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Year 10 English Transition

Year 10 English Transition. 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

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Year 10 English Transition

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  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 Language English Literature 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) • 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)

  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

  6. £4.95 Amazon £7.99 Amazon Ways of supporting your child £4.95 Amazon • 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. £7.99 Amazon

  7. Questions

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