Our Vision
We count it a privilege to guide our students through the exciting adventure that is English at Hayesfield. Our ultimate aim is to open their eyes and minds to the rich world of poetry, prose and drama around them. We seek to instil a lasting love of language and a thirst for literature that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Faculty Subjects
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English Language | English Literature | Reading |
Please Click Here to View the KS3 Curriculum Intent and Implementation Statements
Please Click Here to View the KS4 Curriculum Intent and Implementation Statements
Please Click Here to View the Curriculum Booklets for English
The 5 Year English Learning Journey
Please Click Here to Download the Learning Journey PDF
Faculty Team
Ms Elizabeth Twohigg (ET) – Head of English Faculty
Ms Melissa Trew (MTR) – Second in Faculty/KS3 Lead
Miss Elaine Kemp (EKE)- KS4 Lead
Ms Emma Egan – KS5 Lead
Mrs Caroline Gardener – Teacher of English
Mrs Fran Foster (FF) – Teacher of English
Ms Susanna Mountcastle (SMO) – Teacher of English
Mrs Joscelyne Beazley (JBE) – Teacher (Achievement First Year 8)
Miss Katie Glover Jones – ECT Y1 Teacher of English
Mr Tobias Skelton – ECT Y2 Teacher of English
Enriching Learning
In English it is so important that students get a sense of the world in which they live. The texts we study are varied but we also encourage students to visit the cinema and theatre and read around every topic they study to enrich their understanding of Literature and Language. Where possible we provide opportunities to visit the Royal Theatre in Bath and The Little Theatre cinema. We also ensure that every year group has an author visit where authors give a talk and run a Q and A session where students can purchase the novels, have them signed and meet the author.
Activities that we provide to support your daughter’s progress in English include:
- BANES debate Public speaking club and competitions
- BANES/Literature Festival Debate club and competitions
- Bath Literature Festival Competitions
- KS4 Literature support
- International Literacy Day
- World Book Day
- Various author visits
- In house Battle of the Books
- Reading Clubs – Battle of the Books, The Centurion Award and Carnegie
- Readathon
- Theatre club
- ESU Churchill Public Speaking Competition
- Poetry Live
- Hayesfield 100 (List of Reading Books)
You can support your daughter’s progress in English by encouraging her to:
- Read widely and everyday- there is no better activity to help in supporting literacy skills across the whole curriculum
- Use the advice of our School Librarian, Hayesfield’s online catalogue, local Libraries, the interlibrary loan service and access to University Library catalogues to extend their reading
- Visit writers at local bookshops and Literary Festivals
- Write for the School Magazine, local papers, appropriate creative writing for online
- Enter local, regional, university and national competitions for creative or essay writing
- Listen to Radio Four plays, arts/review programmes live, via iPlayer or online
- Enjoy solving crosswords and complex word puzzles
- Use GULP ( General Universities Lecture Programme), the BRSLI ( Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution), ITunesU and You Tube to access undergraduate level lectures
- Take part in Hayesfield Library activities, such as shadowing the Carnegie Award, Battle of the Books, The Centurion Award and/or read shortlists for the Booker Prize
- Enjoy a range of live theatre via Hayesfield Theatre Club
- Establish Book Circles, Fan Fiction Workshops, Film Clubs and the like to share expertise and enthusiasm
Recommended Reading List
Recommending a book is a very difficult task – but here is a list of books of varying length, topic and difficulty – browse through them and there must be something you would like to read!
Year 7 and 8
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Lisa Thompson: Gold Fish Boy
Kiran Milwood Hargrave: The Island at the End of Everything
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Michael Morpurgo: War Horse
R.J Palacio: Wonder
Lewis Hine: Looking at the Stars
Jack London: The Call of the Wild
Elizabeth Acevedo: Poet X
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Onjali Q. Rauf: The Boy at the Back of the Class
Geraldine McCaughrean: Where the World Ends
Ele Fountain: Boy 87
Irfan Master: Out of Heart
Annabel Pitcher: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls
Sally Nicholls: Ways to Live Forever
Elizabeth Laird: Welcome to Nowhere
Steven Camaden: Everything All At Once
Frances Harding: A Skinful of Shadows
Sarah Crossnan: One
Malala Yousafzi: I am Malala
Year 9
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Easton: Girls Can’t Hit
Sally Gardner: Maggot Moon
Robin Talley: The Lies We Tell ourselves
Jennifer Donnelly: A Gathering Light
Holly Bourne: Am I Normal Yet?
