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Key Stage 3 English

In English at all levels we follow the Specifications of C.C.E.A.

At K.S.3 each year`s work is based around the intensive study of at least three novels, non-fiction drawn from class texts like “Assignments 1” and “Assignments 2”and “Seekers”( all Edco), a selection of poems including traditional ballads, regular study of language elements, Talking and Listening activities, library use and I.C.T. We place considerable emphasis on the importance of reading. Each class is timetabled by the English Department to visit the library once a week.

Assessment is by homework, oral and written, by formal Assignment-writing, and by formal tests at the end of the Christmas and summer terms.

We organise a Drama Festival to run two years out of each three year period, involving as many as possible of the pupils in each class, both on stage and behind the scenes. Pupils prepare posters and programmes for their plays, and write reviews of their own or of productions of other classes. They are encouraged to use I.C.T .in doing so. Pupils also have access to a large folder of work created by the English Department on English grammar, poems, novels, reading, writing and talking and listening activities.

Exam review material is made available for pupils too, to enable them to understand the reasons they received the marks they did in the exam, and to encourage them to overcome their difficulties.

Pupils contribute to the School Magazine, writing articles, letters to the editor, poems, stories, and accounts of their experiences in the Drama Festival.

Pupils are also entered in poetry and story-writing competitions run by outside bodies, as well as public-speaking and debating competitions.