We want to transmit our passion for our subjects because we feel they are important. Exam results matter, but so does a wider, enriching education.
Our English/Film curriculum KS3-KS5 is always under review. We want it to be inclusive, engaging, relevant and challenging and to provide students of all ages and abilities with the skills, content, competencies and cultural capital for exciting futures at whatever level they will want to access them.
We acknowledge that English is a “facilitating subject” that enables students to make progress in all areas of the curriculum (including oracy) so, whilst we have our own designated important content, we recognise our responsibility to ensure that all students are able to express themselves confidently, competently and accuracy in a wide range of contexts.
We also acknowledge that our schemes/choice of content can build cultural capital (sound general knowledge of what elite people know) but that we can also - through sensitive study of a range of literary texts, contribute to social education in all its guises.
We want the KS3-KS5 curriculum to focus on what matters the most in terms of skills and content at each stage of learning so that students can build efficiently on starting points and make good progress every year.
We all love our subjects and want students to enjoy their learning, have positive attitudes towards reading, writing and oracy which will enable them to move to ambitious futures.
We want students to have competence and confidence and accuracy in writing, reading and S&L in increasingly challenging contexts. English is a facilitating subject as well as having its own disciplines; skill development at all stages should allow students to fully access all other subjects, to develop enquiring minds, interpret, infer and analyse and to be able to express themselves accurately and confidently in a wide range of ways whilst fostering creativity and imagination.
We want students to understand the power of language - as consumers and producers. We want students to choose higher studies in English-related subjects and also to consider the pleasures and possibilities (and profits) of a career based around literacy.
We want students to have experience of some of the finest texts and writers of the ages and to foster appreciation of why some texts are important in what they say about the human condition and how they say it. Our mix of texts for Matthew Arnold students should be as diverse as possible whilst also deepening understanding of the contribution to British culture of key “names” and texts.
We want our students to have wide vocabularies and to be able to appreciate words, their roots, origins and their power. The fun of words.
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Starter Pack for Film Language
