assimilate the basic principles in KS3. This can be a time in school when gifted children become bored and troublesome if they find it all too slow and easy while others may be put off learning if they have not had time to grasp the first principles of a subject. Oxford Home Schooling has the flexibility to cope with both of these extremes and every child in between.
There isn’t a specific age requirement to start a Key Stage 3 course but we strongly recommend that the pupil is a minimum of 10 and preferably 11 when they start the GCSE course and also that they are academically capable of starting the course. If the student is not 10 before they start, we may have difficulty allocating you a tutor. There is no upper age-limit.
You may take out a subscription and start any time of the year you like. The earlier the better! The important thing to think about is the context of secondary education as a whole and the objectives you have as a family.
Once you have taken out a subscription, you will get access to your course online immediately and (optionally) your printed course materials will arrive a few days later.
No. Students may jump in at Year 8 or Year 9 instead. If a student has already completed Year 7 (or Year 8) within a school environment, they find they were repeating skills and knowledge already acquired. But any course makes assumptions about prior knowledge and our Year 8 courses do assume the prior knowledge that comes from a Year 7 course. Our Year 9 course, similarly, assumes knowledge from both Year 7 and Year 8. So it may take a little while to adapt.
This is one of the main objectives of our KS3 courses. Some of our GCSE and International GCSE courses may go back briefly to first principles for the benefit of those who are new to the subject but a student’s chances of success are hugely enhanced if they have achieved a firm grounding at KS3 first.
The courses are largely self-sufficient so no additional textbooks should be required. The exception, perhaps, is English, where students will need to acquire certain novels, plays and poetry books. Access to the internet is advantageous at all levels of education, including KS3. Our science courses assume access to various very basic items of equipment for home-based experiments, usually under parental supervision.
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