Week 3 Term 4: English Department - English Department Starter Pack: Plan for Term 4 2024 (October 28 - November 01)

English Department Careers Evening Term 3 2024

As a department, we like to discuss what our priorities and goals are. Sometimes our priorities change as we journey through the term but we try to stick to our goals as best as we can.

Below are some of the goals that we would like to work towards in Term 3.

NCEA Exam Preparation - Term 4 is such an important time for our department and students. We will be dedicating time in not only supporting our students in finishing their internal assessments but also helping prepare and study for their Derived Grade Exams (Week 2 Term 4) and NCEA Examinations (Week 4 and Week 4 Term 4). We also have three Year 13 students who are sitting the Scholarship English Exam (Week 6 Term 4)


Redesign our Junior English Program - I am excited to redesign our Junior English program. I am hoping to work alongside our Library Department to ensure that we use the space in a meaningful way with our Year 9 and Year 10 students. We are wanting to encourage ‘reading for pleasure’ in our program next year.


Academic Push for NCEA Level 1, 2 + 3 English students - We are still on our pursuit to ensuring that our students get the credits they are offered across NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English. We will be working with our students closely in making sure that this is a success for them/


Our Voice Vol.2 - We are excited to publish and share ‘Our Voice Vol.2’ publication in Term 4. A huge thank you to Mr Spruyt who will be collating and producing this year’s publication.

Junior English + Senior English Plan for Term 4 2024

With the start of Term 4 already underway, I want to acknowledge some of the things that we have finished and also what we are looking forward to: 

• Internal Assessments - we have officially closed the internal assessment schedule for 2024. We are now in the process of completing the marking and moderating for all of our NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English internal assessments. 
• Derived Grade Exams - we have finished our Derived Grade Exams and we are now going to prepare our students for the NCEA Exams which take place in Week 4 and Week 5 of Term 4 (November). 
• Our Voices - The first publication is almost ready and we are excited to share this with our school and community. 
• Junior Exams - we are preparing our Junior English Exams which is slated for Week 5 and Week 6 of Term 4 (November).