Department The English team: Miss Julie Higson Curriculum Leader - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome to the English Department

The English team: Miss Julie Higson – Curriculum Leader for English • Mrs Andrea Bargery – Key stage 5 Leader • Mr Craig Batty – Key stage 3 Leader • Miss Danielle Daulby – SEN co-ordinator • Mrs Jenny Harding – SHINE Leader for Key stage 3 • Mrs Kathy Baxter – Literacy Co-ordinator • Mr John Harrison – Assistant Head and Director of Sixth Form • Mrs Rachel Coney – English teacher and Year 10 Form tutor • Mrs Victoria Burges – English Teacher and Year 10 Form tutor • Mr Thomas Kilkenny – English Teacher and Year 9 Form Tutor •

GCSE English Language 2013 Summer results: 76% of our students achieved an A* to C grade in their English Language exam . 21% of our students achieved an A*/A grade in their English Language exam .

GCSE English Literature 2013 Summer results: 76% of our students achieved an A* to C grade in their English Literature exam . 29% of our students achieved an A*/A grade in their English Literature exam .

A Level English Language Summer 2013 results: 78% of our students achieved an A* to C grade in their A Level English Language exams. 10% of our students achieved an A*/A grade in their A Level English Language exams.

A Level English Literature Summer 2013 results: 82% of our students achieved an A* to C grade in their A Level English Literature exams. 18% of our students achieved an A*/A grade in their A Level English Literature exams.

Year 7 Curriculum AUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2 TP1 TP2: TP3: TP4: TP5: 14 th October 13 th January 7 th March 2 nd May 4 th July CARNIVAL OF PROSE DRAMA SHAKESPEARE CREATIVE Introduction to THE ANIMALS WRITING the Media Skellig Dracula The Tempest Scheme of work Private Peaceful and/or War Horse taught in tutor Face Mid summer groups and then night’s dream classes are placed in ability groups after October half term.

Year 8 Curriculum AUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2 TP1 TP2: TP3: TP4: TP5: 14 th October 13 th January 7 th March 2 nd May 4 th July LOVE POETRY PROSE LANGUAGE DRAMA MEDIA SHAKESPEARE CHANGE Boy in the Frankenstein The Others or Romeo and Striped Pyjamas Twilight Juliet Holes Stone Cold

Year 9 Curriculum AUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2 TP1 TP2: TP3: TP4: TP5: 14 th October 13 th January 7 th March 2 nd May 4 th July POETRY FROM SHAKESPEARE MEDIA PROSE OF MICE AND INTRODUCTION OTHER CULTURES THE HUNGER MEN – Preparing TO UNIT 1 – Macbeth GAMES Lord of the Flies for GCSE Preparing for Or To Kill a GSCE Richard III Mockingbird Animal Farm

GCSE English Language and English Literature We have been following the Edexcel GCSE English Language and Literature specification for the last three years. The current Year 10 cohort of students will sit their exam in the June of 2014 and the Year 11 cohort will sit their English Literature exam in June 2014 also. Both specifications allow students the opportunity to sit both traditional exams and Controlled Assessment units to explore the English Language and Literature courses.

What our students have to say…. ‘ One thing I like about my English lessons is the support you get from the teacher and the help you get to understand an idea you may not understand’ Sophie Y12 English Literature ‘One thing I like about my English lessons is the interactive way in which we analyse the novel, play and poem that we work on.’ James Y13 English Literature

What our students have to say…. ‘ One thing I like about my English lesson is working in groups and being able to help each other .’ Sophie Year 10 ‘ One thing I like about my English lesson is that I can understand what I am doing and try to do it as well as possible .’ Tomas Year 10 .

What our students have to say…. ‘ One thing I like about my English lesson is having a very supportive teacher.’ Ruby Year 7 ‘ One thing I like about my English lesson is that we get a really wide variety of homework tasks – we sometimes get to choose them ourselves.’ Emily Year 7 .

What our students have to say…. ‘The best thing we have done so far is writing descriptively about rainforests.’ Catherine Year 7 ‘ One thing I like about my English lesson is that I always learn something new.’ William Year 7 .

What we do to support our students… Parental Engagement evenings: Year 7/8 Numeracy and Literacy Evenings • Year 10/11 English Language revision and information • evenings Year 11 English Literature revision evenings • Revision classes: Open to all students in the months leading up to exam sessions • for GCSE/AS/A2 after school, holidays and lunchtimes. English Champions: We organise peer support groups for students – teaming up • students from GCSE classes to help Key stage 3 students with their class and homework in lunch sessions.

Homework Key stage three: Homework is set once a week in Years 7 -9 and is always • linked by theme or skill to the topic that the students are studying in class. We like to offer a range of homework tasks suited to varying learning styles. Key stage four: Homework is also set once a week and is often linked to • the unit of work being studied in class. Due to the nature of GCSEs, homework will often be directly linked to a piece of assessment or further exploring the task covered in class.