Applications for places in Year 10 for Sept. 2025
1. Our Independent Representative has applied the oversubscription set out in our Admission policy to applications received on or before 31st January.
2. Year 10 places have been allocated.
3. RDUTC has written and emailed all parents of students who have been allocated places with instructions about how to accept/decline the place.
4. The deadline for accepting places is 31st March 2025. Anyone not accepting their place by this date will be assumed to have declined the place.
5. If anyone declines their place, the Independent Representative will apply the oversubscription criteria to fill the vacancy/ies.
6. On 2nd April we will email parents of applicants who have NOT been allocated a place, informing them of the outcome of the oversubscription process, asking if they want their child to go on the waiting list and providing information about the appeals process.
7. For more information, please email the Principal, Sarah Pashley, at [email protected]
A Level – English Language & Literature
Course Information
AQA English Language and Literature A-Level
Students can engage with both English Language and English Literature whilst studying this integrated course, exploring a range of literary and non-literary discourses. Students will be given the opportunity to develop their subject expertise critically, creatively and independently.
It revolves around the concept of ‘words create worlds’ in both literature and elsewhere, exploring the similarities and differences within different forms of language and how meaning is created within fiction, non-fiction and personal speech.
The course will help students to develop the key critical, creative and analytical skills required both for progression to higher education and for enhanced employability. Students will analyse language whilst creating their own work too, combining skills they learnt in GCSE Language and GCSE Literature and evolving this expertise on a continuum from GCSE to higher education.
UNITS
‘Telling Stories’ focuses on how and why stories are told, how writers and speakers present stories, and how language choices help to shape the representations of different worlds and perspectives. ‘Exploring Conflict’ retains this focus on language choices but looks at how these choices help to construct ideas of conflict between people, and between people and their societies. ‘Making Connections’ focuses on language use in different types of text and requires students to make active connections between a literary text and some non-literary material.
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