English Innovation

Year 2

This Semester, Year Two English Innovation will centre around extending the learner’s authorship in the areas of poetry and information report writing. Our whole school approaches of CAFE and VOICES will be utilised to strengthen the use of explicit strategies for authorship. In addition, Student Voice will be used as a tool for planning teaching and learning experiences. English Innovation will also intend on broadening the students’ thinking through a global and service-learning lens. This will be built through providing the students with real-life experiences which increase oral and written language. To conclude their semester of learning, students will utilise voice and agency to plan a transfer experience.  

Year 3  

In English Innovation, students will be exploring and writing poetry using imaginative and creative text structures, language features and images. They will create a portfolio of poems which relate to different emotions, such as happiness, sadness, fear, excitement, and worry. They will also write a fictional writing piece, which will showcase interactive communication, in letter or email form, between characters in a narrative. This communication between the characters will evaluate their writing, as a growing bond between the fictional character, will develop, to highlight the contrast of the characters’ lives. 

Year 4  

In Term Three, students in Year 4 English Innovation, will write biographies, about people and organisations, involved in Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to create explanation texts, to describe how to use AI. The Innovator’s Mindset traits of being visionary, determined, courageous, reflective, and collaborative, will be explored, to show how AI innovators, have embraced these traits, to successfully achieve their extraordinary accomplishments.  

Year 5  

Year 5 English Innovation will experiment with language features and language patterns to add emphasis to a procedural text, that clearly shows the processes involved in an activity. These texts will be used to transfer knowledge to their peers concerning how to carry out the task effectively. Students will also create an explanatory text. They will research about, and use Artificial Intelligence, to construct information, related to the ethical considerations, and the value of AI in society.  The students will deliver a presentation using structured paragraphs, and selected aspects of subject matter, to convey information, to an audience. 

Year 6  

This term three, students in English Innovation, will evaluate techniques used to create emotional responses in narratives. This will be done using such aspects as comparison, contrast, exaggeration, juxtaposition, the changing of chronological order, or the expansion and compression of time.   As well as this, students will investigate how Artificial Intelligence has become a part of our written world and will compare the impact from poetry created by AI to those created by humans.  From this gained knowledge, they will experiment with text structures and language within poetry to combine verbal, visual and sound elements in an imaginative way, which will impact the reader in a meaningful way.