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English

Welcome to the English department. The academic
year of 2021 – 2022 will forever be remembered as the
year we returned to face to face classes but also for the
resurrection of the long tradition of the school play.
For three nights our outstanding band of singers and
actors put on a great performance of “Blood Brothers”
to a welcoming and generous audience.

We have continued to build on our drive to develop
reading in the school though literature and with the
return of the library facility, our lower school pupils
are enjoying their dedicated wider reading lessons
that we have built into their timetable.

Book week was a tremendous success with our classroom
door book cover competition where everyone was working
together to transform the school so thank you so much for
all your efforts. I look forward to what comes next and I am
proud of the commitment to excellence all of our students
have shown as we get back to normal.

Drama is a growing feature of our provision, where
performance skills become a stimulus to improve
writing skills and we will continue to increase our
commitment to the performing arts to ensure engage-
ment and progression within our area.

In order to support our pupils in times of stress and anxie-
ty, we practice mindfulness and do breathing exercises which
will encourage them to develop healthy routines for the rest of
Mr Darryl Matthews their lives.
Head of English
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