Departments: English
 Our English Department at Finham Park is an excellent team. There's a great mix of youth and experience. We also work closely with the library staff, who provide excellent support and resources.
Our Schemes of Work are generally topic based, allowing students to develop their speaking and listening, reading and writing skills alongside other valuable life skills. As you might imagine, a lot of excellent literature is covered throughout and every student will read at least one novel each year. We also make extensive use of the school's ICT resources. Classes are regularly taken to work in the cross-curricular IT rooms, the department also uses a variety of media resources including video cameras and digital cameras.
 The Department runs a number of Newspaper days. Students work in an environment as much like a real newsroom as possible and produce the 'Finham Eye' newspaper.
The Department is currently working with the 'Reading Connects' project, in which we are working towards raising the profile of reading around the school. We encourage budding poets once a year in our whole school poetry competition, judged by the sixth form literature students.
English run numerous trips throughout the year giving students opportunities to watch plays they are studying being performed on stage. Trips this year have included going to watch Blood Brothers in Birmingham and taking the sixth form to see NT production of The History Boys.
We run many accredited courses. Almost all our students are entered at GCSE for both the English Language and the English Literature courses. Three courses are taught at A-level, English Language, English Literature and Language, and English Language. We are also in our second year delivering the IB.
Click here to see details about the new Humanities programme
Head of Department: Mr Williams
Second in Department and Head of KS3: Miss Jays
Head of KS4: Mrs Beckinsale
Head of KS5: Mrs Darwood
Leader of E-Learning: Miss Page
AGT Coordinator: Miss Haywood
English Extension Coordinator: Miss Reardon
Mrs Railton
Mrs Wilkinson
Mrs Cooke
Miss Ford
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