English

Galway Debating

We are proud and happy to announce that our Junior and Intermediate Debating teams have won the respective divisions of the 2019 competition. Year 8 students: Malinsa H, Angel J and Kamryn D are our Junior winners with Year 9 students: Monica C, Sophie H and Sofia C argued beautifully on the day – congratulations to these eloquent and mighty champions! We are so proud of you. We are also proud of our Senior team (Helena R, Aaron R and India L) and our other Junior (Poppy B, Deborah B and Abhay M) and Intermediate (Hayley R, Chloe G and Maddison C) teams who all made the Finals.

What a successful season of Debating we have all had! We cannot wait to see what is in store for Galway Debating in 2020 – student participation in this event is always so inspiring!

Miss Sarah Howells (Junior Coach) &

 Mr Anthony Politini (Intermediate Coach)

VCE Englishes

A note to students moving from Year 10 to Year 11 and their Parents/Guardians. There are three Englishes available to study as part of the VCE: English, English Language and English Literature. English offers a beautiful bridge from the study in Year 10 to VCE and fulfills many a prerequisite for tertiary study; English Language is quite niche and offers learners a more ‘Linguistics’ based course and Literature allows for a gorgeous foray into texts and an engagement with them including inspiring and creating opinions and interpretations based on them.

It has been a pleasure to speak with the Year 10 students as they decide which English and/or combination of two Englishes will complement their VCE course best. The presentation at the beginning of Term 3 in Brookhill Assembly on the subjects is on My Aitken (in the Year 10 Topics page, under ‘Subject Selection’). I encourage the Year 10 students to speak with me further in order to choose the English (or combination of Englishes) that best matches their Year 11 course.

Mr Anthony Politini

Head of Faculty English