St. George's Church of England Foundation School, Broadstairs, Kent : Specialist Business & Enterprise College

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"Striving for Excellence through Enterprise"

Welcome to English

We hope you enjoy this subject during your time at school.  We want you to enjoy reading, writing, speaking and listening and hope you make real improvements in those areas.

Here are some of the topics and themes that we study each year:

Year 7

• Animal
• My Desert Island
• Plays and Poems
• Myths and Legends
• Autobiography.

Year 8

• Friend and Foe - War stories
• Murder Mystery and Ghosts
• Diaries and Shakespeare
• Book Study
• Poetry and Knowledge about Language
• Geoffrey Chaucer

Year 9

• Non- Fiction tasks and Poetry
• Book Study
• Shakespeare Play SAT’s work
• Charles Dickens and ‘Oliver Twist’
• Soap Operas and Situation Comedies.
• Writing Skills for SAT’s examination

At GCSE we follow the SEG GCSE Course which has a mixture of coursework and examination as follows.

Coursework: 4 essays – 20%

Speaking & Listening – 20%

Examination - 60%

Some students may follow a literature course, in addition to the language course.  For this, the coursework is 40% and the examination 60%.

Reading

Try to read as much as you can – books, magazines, newspapers – anything.  The more you read, the more you will improve your reading.  Join a Library and get reading.

Writing

Work hard on your written work on how to improve.  You need to be able to write stories, poems, articles, arguments, letters, speeches and many other styles and genres of writing.

Grammar and Punctuation

Work hard on your basic punctuation, especially full-stops, speech marks and apostrophes.

You will be shown how to write good, complex sentences, using conjunctions, relative pronouns and participles so that your sentences are fluent and mature.

Spelling

Work hard on your spelling.  Check your mistakes in your work and try to learn any words that you find difficult.

Use the techniques that you are taught including:

Look, say, cover, write, breaking down and using minemonics.

Look at the school Spelling lists that we want you all to learn.

Here they are:

Year 7 & 8

Year 9 List

GCSE SPELLING LIST

NEXT 30

FINAL 20

Handwriting

How clear and neat is your handwriting?  Work on our handwriting programme to help you develop beautiful, cursive (joined-up) handwriting.  Practise for a few minutes every day ad you will soon show real improvement.

We hope that gradually, we can add more information that will help you improve your English at St George’s .  In the meantime, work hard and try to enjoy yourself

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