English Language GCSE

Our English Language GCSE course is designed for students who have not yet achieved Grade 4 in English GCSE. In all our classes we nurture a caring and supportive culture; course trips enable you to turn your classmates into friends and develop mutual trust, which will build your confidence in lessons.

Your teachers will offer additional workshops and one-to-one support to further develop and boost your literacy skills. We balance collaborative group tasks with independent assignments. Our lessons are interesting, structured and varied; teaching methods involve discussions, as a whole class as well as in small groups. You can expect to produce significant amounts of writing in every lesson, which will really develop your literacy.

At the end of the year you will sit two exams focusing on one 19th century literary prose text and two non-fiction 20th and 21st century texts. You will also write one piece of original creative writing and one piece of original transactional writing. Your studies will prepare you for your exams, ensuring that you feel confident and well-equipped for the examination period. Throughout the course you will read, analyse and evaluate a range of extracts from 19th century fiction as well as 20th and 21st century non-fiction. You will spend time in lessons practising a range of activities and writing tasks that will develop your approach to imaginative and transactional writing, for example, speech writing, letter writing and article writing.

If you have taken Spoken Language in school and have obtained at least a pass grade, you will not need to take it again.

Module Titles

19th Century Fiction and Imaginative Writing

20th and 21st Century Non-Fiction and Transactional Writing

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Exam Board: Edexcel

Four GCSEs at Grade 3 including:

Grade 3 in GCSE English Language

Students must study GCSE English if they have not achieved a Grade 4.

Separate group for students with GCSE English at Grade 2

Students who achieve grade 4 and above have the qualification to progress to level 3 courses such as A Levels and Level 3 Applied courses, take up apprenticeships or enter into employment with enhanced qualifications.