Levels Offered:

English is offered primarily at Higher and Ordinary level and at Foundation level where needed in specific cases.

Initiatives:

‘Book in my Bag’

Well Read

Drop everything and read

Paired reading

Book Club

World Book Week

The English Department aims:

• – To reinforce the work of the primary school in nurturing the intellectual, imaginative and emotional growth of the student by developing his/her personal proficiency in the arts and skills of literacy;
• – To develop student’s personal, social and cultural literacy;
• – To expose students’ to a wide range of texts;
• – To foster an interest in students of the arts and theatre and media;
• – To develop student’s vocabulary, critical and analytical skills;
• – To teach students to express their thoughts with confidence, clarity and to respect those of others.