One week until CA Deadline

Thursday 30th April - the last chance to lock and load your weapons for the exams in May and June.

Walk into the exam hall on the 18th, 22nd and 2nd with 40% and 30% in your back pocket for Language and Literature respectively.

Your revision will have more impact if you know nothing you do in those high pressure moments in the Hall is diluted or weakened by a poor Controlled Assessment folder.

Good luck and make sure you take advantage of this opportunity.

Mr Draper

p.s. some of your lovely student colleagues have started to come after school to English 1 to practice exam questions - I bet they didn't tell you that!

Two more weeks!

Only two more weeks to work on your Controlled Assessments for English Language and English Literature. Time to get the last few marks in your folder that can mean all the difference to your final grade.

What to do?

* Speak to your teacher

* Work out which CA can give you the quickest win: Creative Writing, Spoken Language Study, Extended Reading (either An Inspector Calls or Of Mice and Men) and Romeo & Juliet.

* Remind yourself of the question

* Organise a time to complete the CA

* Prepare beforehand

* Check if you have something unfinished that needs finishing.

Good luck. Some of you don't need to do any more, but you need to get focused on your exam preparations. Visit this revision video and see if it helps!

Easter the Second

Many thanks to those who attended the two Interventions this Easter break - shame on you to those who didn't. Final decisions have been made about tier entries for the exam, you now have to focus on what you must do to achieve the highest possible mark in all possible exams. 

It's Thursday - you have 30 minutes to do something that will help you pass your GCSE English Language or GCSE English Literature exams - GO!

Read the opening page of Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 of Of Mice and Men - in the Brush - compare how Steinbeck presents nature (light, animals, the natural world) does it change? What does it symbolise?


Or


Read Act 1 of An Inspector Calls - make notes - how are the characters introduced? comment on dialogue, action and description. It does change later. Look at the punctuation and stage directions.


Or


Read The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew - what's different between the Farmer's Bride and Curley's Wife? Do you feel any sympathy with the Farmer (a simple working man who doesn't know what to do with a young wife)?

You have 30 minutes.


Tomorrow - another 30 minutes!!