English
At Heritage Park, the English curriculum has been meticulously designed to meet both the emotional and academic needs of our students. We believe that storytelling is a unique vehicle for our pupils to gain self-understanding and explore their personal goals. By carefully selecting a diverse range of classic and contemporary authors, from Shakespeare to modern free-verse writers, we present pupils with a spiralling curriculum that incorporates characters and trials that mirror their own journeys. This approach not only helps students relate to the material but also challenges their perceptions of others. Nurturing our pupil’s emotional intelligence as well as social responsibility is just as important to us as developing the skills to become efficient and effective writers.
It is our aim within the teaching of English at Heritage to:
- prioritise the skills of speaking and listening to best support our pupils to communicate their needs and express their feelings, ideas and knowledge with confidence.
- ensure reading is central to all that we do. Our pupils will value reading for pleasure and seek out stories that reflect their own lives as well as transporting them to new worlds.
- embed a love of writing in our pupils. Through quality first teaching children will be keen to use writing to express their ideas, knowledge and experience of the world.
- create a language rich environment and atmosphere where debate, discussion and shared ideas are respected by all.
- inspire pupil’s to feel ambitious about what they can achieve in their English learning and the career paths this could lead them to.
For details of how we achieve our aims and how we know if we have achieved our aims, read the Subject on a Page document below.
Qualifications
We offer three routes to qualifications based on our pupils learning stage upon entering Y9. We hope to secure entry-level or functional skills qualifications within this year in order to ensure pupils are ready to focus solely on GSCE’s throughout Y10 and 11.
As pupils’ transition into Key Stage 4 students will access a curriculum which is tailored to support them in gaining a qualification which is both aspirational and achievable to them. Throughout years 10 and 11, pupils will have the opportunity to sit qualifications in order to prepare them for their final examinations in year 11 and to also ensure they leave Heritage Park with an English qualification.
Qualifications currently on offer include: -
Edexcel Entry Level Certificate in English
Edexcel Functional Skills- Level 1/Level 2
WJEC GCSE English language
