Through studying English all pupils develop valuable life skills that feed into a wide array of careers in the future. The skills pupils explore and develop throughout their study include: reading, retrieval, comprehension, analysis, evaluation, creative writing, transactional writing, oracy and debating, listening and questioning.

Each of these skills are vital for numerous jobs in the wider world. Some career ideas these skills feed into include: law, human resources, marketing, sales, product design, teaching, policing, writing, editing, publishing, journalism.

Many of our students who have taken English Literature at A-Level have gone on to study at top universities exploring subjects like Law, Politics, History and English to name a few. English is a gateway subject that allows all potential career choices to become a distinct reality.

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The English Department provide a wide array of extra-curricular opportunities.

At Key Stage 3 we run a year 7 stretch and challenge club which aims to provide opportunities for students to be academically challenged to meet their potential, through a range of more advanced reading material. We provide opportunities here for our English Prefects to lead these sessions to develop their own skills and teaching potential. We try to provide opportunities to visit the theatre/ have the theatre visit us to bring the texts to life.

At Key Stage 4, we have a year 11 stretch and challenge club, which aims to provide students with additional university level critical readings to enhance their understanding of the texts they are studying in class, to give more unique and higher order thinking opportunities to our students. We bring the GCSE texts to life by organising for a theatre company to come and perform the texts to make learning come alive.