The English Department plays a key role within the School. Apart from encouraging an awareness of and love for literature, we are responsible for ensuring that all pupils achieve a high standard of literacy, which will enable them to do well across the curriculum. To that end, all students are exposed to a broad range of Literature from Key Stage 2 upwards. Wherever possible, pupils are urged to use I.T. to extend their presentational and research skills. The department also arranges ICT and Newspaper Journalism workshops at the Guardian for all year 9 students.

For GCSE we follow the OCR English and English Literature specifications. The subjects lead to two separate GCSEs and they cover the various Key Stage 4 targets of the National Curriculum.

At A level approximately one third of students choose to study English Literature following the Edexcel specifications. Places to read English are regularly won at universities, including Oxford and Cambridge

Chigwell’s proximity to central London means that we make regular visits to West End Theatre productions and workshops to extend and enrich our students. The department is also responsible for the school’s magazine, ‘The Chigwellian’ and students of English are frequent contributors. During the annual school Activities Week, the department organizes a variety of activities, including visits from story tellers, legend makers and visiting poets.

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