A full-year Transition Year English programme designed to make TY English practical, creative and genuinely engaging for students. This resource includes a complete Scheme of Work for 2026/2027, weekly plans, and five ready-to-use student modules covering a full academic year.

The programme is built around five hands-on modules:

Module 1: Advertising & Persuasion
Students explore how adverts work, analyse slogans, logos, target audiences and persuasive techniques, and create their own advertising campaign.

Module 2: Journalism
Students learn about journalism, headlines, bias, fake news, fact-checking, opinion writing, interviews and feature writing. The module builds towards a class newspaper project.

Module 3: Creative Writing
Students develop confidence in writing through freewriting, six-word stories, “show, don’t tell”, sensory writing, character creation, dialogue, setting, atmosphere and writing from prompts.

Module 4: Podcasting & Media Production
Students learn about podcast formats, speaking skills, interviewing, storytelling, scripting, recording, editing and producing a final podcast project.

Module 5: Film Studies & Visual Storytelling
Students explore how films tell stories through camera angles, sound, symbolism, opening scenes, colour, costume, storyboarding and short film planning.

Also included:

• Full Transition Year English Scheme of Work
• Weekly plans for the full academic year
• Clear module order and timings
• Student-friendly worksheets and portfolio tasks
• Practical activities suitable for mixed-ability TY classes
• Project-based learning with minimal exam-style pressure
• Opportunities for creativity, collaboration, communication and reflection
• Ready-to-use structure for teachers planning TY English from scratch

This is ideal for teachers who want a complete TY English course that is organised, visually engaging and easy to follow. The planning is essentially done for you, with space to adapt to your own school, department and timetable.

The included scheme of work can be edited to add your school name, logo and English department details.

Suitable for: Transition Year English
Format: Full-year programme with student modules, scheme of work and weekly plans
Focus: Creativity, communication, media literacy, writing skills, spoken language, project work and student independence

Created using teacher planning, classroom experience and AI-supported design tools for some images/backgrounds/icons.