Bulletin - 2nd May

Hi all,

Welcome back Liz!

Right, this week:

Department Meeting - Tues 3.15 - 4.15

- A Level English Teachers meeting with PTo in C23

- Year 11 Teachers meeting in C26 to fill in coursework cover sheets (see email from JKy)

- Remaining Colleagues - planning and preparation time

Exam Classes

Thanks to all for the continued work with our exam classes - we are nearly there. This year has been a real challenge with the sheer weight and volume of assessment on our shoulders - not long now until a bit of respite!

Takeaway Teacher

TT now has a Media Studies Channel, on www.youtube.com/user/cheneytakeawaymedia . Some useful stuff here for GCSE and AS / A2 - please do have a look and direct students to where appropriate. We've also had over 4000 hits now on the English site - I've added a load of videos over the holidays, eg videos on how to plan for the OMAM question, and how to achieve the A* in Lang and Lit. Please feel free to take classes / use the netbooks to access this resource. Also, if there are any teaching points that would really benefit your students, please let me know.

Books

We have received a substantial number of books from Amazon - they are currently stored on the shelves at the back of C2. The books are in sets of 4 or 8 and are intended for:

- use for class Reading Weeks as discussed in dept meeting - feel free to pilot this with KS3 classes, and we'll aim to get a proper schedule / approach clarified in the summer.

- use as an alternative to the class novel for teaching the Shared Text units

Please don't send these books home with students!

Thanks everyone,

Tom