Morning all,

It's our first dept briefing this morning (8:20, C26) so here is just a taste of some of the things that will coming your way...

1. Dates for your diaries:

• Tues 20th: Deadline for remark requests


• Wed 21st: Double dept meeting (2pm, C26)


• Thurs 22nd: Deadline for Nov exam entry


• Thurs 22nd: Year 11 PSHE day


• Fri 23rd: Deadline for updating UCAS references


• Thurs 29th: Open Evening


• Fri 30th: Performance Management Review INSET

2. Feedback from exam boards

This has been very positive across the board, reflecting the professionalism with which we go about coursework and the accuracy of our marking/standardisation. Well done everyone:

AQA AS Media Studies: 'informative comments...a pleasure to moderate'
AQA A2 Media Studies: 'clear and supportive annotations...commendable'
AQA AS Eng Lit: 'annotations and summative comments were extremely helpful...the centre is to be commended on its moderation process...the recreative responses to 'Antigone' were superb'
AQA A2 Eng Lit: 'staff and students had clearly worked hard to produce some very individual work'
WJEC GCSE Media: 'some splendid research and planning activities...evaluations showed real insight...a pleasure to moderate, thank you'

3. Eng Dept SEF / DIP

We will discuss this in more depth in our meeting on Wednesday 21st. I am keen to get input from colleagues across the dept, so please come armed with ideas for departmental issues/priorities.

4. Year 10 data tracking

I will be sending Year 10 teachers coursework tracking documents very soon. Please use these to record coursework marks. Feel free to mark using your own personal methods and then give to Toni for final data inputting if you prefer.

5. Jan exam entry for Year 11

Please let me know students for Higher and Foundation papers asap so I can pass on to Jo Simpson.

6. Creative writing groups

We have two creative writing groups within the dept:

• First Short Story (for KS3): Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15, J39


• Sixth Form Creative Writing Group: Wednesdays, 2-3, C27

Please promote to the relevant students/classes.

Have a great week.