English @ The Streetly School
As you weave through the cacophony of Streetly Students your olfactory senses are aroused by the printed word. If you stay a while, one of our thirteen teachers will encourage your creativity: exploring writing, reading, film and drama.
This engagement and enthusiasm, from our team, has inspired our students to achieve their highest results ever and continue from GCSE to the A Level courses.
From signing up to The Streetly School, students in KS2 are accepted into our department. On open days we encourage them to explore both themselves and images to create whilst with us.
KS3 students follow the new national curriculum engaging with Literature and English through individual and inspirational tasks. We enrich the classroom experience with whole year competitions, projects and days out to bring the texts to life. Year Seven experience life in Victorian England whilst studying gothic short stories. Year Eight are challenged to escape the Egyptian tomb both with an increased and more powerful vocabulary and the priceless artefact they have discovered.
With Year Nine crossing the threshold from KS3 to GSCE, we explore core skills through themed work around Literature and Media units. Students study the work of William Shakespeare and some will also journey to The Globe to tread the boards like the Bard himself.
Once our students rejoin us in Year Ten the countdown to their GCSE’s begins in earnest. Our students focus on their coursework for the first year. This allows an entire year to work on their exam skills in Year Eleven. Most of our students will be entered and achieve two GCSE’s. We study AQA English A and English Literature A. Throughout these courses, students study Drama, Shakespeare and pre-1914 prose. They also build their creative skills through writing and media studies. For the exam students prepare by studying two sets of poetry and a collection of short stories.
We encourage our GCSE students to exceed their targets through enrichment days, super learning sessions and focused intervention sets. Our department was commissioned by the LEA to write and publish a revision unit, for the exam, for use across the LEA. Our students have access to this work on the school VLE.
Many of our students choose to return to us for courses in the sixth form. Our subject specialists teach courses they are passionate about and consequently this passion is transferred to our students. We offer Literature and will offer Language for the first time next year. We have a very successful Film studies course through which our students create their own films sometimes featured in leaving assemblies.
We aim to have every student leave our team with a greater understanding of English and hope that a good proportion of these also leave with a passion and respect for at least one facet of the language. Be it film, prose, writing or film making.
Our doors are open…are your minds? |
