Sixth Form English students love to read, interpret and debate. They gain expertise in writing with force and flair and justifying arguments with evidence. Sometimes they can make imaginative leaps and connections between quite different texts. They’re confident in researching and weighing up the views of critics and other readers. They are experts in paying close attention to words and their nuances, patterns, sounds and tone. They think about how culture, religion and contexts shape writers’ decisions. It’s a subject where your opinions matter and you bring creativity and fun to class in your willingness to respond and discuss. Those students who study history, theology, drama, languages, classics, or history of art will find that these subjects have great potential to enrich their ability to excel in English and vice versa. Whether you want to write and persuade with impact in the business world; argue with fl air and confidence; understand the world around you and the potential power of language, or just attain truly impressive A-level results in an academic subject viewed highly by universities, English is a route to all these destinations. At English A-level, students explore texts from a range covering the last six hundred years. Boys will be introduced to some of the most vital poets, playwrights and novelists ever to write in English, as well as to emerging voices, destined to define the literary landscape of the 21st Century. The course is taught by paired dons, each covering half the content. Boys begin the Michaelmas Term of Lower Sixth by studying ‘Other Drama’, which includes plays spanning ‘Dr Faustus’ to ‘Waiting for Godot’, alongside a selection from Forward’s ‘Poems of the Decade’, which offers an extraordinary breadth of work from some of the century’s most urgent poetic voices. Next comes an exploration of Shakespeare on one half of the course, and the teaching of paired novels on the other. In the Upper Sixth, boys embark on the ‘Named Poet or Movement’ component, in which Larkin, Eliot, Keats, Yeats, Wordsworth and others are represented. At the same time, the extended coursework begins; boys are often given free choice over the question and text here, with dons offering bespoke support throughout the course.
About Education Provider
| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | Oxfordshire |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Boys |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | £48,075 |
| Sixth Form Fee | £48,075 |
| Address | Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2HR |
Sixth Form English students love to read, interpret and debate. They gain expertise in writing with force and flair and justifying arguments with evidence. Sometimes they can make imaginative leaps and connections between quite different texts. They’re confident in researching and weighing up the views of critics and other readers. They are experts in paying close attention to words and their nuances, patterns, sounds and tone. They think about how culture, religion and contexts shape writers’ decisions. It’s a subject where your opinions matter and you bring creativity and fun to class in your willingness to respond and discuss. Those students who study history, theology, drama, languages, classics, or history of art will find that these subjects have great potential to enrich their ability to excel in English and vice versa. Whether you want to write and persuade with impact in the business world; argue with fl air and confidence; understand the world around you and the potential power of language, or just attain truly impressive A-level results in an academic subject viewed highly by universities, English is a route to all these destinations. At English A-level, students explore texts from a range covering the last six hundred years. Boys will be introduced to some of the most vital poets, playwrights and novelists ever to write in English, as well as to emerging voices, destined to define the literary landscape of the 21st Century. The course is taught by paired dons, each covering half the content. Boys begin the Michaelmas Term of Lower Sixth by studying ‘Other Drama’, which includes plays spanning ‘Dr Faustus’ to ‘Waiting for Godot’, alongside a selection from Forward’s ‘Poems of the Decade’, which offers an extraordinary breadth of work from some of the century’s most urgent poetic voices. Next comes an exploration of Shakespeare on one half of the course, and the teaching of paired novels on the other. In the Upper Sixth, boys embark on the ‘Named Poet or Movement’ component, in which Larkin, Eliot, Keats, Yeats, Wordsworth and others are represented. At the same time, the extended coursework begins; boys are often given free choice over the question and text here, with dons offering bespoke support throughout the course.