The mission of the English Department at Thomas Becket Catholic School is to:

• Cultivate understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of the English language, its speakers and writers and its literature and cultures.
• Aspire our students to use the language creatively, critically and effectively at an ‘Oxbridge standard’ to participate ethically in civic and professional life.
• Provide our students with access to a range of Literature in order to foster creative and critical abilities, promote multiculturalism and tolerance in a globalised world.
• Instil an appreciation of a cultural, historical, ethical, aesthetic linguistic force that shapes our lives, whilst also nurturing an inquisition for the English language, its history, conventions, structures and uses.
• Provide opportunities to merge the art of creative and transactional writing with literary insight which will provide a hands-on experience that will empower our students to respond to human experience in a changing world.