English & Media
Head of English & Media Faculty: MrsAbrahams
email: vanessa.abrahams@winchmore.enfield.sch.uk
0208 360 7773 Ext 401
ENGLISH
Winchmore’s English Curriculum is designed to challenge and support all of our students to ensure that they achieve the best possible outcomes. We strive to deliver a carefully sequenced and ambitious curriculum to equip students with the skills needed to become articulate, confident individuals and use it as a ‘bridge’ between school, higher education and the outside world of work.
Our mission across all key stages is to celebrate and boost the students’ confidence, development and understanding of reading, writing and oracy, and ultimately instill a lifelong love of reading. Our varied curriculum offers our diverse intake of students an opportunity to engage with the rich tapestry of English Literature as well as modern texts which reflect a wide range of cultures and experiences. This is supported by embedding and teaching the key skills throughout each key stage including writing for different contexts and critical thinking.
Through our schemes of learning as well as a range of opportunities, such as LAMDA, Jack Petchey Challenge, podcasts and delivering speeches, the faculty also promotes the importance of oracy and how it supports the understanding of Literature and Language
The faculty values and promotes activities beyond the classroom to enrich students' experiences of the written and spoken word whether it be through booster sessions, theatre trips, British and London Library excursions and workshops, the Zine, Debate and Poetry by Heart Club.
MEDIA STUDIES
THe Media Curriculum is designed to challenge and support all of our students, ensuring that they achieve the best outcomes possible by focusing on a diverse range of set texts. Students will be exposed to the full spectrum of modern media, including: Film; Advertising, Magazines, Television, Radio, Video Games, Music and Social Media. Across the curriculum students will develop their cultural capital with all set texts requiring broad knowledge of social, cultural, historical, economic and political contexts. Good literacy underpins all teaching and learning activities and students will be encouraged to become insightful in their written responses alongside using skills such as analysis and evaluation. Outside the classroom students are encouraged to build their cultural capital through a range of exciting school trips, whether it be to Harry Potter World, Sky Studios or by attending seminars at the National Film Theatre.
