The defining emphasis in English at the Under School is on each boy discovering, and subsequently developing, his own ‘voice’: we want our pupils to listen and read as active individuals, to speak and write with real originality, with flair and passion.
In their time at the Under School, boys follow a smooth path that leads them from key skills to advanced approaches in the most wide-ranging and creative of ways. Lessons are stimulating and exciting, and the written work and oral presentations that come out of them are intelligent and rich: one week students may be delivering Power Point presentations on a key character or theme from Lord of the Flies, the next they find themselves writing a newspaper editorial ‘In Praise of Geeks’. English at the Under School is fast, fun, and full of colour, and with thrice-yearly reading lists, a weekly school bookshop, and assemblies delivered by inspirational figures from all walks of life – recent guests include a Polar explorer, an ITN broadcaster and the author of the World War II spy novel Agent Zigzag – boys are never short on either inspiration or motivation.