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English in Year 7

English in Year 7. In Year 7 your son will be taught English:. In his form group For 5 periods a week. 1 of these will be a dedicated grammar lesson. By a well-qualified and enthusiastic English specialist! KEY AIMS: progressing key skills and fostering enjoyment of the subject.

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English in Year 7

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  1. English in Year 7

  2. In Year 7 your son will be taught English: • In his form group • For 5 periods a week. 1 of these will be a dedicated grammar lesson. • By a well-qualified and enthusiastic English specialist! • KEY AIMS: progressing key skills and fostering enjoyment of the subject.

  3. Areas that will be covered: In the four remaining lessons, your son will study 10 units during the academic year that have been designed as cross-skills units in accordance with the National Curriculum. He will cover: • Reading (fiction, non-fiction, media, plays, poetry and texts from different cultures and traditions) • Writing skills • Speaking and listening skills • Grammar

  4. Assessment • Each half term your son will be given a levelled assessment for each key area – this could be for a test, a homework or a class assignment. • He will sit a grammar test every half term. • In the summer term he will sit two end of year examinations for this subject: a reading and writing test. There will also be a graded grammar exercise. • Your son will have a termly review session with his teacher to discuss targets and action points. You can monitor his targets on the sheet inside his class exercise book.

  5. Homework • Your son will have one hour of English homework per week. • This is usually set over the weekend and is essentially a double allocation. This time may be used to complete a number of short tasks or one long one. Not all homeworks will necessarily take this long. • Homework tasks will vary between reading, writing, research and preparation tasks.

  6. READING! • Please encourage your son to read as much as possible! • Reading lists are available in the school library for students to consult and are updated frequently. They can also download a KS3 one from the school website or ask their class teacher. • They can take 3 books from the library at once and can reserve texts they are keen to read.

  7. EXTRA CURRICULAR The department offer a range of activities during the year that boys can get involved in: Talk shop – designed to get boys involved in a host of speaking and listening tasks Lower School Play – in recent years KS3 boys have had resounding successes with renditions of Oliver and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Plus a range of other societies and trips. We even have a group for father’s! Father’s Book Club: The Father’s Book Club meets once a half term in the foyer of the Clarendon Muse. If you are interested in attending or have any questions then please email Jim MacLeod for further details: macleodj@watfordboys.herts.sch.uk

  8. After Year 7 • All KS3 classes are mixed ability. • Your son will continue to be taught in his form group in Year 8. • In Year 9 he is likely to be taught in mixed-form and ability sets. • In years 10 and 11 your son will be put in sets according to his ability.

  9. We look forward to seeing you all at parents’ evening on4th May 2011

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