Year 9

Head of Year: Miss T Oyeniyi

Deputy Head of Year: Miss C Onanda

 

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Tutor Groups and Tutors 2019/20

Key Information and Events

Year 9 students have now received their option choices. As they begin their GCSE courses, they will be offered the opportunity to take part in various workshops and visits throughout the year to help enrich their academic studies. This includes visiting Parliament and working with various academic institutes.

Students will also be given the opportunity to gain extra qualifications through PiXL Edge.

Students will work independently in their spare time to complete a range of activities to reach Level 1:Pixl Apprentice, Level 2: Pixl Graduate and Level 3: Pixl Master.

The activities will focus students on developing the following core attributes:

• Leadership

• Organisation

• Resilience

• Initiative

• Communication.

Please encourage your son to take advantage of this great opportunity to develop skills which are essential for life and further education/ employment.

 

Homework

The move from KS3 to KS4 for year 9 students means that homework has even more significance than before.

Tasks are given to support and develop the learning taking place in the classroom.

Useful Links

PiXL Edge Booklett

 

Reading List

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou

Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe

Exodus- Julie Bertagna

Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

Great Expectations- Charles Dickens

Silas Marner-George Eliot

Coram Boy-Jamila Gavin

Lord of the Flies-William Golding

The Old Man and the sea- Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

Long Walk to Freedom-Nelson Mandela

A Monster Calls- Patrick Ness

Animal Farm-George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty- Four- George Orwell

Frankenstein-Mary Shelley

Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck

Julius Caesar-William Shakespeare

The Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien

The Book Thief- Marcus Zasak