Upcoming events and other announcements : Theatre trip to The Woman in Black took place on Thursday May 27th.  See "events" for a review by Maisie in Year Nine   Thanks to all who have helped to welcome Miss Brett, who is taking Miss Hartill's former classes. She has enjoyed her first few weeks. Photo soon!     Year 10 - you had a first try at Paper One of the GCSE exam on June 18th. You will now go on to discuss materials linked to Work Experience and work-related learning, with a formal GCSE oral assessment in the week beginning June 28th.     Year Nine - we hope you enjoyed Shakespeare Day. On Tuesday 22nd June we start  the special "creative and practical media" courses where you choose your own topic.	Welcome to the English Department: Our slogan for ENglish - ENrich, ENcourage, ENjoy. Meet the team   Books to read now live! is your review here yet? Events Pupils work Take the quick survey at http://www.studentvoice.co.uk/ to give your views on English   Welcome to our Year Eight pupil editor team, who will be helping Mr Anderson to improve and update the website: Cerian Barnes Sarah Bridger Willow Cicale-Brown Will Jose  Joseph McCabe Nathan McCormick Ellie Tregoning Bryher Trewin Stanley Welch	Yr 7 Yr 8 Yr 9 Yr 10 Yr 11
Using the moodle (or VLE) Mrs Camidge's homeworks and other instructions and resources are now available for you to view from home. Click on the link to the Moodle which is on the right-hand side of the website home page, then go to English.   Please get in touch and tell us whether you find the moodle useful, and what else you would like to see on it Ask Mrs Camidge or Mr Anderson if you can't remember what the password is.	This half term... Welcome to the  English department webpage - keep an eye out here for recent work and events and our course programme for each yeargroup, as well as up-coming events. Our book review page is now live. Send your reviews to Mrs Camidge (lc at the school address) - or just hand them to you English teacher. Year Eleven  Final practice sessions this half term! Year Ten  The next module - "writing about a media product" starts on April 19th. The coursework that you produce tests how well you can write to analyse, review and comment. It is worth 5% of your GCSE mark. The module will also help you to develop the reading and writing skills you need for exam paper 1 - first practice coming up next half term.  Year Nine  Formal assessment for the KS3 levels given at the end of the key stage will continue this term. It is important to do well in these assessments so that we give you the right target grade and put you in the right group for GCSE. You will also follow a course called "research, referencing and reliability" which should help you to use research materials independently in all aspects of your future work - across the curriculum for GCSE, at college after you leave, and outside school. Year Eight  You will continue to develop your writing across a range of forms. You will continue to work on varied texts. By the end of the summer term, all classes will have completed work on poetry, prose, drama, a range of media texts including moving image texts, and school brochures and websites.   Year Seven You will continue your work on poetry, role-play, reading and writing non-fiction, and a novel. By the end of the summer term, all classes will  have completed work in each of these areas - and so by July Year Seven pupils should have a good idea of what English is going to involve over the next four years.