GCSE English Language

Exam Board and Specification Code: Edexcel (4EA1) The Course The objectives of this course are to improve the student’s ability to read fluently and critically and write with clarity and confidence, using the correct terminology. Reading: The students are offered a range of fiction and non-fiction extracts, short stories and poems from, the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries which explore themes, ideas, experiences and information from many cultures around the world. Students consider the ways in which various writers, with a specific purpose in mind, create effect and impact for readers through their use of language and structure.

Learning to evaluate, draw inference and identify bias are some of the skills students acquire through close, shared reading of challenging texts. They develop the ability to organise their insights into cohesive analysis, defending and supporting their views with relevant, appropriate evidence from the texts being studied. Writing: Naturally, we also focus on producing increasingly confident and controlled prose employing an ever-widening range of vocabulary and punctuation.

As students’ perceptions into the ways in which writers strive to move and manipulate their audience sharpen, they begin to replicate these techniques in their own writing. We offer students opportunities to write for different audiences and purposes, to stretch their ability to select and organise facts, details and opinions deliberately and effectively. The classroom ethos is cen