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The English Department achieves results above the national levels at Key Stage 3 and GCSE English and English Literature. We have recently added Media Studies as an optional GCSE for our students.

Our primary concerns in English are communication, both spoken and written, and the appreciation and enjoyment of literature. We aim to help our students to become effective communicators, confident, well-practised readers and thoughtful, open-minded human beings.

As an integral part of their studies, students will consider the viewpoints of others helping to develop the constructive critical and analytical skills necessary to make judgements as mature, independent citizens in the modern world.

They will learn how to express their own ideas clearly, using standard English and a range of sentence structures with accurate punctuation and spelling.

The KS3 and GCSE courses are based on the premise that a proficiency in the language skills of reading, writing and speaking and listening adds to our quality of life as well as forming the basis of success in English and other areas of work and study.