[senco-forum] Entry level English

I am now scheduled (at short notice) to teach one lesson of English entry

We do AQA Entry level and i'm finding it fantstic to teach! It's based on 
modules - pupils submit the 5 best. You do 2 reading modules and 2 writing 
modules and 1 SL. One of the reading and 1 of the wriring has to be an 
externally set assignment done in test conditions.

Last year my group did the "media" modules and had great fun looking at 
newsapers, adverts etc and then we did the "work" modules as they were 
having work exp in summer term. I got our connexions people to help and we 
set things up so they had to look at job ads, write a cv / fill in form and 
apply for a job. Cx then interviewed them.

Each AQA modules has 3 levels Entry 1, 2 and 3 and all are linked to the AQA 
Unit scheme so aftyer each set of modules i sent them to our AQA Unit 
moderator and they got "real" glossy certificates. THis year I'm going to do 
the leisure modules and then because of school requirements some will have 
to be entered for GCSE (!!!) I'm doing a drama module so we can "look" at 
Romeo and Juliet and then another which has some poetry.

I'm really impressed with it- having gt fun teaching it as its relevant and 
the kids are enjoying it (or seem to be) and love having their certificates.

Lorraine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Nevin-Drummond" <linda at mirin-361.eclipse.co.uk>
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Entry level English

>I am now scheduled (at short notice) to teach one lesson of English entry
> level (OCR) to a small group of year 10s.Another  teacher will teach the
> coursework and I will do the skills lessons. I haven't taught English for 
> a
> few years so would be glad to get some ideas from anyone out there who has
> the experience. The students mostly have statements and are all boys, some
> with challenging behaviour and I would like to capture their interest. All 
> I
> can find so far at school is an English Matters book which doesn't seem 
> very
> exciting.
> Linda
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