English
At present the staff of the department are as follows:
* Mrs M Hicks - Head of English
* Mrs C Flint - Second in department, i/c KS3 and A level English Language
* Ms C Iley - part-time i/c Year 9
* Mrs L Todd
* Mrs J Bissicks
We teach in C block, at the heart of the school and have a well-resourced department. Three of the five classrooms we use have interactive white-boards. Also we have recently purchased contemporary fiction for Key Stage 3, notably Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime.
From when our students join us in Year 7 we teach all students in school up to the end of Key Stage 4 in setted groups. Each student has four English lessons per week with two pieces of homework being set per week. All of our lessons are planned and delivered according to the National Curriculum, the Literacy Framework, the school’s focus on Assessment for Learning and the Effective Learning Framework as well as with the individual and specific needs of all of our students.
At GCSE we follow the AQA A syllabus and have traditionally had great success in ensuring that all of our students gain the best qualifications they are able to.
We have an excellent take-up rate of both AQA A level English Language B and English Literature A where we support our students with expertise and enthusiasm so that they achieve some of the best results in the school at both AS and A2. Part of the departments successes are due to having a highly specialised team of experts delivering the curriculum as well as the many enrichment activities we offer. Over the past year these have included:
* Library Induction for Year 7
* Visits by published authors: Melvin Burgess
* Theatre visits: RSC Midsummer Night’s Dream at Newcastle; The Duchess of Malfi at Bretton Hall
* Enrichment activities: Visit to the Imperial War Museum,London ; Durham Cathedral; English Language student support course; production of a study guide for A Level English Literature text ‘The Spire’
* Debating Society held each week- Debating Matters Competition: English Public Speaking Union competition.
* Poetry competitions
* A new school newspaper, produced by Year 13 English Language and Literature students.
We aim above all to enable our students to become better writers, readers and speakers of the English language, recognising that an enthusiastic and positive study of their own literature from all countries and cultures is an essential element of their development as young citizens. We welcome visitors to the department and any enquiries about our courses.
AS Level English Literature
* Mrs M Hicks - Head of English
* Mrs C Flint - Second in department, i/c KS3 and A level English Language
* Ms C Iley - part-time i/c Year 9
* Mrs L Todd
* Mrs J Bissicks
We teach in C block, at the heart of the school and have a well-resourced department. Three of the five classrooms we use have interactive white-boards. Also we have recently purchased contemporary fiction for Key Stage 3, notably Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime.
From when our students join us in Year 7 we teach all students in school up to the end of Key Stage 4 in setted groups. Each student has four English lessons per week with two pieces of homework being set per week. All of our lessons are planned and delivered according to the National Curriculum, the Literacy Framework, the school’s focus on Assessment for Learning and the Effective Learning Framework as well as with the individual and specific needs of all of our students.
At GCSE we follow the AQA A syllabus and have traditionally had great success in ensuring that all of our students gain the best qualifications they are able to.
We have an excellent take-up rate of both AQA A level English Language B and English Literature A where we support our students with expertise and enthusiasm so that they achieve some of the best results in the school at both AS and A2. Part of the departments successes are due to having a highly specialised team of experts delivering the curriculum as well as the many enrichment activities we offer. Over the past year these have included:
* Library Induction for Year 7
* Visits by published authors: Melvin Burgess
* Theatre visits: RSC Midsummer Night’s Dream at Newcastle; The Duchess of Malfi at Bretton Hall
* Enrichment activities: Visit to the Imperial War Museum,London ; Durham Cathedral; English Language student support course; production of a study guide for A Level English Literature text ‘The Spire’
* Debating Society held each week- Debating Matters Competition: English Public Speaking Union competition.
* Poetry competitions
* A new school newspaper, produced by Year 13 English Language and Literature students.
We aim above all to enable our students to become better writers, readers and speakers of the English language, recognising that an enthusiastic and positive study of their own literature from all countries and cultures is an essential element of their development as young citizens. We welcome visitors to the department and any enquiries about our courses.
AS Level English Literature