John Green: Paper Towns
Lucy Powrie: Paper & Hearts Society
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads sing
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Marcus Sedgwick: The Foreshadowing
Brian Conaghan: When Mr Dog Bites
Karen McManus: One of Us is Lying
Julie Berry: All the Truth that’s in Me
Year 10 and 11
David Nicholls: One Day
Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle
Ally Condie: Matched
Gabriel Zevin: Elsewhere
Kate Cary: Bloodline
Melvin Burgess: Sara’s Face
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
Khaled Hosseini: 1,000 Splendid Suns
Julia Green: Blue Moon
Alice Kuipers: Life on a Refrigerator Door
Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
Anna Perera: Guantanamo Boy
Jenny Downham: Before I Die
Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now
Danny Scheinmann: Random Acts of Heroic Love
Pittacus Lore: I am Number Four
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
Jenny Downham: You Against Me
S.K Wright: It Ends with You
Delphine de Vigan: No and Me
Jodi Picoult: Nineteen Minutes
Sarah Dessen: The Truth About Forever
Brian Conaghan: The Weight of A thousand Feathers
Emma Donoghue: Room
Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong
Kathryn Stockett: The Help
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
Rosamund Lupton: Sister
Susan Hill: The Woman in Black
Sarah Crossnan: Moonrise
Popular Series:
Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver Trilogy
Rosie Rushton: Modern ‘Jane Austen’ Novels
Kate Cann: Diving In Trilogy
P.C. Cast: House of Night
Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games
William Nicholson: Wind on FireTrilogy
Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic
Homework
Keystage 3
- English homeworks have been designed to support your daughter’s progress throughout the year and provide challenge tasks. Students will read set texts in their own time
- Written homework will always be to enhance and consolidate learning that has gone on in the classroom
- Maximum intended length of homework per subject should normally be 30 mins per week in Year 7, extending to 45 minutes in Year 8 and Year 9
Keystage 4
- Homework is set in line with the School Homework Policy. At GCSE English the intended length of homework should normally be 1 hour per week per English GCSE (2 in total)
- Students will record homework in their planners and teachers will share via SIMS Learning Gateway the details of what has been set and when it is due to be handed in
- Due to the nature of the literature exam at GCSE, the English Dept. sets an on-going reading homework throughout Years 10 and 11 where students are expected to regularly read and re-read the texts studied. This sets revision as a common practise almost from the outset – it should never be tagged on the end of a course but run through to ensure information is consolidated and retained. The reading is set alongside any homework issued by class teachers to consolidate and enhance learning that has taken place in the classroom
- Students are also expected to work through the CGP Language Revision skills book, which is given to all students, alongside any homework set by class teachers to consolidate and enhance learning that has taken place in the classroom
Curriculum Resources
Keystage 3
Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 |
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Knowledge Organisers and PLCs |
Keystage 4
Year 10 | Year 11 |
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Shakespeare text | |
Knowledge Organisers and PLCs |
KS4 Final Exam Resources
Please click on the links below to find resources that will help your daughter to achieve her personal best by preparing thoroughly for her final examinations:
- AQA Exam board website for Language and Literature
- English Language Exam Information [PDF]
- English Language PLC [PDF]
- English Literature Exam Information [PDF]
- GCSE English Literature PLC [PLC]
- GCSE English Revision Pack [ZIP]
- Ten Text questions to ask your daughter [PDF]
- GCSE English Revision Pack [ZIP]
- Romantic Literature Poetry Revision questions [PDF]
- Romeo and Juliet Exam Style Questions [ZIP]
- GCSE Bitesize
- Spark Notes- GCSE Literature Revision support materials