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Wilderness Times | Autumn 2021
FACULTY IN FOCUS
ENGLISH Connecting and empowering through language and story Over the last six months, Wilderness School has encouraged and supported each academic faculty in undergoing a renewal of their curriculum.
and reflective works of their own, they become empathic, confident young women who trust in the power of their own unique voice and feel inspired to enact positive change in the world.
This process has involved reimagining our faculty’s purpose, vision and creating an Essence Statement - an articulation of the faculty’s identity and mission. This has led to faculties creating their own set of learning requirements, which explain the educational entitlement of each student within the context of the subject area, and performance standards, which are used to assess and provide feedback to students on their learning and growth. In the English Faculty, we are proud of our collaboration and shared vision for English and are excited to share our ‘essence’ with the Wilderness community.
Students will be exposed to a range of provocative texts. Through this, we foster their bravery, challenge their assumptions and open doors to new perspectives. In this way, every Wilderness girl is enabled to learn and live creatively, independently and authentically.
At Wilderness School, our students will become connected and empowered individuals who appreciate the beauty and potency of language and recognise that stories sit at the heart of the human experience. Through engaging with a range of literary and other works and creating imaginative, analytical
By sharing and appreciating stories across a range of contexts and media, we celebrate vulnerability, empathy, and recognition of the beauty and diversity of the human experience. Through engaging with the narratives of others, we teach our girls to understand themselves and their world and build relationships founded on respect. In doing so, we help to develop a student’s moral compass. We invite girls to discover and develop their personal voice as they consider and navigate their role in an ever-changing world. We teach our girls to advocate for, and enact, their beliefs, live ethically and use language to incite positive and sustainable change.
LEARNING REQUIREMENTS At Wilderness School, English students will: • Use language with purpose in the oral, written and multimodal forms. • Analyse the relationship between ideas, context, language, audience, medium and purpose. • Appreciate the beauty and potency of language and literature. • Develop a sense of themselves as author and as responder. • Interrogate texts to develop a personal and critical response. • Analyse intertextual connections. • Reflect upon their own creative and learning processes in order to grow and learn. • Discover and develop their own unique voice and feel empowered to use it with bravery.
