Taunton School helping lead the way with worldwide academic research

Taunton School has partnered with the University of Bath on a new research project aiming to raise the standard of literacy across the world.

The British Academic Written English Secondary School (BAWESS) corpus project has been designed to investigate the role of language in representing knowledge in different disciplines by collecting one million words written by students across IGCSE/GCSE, A-Level and International Baccalaureate qualifications.

Taunton School has been selected as a partner school to submit its students’ work, which will count towards the one-million-word goal forming the basis of the research, and to contribute to and benefit from the resulting research.

Taunton School is also proud to announce its involvement in the Language and Literacy Education Network (LLEN). The School is chairing the Europe and Middle East Secondary School working group, which aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge academic research from around the world and teaching and learning in secondary school classrooms.

Dr Graham Mallard, Deputy Head Academic at Taunton School, has said that “it is exciting to see Taunton School increasingly contributing to important educational research projects and leading the way in establishing and implementing best teaching practise, from which our students are already benefitting.”

The LLEN is an international network that brings together scholars from across the globe to apply a range of methodological approaches and perspectives to explore educational challenges.

In times in which levels of literacy are increasingly a concern, Taunton School is proud to be working towards improving the standard of literacy for students in the UK and worldwide. Both programmes will help produce strategies for teaching and learning that are evidence informed.

Taunton School’s academic provision offers a pathway for everyone, including GCSEs, IGCSEs, and one-year and two-year GCSEs in a vast range of subjects, as well as A-Levels, BTECs, the International Baccalaureate and the International Foundation Year in Sixth Form. It has recently introduced an Academic Colours initiative to recognise students who are excelling academically, joining its existing Sports Colours and Performing Arts Colours offering.