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English
We can’t wait to meet you…Hello from the English Department! We are all so excited to meet and to get to you know when you start at Northgate. Normally during transition week we get to spend some time doing English tasks with you. Unfortunately, this time we won’t meet in person, however, we have put together some information on each of us and some of our favourite books! There are also some tasks based on characters and key skills for you to complete over the holidays so that you will be ready to go in September!
Mrs Kaufmann-Ward (EN7)
Head of Department
Mrs Richardson
(En1)Second in
department
Miss lyons(EN3)
Mrs galleyJoint head of
school
Mrs villarde(en8)
Ms Tonkin (En2)
Mrs graves (En4)
Head of year 7
Meet the Department…In the English department we have 9 English Teachers. Throughout this
booklet you will find out about our favourite childhood books. Come back to this page to fill those in. Can you find them all?
Mrs christie(en8)
Miss sanders(En6)
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Favourite Book in Year 7: Throughout this booklet you will also find out about some other books members of the English Department love…
Your LessonsMrs Richardson’s favourite book in Year 7: ‘Different
Directions’ by Theresa Breslin
• You will have 7 English lessons a
fortnight in the room indicated on your
timetable.
• You will have an introduction to The
Learning Hub in your first two weeks at
Northgate.
• In these lessons you will cover reading,
writing, spoken English and of
course…spelling, punctuation and
grammar!
• You will study a novel, play extracts,
poetry and other interesting texts and by
the end of the year you will also be able
to stand up and give a speech!
• Homework will be set by your teacher
for you to complete independently.
Some characters you will meet in Year 7… Miss Sanders’s
favourite book in Year 7: ‘Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll
Mrs Graves’s favourite book in
Year 7: ‘The Worst Witch’ by Jill
Murphy
Characters…Match up characters to their
descriptions
Read the descriptions of different characters and match them up with their pictures
One of Mrs Graves’s favourite novels is
‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen. Jane Austen
was an English novelist known primarily for her six
major novels, which interpret, critique and
comment upon the British landed gentry at the end
of the 18th century.
Mrs Kaufmann-Ward’s favourite
book in Year 7: ‘The Railway Children’ by
Edith Nesbit
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1. She was above all the most formidable female. She had once been a famous
athlete, and even not the muscles were still clearly in evidence. You could see
them in the bull-neck, in the big shoulders, in the thick arms, in the sinewy
wrists and in the powerful legs. Looking at her, you got the feeling that this
was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half.
Her face, I’m afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. She had
an obstinate chin, a cruel mouth and small arrogant eyes.
2. In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on
that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see.
She was dressed in rich materials - satins, and lace, and silks - all of white. Her
shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and
she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bright jewels
sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling
on the table. Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half-packed
trunks, were scattered about. She had not quite finished dressing, for she had
but one shoe on - the other was on the table near her hand - her veil was but
half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her
bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and
some flowers, and a prayer-book, all confusedly heaped about the looking-
glass.
3. If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing compared to the man sitting astride
it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide.
He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild – long tangles of bushy
black hair and beard hid most of his face, he has hands the size of dustbin lids
and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins. In his vast,
muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets.
4. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the
bearded dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about
them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear
quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering
along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off. They are
inclined to be fat in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green
and yellow); wear no shoes, because their feet grow natural leathery soles and
thick warm brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long
clever brown fingers, good-natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs
(especially after dinner, which they have twice a day when they can get
it).
Your Own Character Description
Your Character Description
You are going to choose a picture and write a description of the character you have chosen.
It is important that you choose someone who you think would be an interesting character to write about.
You will be given a success criteria and a vocabulary word wheel to help as well.
Mrs VIllarde’sfavourite book in
Year 7: ‘Nancy Drew Mystery
Stories’ by Carolyn Keene
One of Mrs Kaufmann-Ward’s favourite book
series is ‘The Complete Stories of Sherlock
Holmes’ by Arthur Conan Doyle. The character of
Sherlock Holmes is known for his powers of
deduction and amazing intellect!
What does interesting and engaging descriptive writing look like?
• Success Criteria:
• Clear – reader needs to be able to understand
• Interesting use of adjectives, verbs etc. –
reject your first choice and find a better word
• Use the senses to describe – how does your
character look, sound, feel, smell?
