At Firth Park Academy, our English department is motivated and driven to help your child succeed. 

Through a stimulating, exciting and high calibre curriculum, the teachers within our department strive to provide a scintillating series of lessons that encourage a love of learning. Our curriculum is one of the most diverse in the city, covering not just English authors but writers from Russia, America, Nigeria and Slovakia among others. We are keen to share and celebrate the extraordinary diversity of the Firth Park cohort to ensure plentiful opportunities for pupils to share and celebrate their voices across contexts. We push pupils to engage with a range of challenging and high quality texts usually studied at A-Level: Crime and Punishment, The Great Gatsby and poems from other cultures. The determination and hard work of the teachers within our department has led to English results improving year on year and they are only set to get stronger. 

In English lessons, we write in blue or black pen. The teachers mark the work in red pen and may highlight any spelling mistakes in yellow highlighter. Students then respond and improve their work in green pen.