1. Year 10 English Transition

2. The English Department
Claire Lockwood – Director of English
Emma Lewis – Curriculum Leader, English
James Cobb – Second in English (KS4)
Shani Baker – Third in English Faculty (KS3)
Carrie-Anne Jones – English Teacher
Marissa Early – English Teacher
Sara Price – English Teacher
Nicola Phelan – English Teacher
Eva Hazeltine-Rees – English Teacher
Angela James – English Teacher
Jo Hennessy – English Teacher
Hafsa Mohammed – English Teacher
Jo Goaman-Jones – English Teacher & NVQ Health & Social
Rachel Newnes – English Teacher & LENCO

3. GCSE English Language and Literature (new from Sep 2015)
English Literature
Both exams are at the end of year 11
20% of the course is oracy (recorded)
10% individually researched presentation
10% interacting and responding (discussion)
80% is externally examined
Unit 2 (40%) description, narration or exposition, including editing and proof-reading, and a choice of 2 writing tasks
Unit 3 (40%) persuasion and argumentation and 2 pieces of writing
Writing accuracy features as 50% of all writing tasks (sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and grammar)
Unit 1 exam (35%) at the end of year 10 (22nd May 2017)
Unit 2 exam (40%) at the end of year 11
Unit 3 (25%) controlled assessment
12.5% Shakespeare (already completed)
12.5% Poetry comparison (currently completing)

4. Assessment
Every half-term students will be assessed so that we can track their progress and ensure that teaching is matched to their needs.
The language papers have a wide range of question types that test a variety of reading skills and cover a range of text types, both continuous and non-continuous, fiction and non-fiction.
Question types:
multiple choice
comparison
inference
deduction
synthesis
summary
explanation
sequencing

5. Outline of course Year 10 Learning & Teaching Focus Assessment Focus
Autumn 1
(7 weeks)
Welsh Poetry Anthology (2 weeks)
Unseen Poetry (2 weeks)
Read through of Of Mice and Men (2 weeks)
Poetry Controlled Assessment (1 week)
Mock Unit 1 Literature on extract and essay.
Autumn 2
1930s America SoL (3 weeks)
Specimen exam paper plus DIRT activity (2 weeks)
Spring 1
Discrimination SoL (3 weeks)
Progress and Change SoL (2 weeks)
Specimen exam paper plus DIRT activity (2 weeks)
Spring 2
(6 weeks)
Attitudes to Women SoL (2 weeks)
Unseen Poetry revision (2 weeks)
Of Mice and Men revision (1 week)
Responding and Interacting discussion (1 week preparation and assessment)
Summer 1
(5 weeks)
SSPS skills (1 week)
Text Purposes and Accuracy SoL (2 weeks)
Full mock Unit 1 Literature (1 week)
External Examination Unit 1 Literature (22nd May 2017)
Summer 2
Read though of An Inspector Calls (2 weeks)
Individual Researched Presentation (2 weeks)

6. Ways of supporting your child
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Apps (BBC Bitesize, Gojimo)
WJEC website – educational resources
Recommended revision book from WJEC
Check planners and question your child about the work they have been producing in lessons.
Expose them to as many different text types a possible: newspapers, magazines, blogs, documentaries, fiction texts.
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7. Questions