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Teacher in Charge: Mrs Stacey Stewart
stacey.stewart@wdsg.school.nz
Course description:
This course forms part of the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls Year 11 Certificate.
Year 11 English is about finding your voice, deepening your thinking, and building the skills to engage with the world through language. In this course, you’ll explore powerful ideas, challenge perspectives, and craft your own written, visual, and spoken texts with growing confidence and purpose.
You’ll study a rich mix of texts — novels, film, poetry, and non-fiction — and learn to analyse how language is used to shape meaning, move audiences, and reflect culture. Alongside this, you’ll be developing the essential foundations needed to thrive in NCEA Level 2 English.
Note: Some students may be invited into the Year 11 Advanced English programme, based on Year 10 examination results and teacher recommendations.
Course of study:
The course offers space for personal choice: you’ll have input into what you write about, how you present your thinking, and the issues you explore — all while growing as a critical thinker, communicator, and creator.
Assessment:
Students will complete a range of coursework assessments, including a film study, a novel study, and the creation of oral and visual texts. They will also develop their ability to analyse unfamiliar texts. The Term 3 examinations will include a response to text essay and an unfamiliar text analysis of three unseen texts.
Costs:
Stationery: exercise book and clear file or folder, refill and coloured tab dividers; pens, highlighters and gluestick.
Entry criteria:
Year 11 English is a compulsory subject. Placement into the appropriate English course (General or Advanced) will be based on a student’s Year 10 English results — with particular consideration given to their reading and writing skills — and will be determined by the Head of English.
Future pathways:
This course is a prerequisite for Level 2 English at Dio.
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