Stewards School
The English Department at Stewards is a vibrant, hardworking team of dedicated teachers, who work collaboratively and who are always striving to improve their teaching and their pupils’ learning.
Currently, the school is delighted with its best results at GCSE, and the best results ever seen from a school in Harlow!
Our guided reading scheme, which targets Years 7, 8 and some Year 9 classes, continues to progress from strength to strength, with new texts added to the scheme, which address wide-ranging issues as well as addressing the needs of skills in reading. Regularly, we are asked to speak about its impact when attending subject leaders' training and other CPD, as it has been recognised as an important initiative by HMI and Essex. Meetings run by the PTI have inspired us to seek out new texts, and the PTI has supported our view that whole texts should be engaged with to increase the pleasure of reading literature for life-long enjoyment.
Presently, we are in the process of completing an overhaul of the KS3 SOW, embedding APP into the SOW and the intention is to introduce this to KS4. The PTI has been instrumental in making us think about more challenging texts and embrace the teaching of Shakespeare to each year group in a more dynamic way. We are exploring another “Shakespeare Day” after our previous success! Thank you to the PTI!
Stewards School is a mixed school, with pupils from year 7 to 11, based in Harlow.