• Using techniques like simile, metaphor and
personification
• Use a range of sentence types - simple, compound,
complex. Don’t start every sentence with ‘the’
• Show the reader what your character is like,
don’t just tell them
Mrs Christie’s favourite book in
Year 7: ‘My Naughty Little Sister’ by
Dorothy Edwards
One of Mrs Villarde’s favourite books is ‘Pigeon
English’ by Stephen Kelman. It is told from the
point of view of Harrison Opoku, an eleven-year-
old Ghanaian immigrant living on a London estate.
Your Turn…
• Choose the character you are going to describe
• Use the ideas on the next few pages to help you plan
• Write 1-2 paragraphs to describe your character
• Remember our success criteria
• Use your planning and the word wheel on the next page
to help you
Miss Lyon’s favourite book in Year 7: ‘Noughts and Crosses’ by
Malorie Blackman
Mrs Galley’s favourite book in
Year 7: ‘Little Women’ by Louisa
May Alcott
One of Mrs Christie’s favourite books is ‘To Kill A
Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee. The plot and
characters are loosely based on Lee's
observations of her family, her neighbours and an
event that occurred near her hometown of
Monroeville, Alabama in 1936, when she was ten.
Word Wheel
Character 1 Character 2
Character 3 Character 4
Character Description Writing Task
• Now you have chosen your picture you need to think about how you are going to write your description of them.
• Here are some ideas to help you:
Appearance
Choose 3 features on their face to describe. For example their nose, their eyes and their hair. What do they remind you of? Can you describe them using a metaphor and/or interesting verb? For example: his nose jutted out of his face, a craggy rock in the middle of his face. Could you introduce a colour when describing these features? For example: her ivory skin was as pure as a white dove.
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Character Description Writing Task
Actions
• Now you need to make your character do something. Choose an action, for example picking up an object, making a drink etc. How would they do this action? What can you reveal about them as a character by introducing this movement. Think about using interesting verbs and adverbs. For example: his hands trembled as they slowly reached out for the cup. He fumbled for the handle and desperately tried to get the rim to his mouth without spilling the hot tea over himself.
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Emotions
• How does your character feel? You can imagine them in a particular situation or decide what emotion they are expressing the picture and describe that. For example: He was too ashamed to go back to his village without food. His desperation made sweat trickle down his forehead.
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One of Mrs Galley’s favourite books is ‘Little Women’ by
Louisa May Alcott. the story follows the lives of the four
March sisters- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy- and details their
passage from childhood to womanhood. It is loosely
based on the lives of the author and her three sisters.
Character Description Writing Task
Now bring all your planning ideas together and write a paragraph to describe your character:
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One of Miss Sanders’s favourite books is ‘Black Beauty’
by Anna Sewell. The story is narrated in the first person
as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse
named Black Beauty- beginning with his carefree days as
a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult
life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the
country.
English Summer Challenge…Character Collage/Mood Board
The English Department would like you to create a collage or mood board based on your favourite character.This can be your favourite character from a book, or if you want it can be your favourite character from a film.
You can draw, use a computer or collect items and stick them on your collage or mood board. There are some examples below.
The best ones will be displayed on Open Evening and everyone who completes this holiday work will be awarded their first merits at high school.
English Summer ChallengeThe English Department would like you to create a collage or
mood board based on your favourite character.
This can be your favourite character from a book, or if you want
it can be your favourite character from a film.
You should decide:
• Who is your favourite character and why?
• What objects do you associate with your character?
• What does your character look like?
• What happens to your character during the book/film they
are in? How can you represent this in your collage or mood
board?
• What emotions does your character experience? How can
you represent these in your collage or mood board?
When you have thought about the ideas above, you can create
your collage or mood board. This can be done by hand, on a
computer or by collecting different materials to make a mood
board. You can also add quotations said by your character if you
like.
We would like to take in the finished products the week
beginning the 14th September, so don’t worry about bringing
them in during the first week of term. Everyone who completes
the project will be awarded merits, and exceptional pieces and
exceptional effort will also be rewarded.
We hope you enjoy this project and we look forward to finding
out all about your characters in September.
Key Skills… The tasks on these two pages link to Mrs Kaufmann-Ward’s favourite stories when she was in Year 7. Can you remember the famous detective? There is a clue below!
Ms Tonkin’s favourite book in Year 7:
‘The Midnight Fox’ by Betsy Byars.
One of Mrs Richardson’s favourite books is ‘Jane
Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte. The book is a
Bildungsroman (coming of age novel) which
follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine.
including her growth to adulthood and her love for
Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield
Hall.
