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English

Welcome to The English Department

3rd September 2018Court Fields

English at Court Fields School

Meet the team:

The English faculty is made up of 7 members of staff, all with very different areas of interest and expertise but all with a shared love of language, literature and learning. We are passionate about teaching and are lucky enough to have the assistant head of the school who is in charge of teaching and learning in the English faculty, so we benefit from a wealth of knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm. All of us are English specialists with a variety of experiences before we came into teaching. We want our students to be challenged by their study of English, but we are an approachable group of people and we pride ourselves on being there for all of our students, all of the time. If you have any questions about the English faculty please get in contact.  

Staff

LM – Miss Martin. Head of English Faculty

RC – Mrs Cummins. English teacher and Assistant head-teacher

TB – Mrs Bruce. 2nd in English

KJ – Miss James. English teacher

JN – Miss Normanton. English teacher

ME – Miss Evans. English teacher

SD – Mrs Dennehy. English teacher

Our Vision:

The English faculty at Court Fields is committed to ensuring all of our students make better than expected progress, that every student comes to English expecting to participate, expecting to be challenged and expecting to succeed. Our students should love English, look forward to their lessons, know they will be supported and be willing to take risks. No student will be left behind.

Our Aims and Values:

The core aims of the English faculty are as follows:

  • We want all students at Court Fields to be engaged in and excited by the study of English; our subject may not be easy for many of our students, but it should never be dull or boring.
  • English lessons should stretch and challenge students; not just to read at a high level and write effectively but also to think critically, discuss and listen thoughtfully and express themselves eloquently. Students should also challenge themselves to go further, think harder or learn more. We don’t expect anyone to get it right all of the time, but we do expect hard work and a positive learning attitude form all our students.
  • We are not an exam factory. Assessment is important and students have a right to know where they are and where they are going in measurable terms, but at in English we aim to give students the big picture about what they are studying. We always focus on where English skills can be used in the wider world and how what we are studying fits into the world around us. Novels and other texts are approached from all available angles; the social and historical context, the moral implications of plot, character and storyline, the links which can be drawn with events occurring in the world today, the reactions of various audiences and/or readers. English is about more than just semi colons and the PEE paragraph and it is vital that our students recognise this.
  • English in its most basic form is essentially a study of words. All of our students can use words. Therefore, it follows that none of our students can possibly be ‘bad’ at English. In this faculty no one is allowed to give up and no one is allowed to say they ‘can’t do it.’ Not even the teachers.

Our values can be summarised in a few words: Engage. Challenge. Find the big picture. Never give up

 

English

English – Curriculum Overview

3rd October 2020Court Fields

Curriculum Overview – English

English

Cirque Du Freak Audiobook chapters

3rd April 2020Sam Hester

Chapter 1

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Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

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Chapter 4

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Chapter 5

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Chapter 6

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Chapter 7

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Chapter 8

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Chapter 9

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Chapter 10

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Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

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Chapter 13

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Chapter 14

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Chapter 15

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Chapter 16

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Chapter 17

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Chapter 18

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Chapter 19

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Chapter 20

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Chapter 21

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Chapter 22

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Chapter 23

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Chapter 24

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Chapter 25

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Chapter 26

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Chapter 27

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Chapter 28

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Chapter 29

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Chapter 30

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Chapter 31

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Chapter 32

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Chapter 33

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English

Parent Workshop

27th September 2018IT Services

Year 11 students and their parents joined Miss Martin for a revision skills workshop during academic monitoring day. It was fabulous to see so many students working with their parents and focused on how to get the most out of their revision.

Some of our favourite revision strategies are below:

Flashcards Flashcards are an ideal way to record information in note form. At the workshop, parents and students made a flashcard for one of the GCSE poems studied and then played matching and testing games with them. Flashcards are a brilliant memory aid and playing matching games ensures students can articulate and explain the information they have learned.

Mind-maps Mind-mapping is a valuable tool for all subjects and help students to not only record and memorise, but also draw links between various pieces of information. Mind-maps are particularly useful for revising complex topics such as themes in a novel.

Using Exemplar Material When it comes to writing better essays, nothing beats practise – lots of it! Exemplar answers can help you judge how good your own writing is and what you need to do to improve it. There are banks of exemplar exam answers shared with all GCSE English students on Google Drive to help them target these areas.

English

Open Evening

20th September 2018IT Services

Year 6 students joined Court Fields English faculty in their new, purpose built block on open evening to engage in a rage of mini English and literacy activities. The life size Scrabble was enjoyed by all and some excellent acrostic poetry on the topic of sweets was written. Our favourite is below! We look forward to teaching such an enthusiastic and talented bunch of writers next year.

English

Read Write Gold at home for students

18th September 2018Court Fields

Note: You must be signed into your Court Fields Google account to download the software – If you are having problems please come to the ICT office for help.

Read Write Gold can be downloaded by students to install on personal Windows computers.

Click here to download Read Write Gold

RWGStudents

Once downloaded;

  • Right click Student-ReadWriteGold-ForHome.zip and click extract
  • Browse to the extracted files
  • Double click Setup.exe
  • Follow the steps within the installer
  • When installed open and click activate
  • The installation is then complete and Read Write Gold is ready to be used.

Note: You must be signed into your Court Fields Google account to download the software – If you are having problems please come to the ICT office for help.

English

Welcome Year 7

5th September 2018IT Services

A huge welcome to our new year 7 cohort who are already overwhelming us with their positive attitude towards their work and their language and literacy skills. We are excited to be working with such talented students and look forward to seeing what you can achieve over the next 5 years.

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Eliot Block

3rd September 2018IT Services

The English faculty took ownership of their new block, Eliot block, this week. Eliot block was named for George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Anne Evans. George Eliot was a novelist, poet and journalist of the Victorian age who could only succeed in her chosen writing career by pretending to be a man. We wanted to celebrate George Eliot both as an inspirational writer and as an icon of perseverance and refusal to accept failure; both traits we encourage and expect to see in our students.

English

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