Here they are:-
• To encourage in our pupils enthusiasm for and a love of English literature and language.
• To help them become life-long readers.
• To develop expressive and efficient writing skills.
• To understand the importance of planning work, and rereading/revising it.
• To encourage pupils to produce creative work, including fiction and poetry, outside the bounds of their academic syllabi.
• To help pupils develop confidence in their speaking skills.
• To help them become critically-aware about the use of language in the world around them.
• To integrate learning and teaching of language and literature.
• To prepare our pupils thoroughly and professionally for their state examinations, and help them reach their potential, including those with learning difficulties.
• To teach in a co-ordinated way, and share best practice, but also to allow space for individual teaching styles.
• To encourage participation and discussion in lessons, particularly through effective questioning, and to guard against excessively teacher-led classes. Classroom layouts enhance this.
• To mark pupils’ work carefully and intensively, concentrating on areas of improvement. This is very time-intensive, and it can be particularly difficult due to the demands of a 24/7 boarding school, but is vital.
• To encourage thorough but always pertinent note-taking in class and private study.
• To further these aims in an organised, structured way as pupils move through the school and mature.
• To showcase outside lecturers, writers and other guests with an interest in English.
• To expose pupils to as much good professional theatre as possible.
• To maintain a strong culture of improvement, to stretch ourselves as teachers, and to guard against complacency, particularly by being constantly reflective on our practices and purposes.
• To use digital technology where appropriate to further these aims.
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