THE CURRICULUM - ENGLISH

The English Department aims:

• to ensure that all students have access to a curriculum to suit their needs, is resourced adequately and is taught professionally and competently.
• to ensure that all students have equality of opportunity within a curriculum and faculty that offers a disciplined, comfortable working enviroment.
• to enfranchise the students with the basic skills of reading and writing that are required to progress and then
• to encourage and motivate the students to develop their language skills beyond that of which they thought they were capable i.e. to raise the expectations of students through Personal Achievement, thus having a positive effect on self-motivation, self-confidence and self-esteem.
• to encourage and motivate students who, for a variety of reasons, experience difficulties grasping language skills and where necessary to provide additional support and guidance.
• to encourage and motivate students who, for a variety of reasons, experience difficulties grasping language skills and where necessary to provide additional support and guidance.
• to provide additional support, guidance and monitoring for more able students.

More specifically the English Faculty aims:

• to ensure that all our students become confident and effective communicators.
• to ensure that all students recieve equal shares of faculty time, resources and expertise.
• to ensure that all English teaching values equally reading, writing, talking and listening.
• to foster an appreciation of literature and enjoyment of reading in all our students.
• to offer help and guidance on language matters to all other faculties.
• to review continually the faculty's work in the light of theory and practice and to revise its policies accordingly.
• to develop students critical awareness
• to preapare students for external examinations.
• to provide guidance and support for all faculty staff whilst allowing flexibility for them to work to their strengths.