Transcript West Monmouth School English Department

West Monmouth School
English Department
Units of Work
In the English Department, all
pupils follow the same units of
work at the same time in order to
create consistency across the
whole school year.
Teachers will differentiate for
different abilities and include any
individual ideas they might have.
Year 7
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Personal Writing – Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’
Narrative Writing
Horror and Science Fiction
Writing to Persuade, Argue and Advise
Writing to Inform, Explain and Describe
Shakespeare’s Time and Language
Poetry
Year 8
• Fiction – ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar
• Writing to Persuade and Describe –
Places
• Writing to Inform and Explain –
Newspapers
• Writing To Imagine, Explore and
Entertain - Polar Expedition
• Wales Project
Year 9
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Fiction – ‘Stone Cold’
Narrative Writing
Play – ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Describing people and places
Multicultural Poetry
Fiction – ‘Of Mice and Men’
Core Tasks
All pupils in Years 7,8,9 are assessed
every term using ‘Core Tasks’.
Core tasks assess Reading, Writing,
and Speaking and Listening.
Results are used for movement
between classes and to report back to
parents.
GCSE – Years 10 and 11
At GCSE level we follow the WJEC
syllabus.
All groups will study for English
Language and top sets will also study
English Literature.
For very low ability, we also offer the
chance to sit the Entry Level exam as
a basic qualification.
The GCSE English Language
course comprises of:
• 20% Written Coursework
• 20% Speaking and Listening
• 60% Exams (two papers both based
on reading and writing)
The GCSE English Literature
course consists of:
• 30% Written Coursework
• 60% Exam (based on a novel, a play
and an unseen poem)
Extra Curricular
Activities
Reading Club
Mentoring
A mentoring scheme is run for
Year 11 pupils who need extra
help with GCSE.
Theatre Trips
‘An Inspector Calls’
‘Romeo and Juliet’
‘Blood Brothers’
‘A Christmas Carol’
Public Speaking
Competition
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Every year, we enter a team
into the ‘Rotary Youth
Speaks’ public speaking
competition.
We have been very
successful:
Regional Finalists three
times
Regional Winners
Regional Runners up twice
Welsh Finalists
Poets of Pontypool Poetry
Competition.
Every year we offer the
opportunity to all of our pupils to
enter this competition. In 2006 a
Year 11 pupil, Sam Peterson won
first place and last year two year
7 girls were finalists.
Thank you!
We hope we have given you
some idea about what our
department has to offer. If you
have any questions, please
feel free to contact us.