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While studying English at Philip Morant School and College, we aim to ensure our students are exposed to a wide range of challenging, stimulating and thought provoking fiction and non-fiction materials to inspire a curiosity for and provoke a love of learning. Students are encouraged to consider their world and the wider world around them as they read, discuss and explore novels, plays and poetry from a number of different perspectives across a variety of cultures and countries from different centuries.
Curriculum Intent
Click here for the curriculum intent for English.
What will students learn in school?
How can I support with English at home?
To support your children at home, we strongly encourage that they are reading regularly and texts that are suitably challenging for their reading level. Children can be exposed to a range of forms such as newspapers, online articles, autobiographies, and fictional texts. You may support your child by asking them questions about these texts as this will promote and develop their personal responses and engagement with a breadth of topics and ideas, but importantly a love of learning that becomes embedded into their daily activities.
Teachers will support their home learning with a variety of activities they can complete at home, you may support them with this if they are struggling or reach out to your student’s teacher to assist further.
In KS4, continue to encourage this breadth and regularity of reading. By exposing them to both fiction and non fiction resources they will become more confident when approaching those unseen extracts within their exam. To further support your child we have prepared a variety of revision resources that can be found in the English Student Drive (S Edmonds). These activities will ensure your child is continuing to apply the knowledge and skills they are acquiring and developing in lessons.