Welcome to the English Department.
The English Department is a place where students broaden their horizons – of literature, language, cultures, people and issues past and present. We want our students to be confident and successful communicators who can engage with a diverse range of people and in a broad range of circumstances – both during their time with us and in the years after. Not only this but we aim to help our students have the skills to carefully consider communication they read, hear or see and have strong critical literacy skills. In our range of literature studied, our students meet a wide and diverse range of characters from across the globe and we help them to meet these characters with empathy and understanding whilst also considering and analysing the writer’s craft. They will also consider a vast array of global, historical, cultural and personal issues in the literature that we study written by a diverse range of writers -further helping to enrich and diversify their understanding and education.
The pen is mightier than the sword – and we aim to help our students be mighty contributors to their world by helping them be the best that they can be in communication with and in their understanding of others.
