Highlights of 2011 Results

This year’s GCSE results placed us, yet again, in the top 1% of schools nationwide demonstrating the outstanding progress made by our students! 87% of Year 9 students achieved Level 5+ at the end of Key Stage 3 and an incredible 82% attained an A*-C grade in both their GCSE English and GCSE English Literature - an excellent achievement by QK students and teachers, that far exceeds national figures! This represents an extremely pleasing set of exam results!

Current Developments

The Year 7, 8 and 9 curricula have been further developed in-line with Government requirements, creating cutting edge teaching, learning and assessment resources.

The entire GCSE English and English Literature course has been rewritten in order to create vibrant, challenging and effective lessons that respond to the requirements of the new GCSE specifications set out by exam boards. This course has been expanded to incorporate ‘Philosophy of Religion’ lessons to develop critical thinking, wider reading, formal debating skills and writing ability.

The A Level offer has now changed to include A Level Language and Literature to better reflect the interests and needs of our students.

The English Faculty also includes the English as an Additional Language (EAL) Department.

The QK English department works with the charity First Story

First Story is a charity that arranges for acclaimed authors to be writers-in-residence in state schools across the country. Each author leads weekly after-school creative writing workshops for up to sixteen Year 11 / 12 students. Over the course of an academic year, the students work to develop their writing skills and the creation of their own anthology of work. The final published piece is presented to the public at an Open House event at which the students can read their stories aloud to friends, families, publishers and agents.

Read coverage of First Story from The Independent