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English

English Department

Welcome to the DWC’s English Department page.  Through this page, we hope to give you a brief overview of our courses and student work.

Our Objectives

In accordance with the overarching aims and objectives of the British National Curriculum, a plethora of increasingly challenging as well as inspiring texts or educational resources are deployed to promote a high standard of literacy. More specifically, considering the overwhelming importance of linguistic acquisition, we:

  • guide students to discover, explore and maximize their full potential.
  • cater for all students irrespective of their socio-cultural background or disparity in learning styles.
  • teach English Language and Literature-in-English at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 such that students communicate ingeniously, confidently, and effectively using apt rhetorical devices.
  • instil in students the ability to communicate proficiently, eloquently, appropriately, succinctly and intelligibly with a variety of audiences.
  • inspire students to enjoy literary studies as well as appreciate its contribution to aesthetic and imaginative growth.
  • deliver engaging and effective lessons in which every child achieves pre-set objectives.
  • expose learners to an appreciable range of challenging tasks to facilitate tremendous progress.
  • provide differentiated, stimulating activities for all students based on the awareness that learners acquire skills and knowledge in dissimilar ways.
  • prepare students adequately for Edexcel IGCSE examination.
  • equip students with skills required to compete confidently with other global learners.
  • nurture a total child.

DELIVERABLES

At both Key Stage 3 & 4, the delivery of lessons is focused on the development of core linguistic skills within five major strands: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing, and Literary Appreciation. Progress is measured and assessed following the standardised National Curriculum 9-1 grading scale [A*-G]. Each unit of work contains core assessments focuses which address a variety of skills. All schemes of work have clear learning objectives.

Schemes of Work (SOW) at KS3 are designed specifically to help students develop the core skills they will need to confidently cope with the demands of IGCSE examinations. In like manner, Units / SOW at Key Stage 4 are shaped largely by the syllabus of Pearson Edexcel IGCSE.

SoW are designed to cater for diverse learning abilities and offer forums for a rich range of teaching-learning experiences while creating opportunities for students to enjoy English studies; acquire higher level transferable skills, achieve top grades in IGCSE examinations, and ultimately cope with the dynamism of the society they may find themselves in.

Furthermore, SoW are designed to make students enthusiastic about linguistic and literary studies. It therefore draws on a wide range of stimulus material in order to engage students’ interest, motivation them and achieve invaluable learning experiences.

In both KS3 and KS4, lessons are delivered using stimulating resources of various genre to enable students enjoy English studies and at the same time thoroughly fulfil the demands of Edexcel IGCSE examination. There is a lot of focus on syntax, semantics, mechanics, stylistics, and the four writing triplets which are writing to:

  • Argue, persuade, advise
  • Analyse, review, comment
  • Inform, describe, explain
  • Imagine, explore, entertain

THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM AT DWC

Year 7: John Boyne’s ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’, Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’, Morris Gleitzman’s ‘Once’, Wole Soyinka’s ‘The Lion and the Jewel’, Malorie Blackman’s ‘Pig Heart Boy’, William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’, Anthologies (prose and poetry), Media Texts, John Reynolds’ Checkpoint English 1, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar for KS3 (CGP), etc.

Year 8: Witi Ihimaera’s ‘The Whale Rider’, William Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest’, Alan Paton’s ‘Cry the Beloved Country’, Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horsemen’, Chinua Achebe’s ‘Arrow of God’, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’, Anthologies (prose and poetry), Media Texts, John Reynolds’ Checkpoint English 2, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar for KS3 (CGP), etc.

Year 9: Robert Swindell’s’ ‘Stone Cold’, J. B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’, George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado about Nothing’, Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’, Wole Soyinka’s ‘The Beautification of the Area Boy’, Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Their Eyes were Watching God’, Anthologies (prose and poetry), Gothic Literature, Media Texts, John Reynolds’ Checkpoint English 3, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar for KS3 (CGP), etc.

Year 10 and 11: William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’, Arthur Miller’s ‘A View from the Bridge’, Pam Taylor’s Edexcel English A & B, Pam Taylor’s Edexcel English Literature, Anthologies (prose and poetry), Media Texts, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar for KS4 (CGP), etc.

Educational Technological applications used to reinforce teaching/ learning and independent study are: Satchel One, GCSE Pods, Century Tech, Quizzes, Kahoot, etc.

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES/ENRICHMENT PROGRAMMES

We offer a spectrum of engaging and intellectual enrichment programmes where students display intellectual confidence, resilience, creativity, and hard work. Some of which are:

  • Spelling Bee
  • Debate and Impromptu speeches
  • Spoken Word Poetry
  • Essay/Story writing competition
  • Model United Nations (MUN)

EXAMINATIONS

For internal assessment in KS3, it is a unique fussion of Checkpoint English and Edexcel IGCSE pattern of examination.

Internal assessments in KS4 strictly follow Edexcel IGCSE English Language Specification B and Literature examination patterns. At the end of KS4, all students sit for Edexcel IGCSE English Language and Literature examinations.