You are the latest recruit to the S.C.S.I. team (the SPaG Crime Scene
Investigators). Your first assignment is to find and correct all the
mistakes in the attached document. You are keen to impress your
new boss, Inspector E. Rrors, and show him that you are a worthy
member of the S.C.S.I. There are 17 spelling mistakes (some of which are homophones),
14 punctuation errors and 6 grammatical errors.
Error report
Errors: Tally of errors found:
Spelling
Punctuation
Grammar
Key Skills…
Highlight the errors as you discover them and write your corrections in the margins:
One of Ms Tonkin’s favourite books is ‘Small
Island’ by Andrea Levy. Mainly set in 1948, the plot
focuses on a group of Jamaican immigrants, who,
escaping economic hardship on their own ‘small
island’, move to England, the ‘Mother Country’, for
which the men have fought during World War II.
School trip
The students’ set off from school just after asembly Everyone was piled onto the bus in
eager anticipation of the day ahead. The teacher’s sat at the front and tryed to keep
everyone quite but it was an uphill struggle.
After traveling for about half an our, the coach turned off the mane road into a winding
country lane. it was at this point that the enjine started making funny whining noises. The
driver went pail and the coach came to a sudden stop. Don’t worry,’ he said. ‘Ill have a
look at the engine and we will soon be on our weigh again.’
But half an hour past and the bus was still stationery. Their excitement turned to frustration
and boardom. Sum started to eat there packed lunches and the teachers faces was
etched with worry. ‘Don’t worry’, said Bob, the coach driver. ‘I will ring the depot and get
them to send another coach. we will soon be on our way again?’
Half an hour turned into one hour. One hour turned into too. The teachers had been
threw their entire repertoire of travel games and music and the students were became
irritable. The heat in the coach was unbearable. ‘Dont worry’ said Bob, trying to raise their
spirits. ‘Ill turn up the air conditioning and we will soon cool down’
Just as soon as he had said this, the releaf coach turned up and it really were a relief.
They wearily changed coaches and started on us way back to school. It was a trip that
should of been memorable for different reasons.
Key Skills…
One of Miss Lyons’s favourite novels is ‘Brick Lane’ by Monica Ali.
Brick Lane is a street at the heart of London's Bangladeshi
community. Ali's novel of the same name follows the life of
Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London at the age
of 18.
SPaG Crime Scene Investigators (S.C.S.I.)
Mark your own: School trip
Spelling errors
Punctuation errors
Grammar errors
The students set off from school just after assembly. Everyone was piled onto the bus
in eager anticipation of the day ahead. The teachers sat at the front and tried to keep
everyone quiet but it was an uphill struggle.
After travelling for about half an hour, the coach turned off the main road into a winding
country lane. It was at this point that the engine started to make a funny whining noise.
The driver went pale and the coach came to a sudden stop. ‘Don’t worry,’ he said. ‘I’ll
have a look at the engine and we will soon be on our way again.’
But half an hour passed and the bus was still stationary. Their excitement turned to
frustration and boredom. Some started to eat their packed lunches and the teachers’
faces were etched with worry. ‘Don’t worry,’ said Bob, the coach driver. ‘I will ring the
depot and get them to send another coach. We will soon be on our way again.’
Half an hour turned into one hour. One hour turned into two. The teachers had been
through their entire repertoire of travel games and music and the students were
becoming irritable. The heat in the coach was unbearable. ‘Don’t worry,’ said Bob, trying
to raise their spirits. ‘I’ll turn up the air conditioning and we will soon cool down.’
Just as soon as he had said this, the relief coach turned up and it really was a relief. They
wearily changed coaches and started on their way back to school. It was a trip that should
have been memorable for different reasons.
English Word Search Try to find some of the favourite novels of
members of the English Department
W Y Y J T N P Q N T M J P G D
E W E N A L K C I R B S I Z N
T T B J F O B K J O Z F G V A
V J B S H U W C W D S H E G L
B L A C K B E A U T Y J O G S
G F R G I Z E A J H L B N E I
S H E R L O C K H O L M E S L
I Y G U N V F X M D R P N E L
N Y N X I I W M R F Q Y G R A
K X A E W B Z I M H H L L Y M
F C H D M T S U G G B N I E S
Y S T L M X R K D O H X S E S
V D R I B G N I K C O M H N M
P H O O H O P G Q G M F K A L
L P N M X O D F S L W E K J P
BLACK BEAUTY BRICK LANEJANE EYREMOCKINGBIRD
NORTHANGER ABBEYPIGEON ENGLISHSHERLOCK HOLMESSMALL ISLAND