English Language

Please apply for all courses via Help You Choose. Applications will open on October 21st.

In order to ensure success in the Sixth Form, we have designed different pathways to suit your individual needs. Please see below for the specific entry criteria. In addition to this, students will need to check the specific entry criteria for their chosen subjects by checking each course descrpition.

The General Pathway

This pathway is for students who are unsure about which way their future will take them and therefore would like to keep their options as open as possible by gaining UCAS points with their Module Two Option.

Module One: three A Levels

Module Three: Enrichment Course

Module Four: Academic Coaching

You will need English and Mathematics at Grade 4 or above and at least four other GCSE subjects at Grade 4 or above.

The Combined Pathway

This pathway is for students who are unsure which way their future will take them and therefore would like to keep their options as open as possible.

Module One – either one of the three below options:

Two A-levels and one specialist qualification (equivalent to one A Level)

One A-level and two specialist qualifications (equivalent to one A Level each)

Three specialist qualifications (equivalent to one A Level each)

Module Two: Enrichment Course

Module Three: Academic Coaching

You will need English or Mathematics at Grade 4 or above and at least four other GCSE subjects at Grade 4 or above.

The Specialist Pathway

This pathway is equivalent to three A Levels and is designed for students who already know which career path they would like to take. Please refer to our on offer to view the range.

Module One: Advanced Specialist Qualification

Module Two: Work Placement

Module Three: Enrichment Course

You will need English or Mathematics at Grade 4 or above and at least four other GCSE subjects at Grade 4 or above.

The Extended Pathway

This pathway is for students aspiring to study at Oxbridge or one of the Russell Group Universities or who want to follow a high-demand course such as Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary, Law or Engineering.

Module One: Three A Levels

Module Two: One Advanced Subsidiary Level

Module Three: Enrichment Course

Module Four: Academic Coaching

You will need English and Mathematics at Grade 5 or above and at least four other GCSE subjects at Grade 5 or above.

The T Level Pathway

This course is equivalent to three A Levels and is designed for students who already know which career path they would like to take.

Module One: T Level Course

Module Two: Industry Placement

You will need English or Mathematics at Grade 4 or above and at least four other GCSE subjects at Grade 4 or above.

Language is an ever-changing means of communication, which evolves as we do. Whether it is the influence of William the Conqueror in 1066 or the latest teenage buzzwords, our range of vocabulary and means of expression move with the times. If you are interested in exploring how your language has come about and what influences it, then this course is for you. In a world where communication in a range of media is enormously important, this course makes a real contribution to developing an understanding of why ‘language is power’.

AS/Year 12 Unit

Unit 1: Language and the Individual

The aim of this unit is to introduce students to language study, exploring textual variety. This unit introduces students to methods of language analysis to explore concepts of audience, purpose, genre, mode and representation.

Unit 2: Language Varieties

The aim of this unit is to allow students to explore language variety. Students will study the key concepts of audience, purpose, genre and mode and will explore language in its wider social and geographical contexts. Students will study varieties of English within the British Isles. This unit will also require students to study social attitudes to, and debates about, language diversity.

A Level/Year 13 Unit

Unit 1: Language, the Individual and Society

You will be introduced to methods of language analysis to explore concepts of audience, purpose, genre, mode and representation and the study of children’s language development, and explore how children learn language and how they understand and express themselves through language.

Unit 2: Language Diversity and Change

You will study the key concepts of audience, purpose, genre and mode and exploration of language in its wider social, geographical and temporal contexts including the processes of language change. You will study social attitudes to, and debates about, language diversity and change.

Non-Examination Assessment: Language in Action

You will explore and learn to analyse language data independently to develop and reflect upon your own writing expertise, requiring you to carry out individual research, a language investigation and a piece of original writing and commentary.

AS Assessment Two examinations each worth 50%

A Level Assessment Two examinations each worth 40% and one coursework element worth 20%

• You will need to achieve the pathway criteria, please see the prospectus for further information

• You will need to achieve a Grade 5 or above in GCSE English Language

Understanding how language works as a system and having the ability to manipulate language is a life skill. The course could lead to Language Studies at Higher Education, Teaching, Social Work, Journalism and other Media Work, Local Government or the Civil Service: in fact, to any area where communication and people are important.