Meet the Staff...
Best book ever read: So many, so little time! Probably Pride and Prejudice, The Da Vinci Code, Mayor of Casterbridge (what a mixture!)
All time favourite author: Again lots to choose from but Jane Austen, Dan Brown, Thomas Hardy.
Favourite film: Probably Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth!) and also Bridget Jones (With Colin Firth) and Dirty Dancing.
Best theatre production ever seen:
Phantom of the Opera.
Miss Annetts joined The Cornwallis in 2006.
Best book ever read: The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins.
All time favourite author: Sidney Sheldon.
Favourite film: The Fast and the Furious.
Best theatre production ever seen: The Lion King.
Miss Cox joined The Cornwallis in 2006.
Best book ever read: Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.Tolkien.
All time favourite author: Too many to choose from!
Favourite films: Pearl Harbour, Forrest Gump and Pretty Woman.
Best theatre production ever seen: We Will Rock You.
Mr Davies is a member of the Senior Management Team and has been teaching English at The Cornwallis since 1999.
Best book ever read :I enjoyed Dracula a lot, and believe it or not thought that Homer's Iliad was good. As school books go, Catcher in the Rye is so far ahead of the others it's in a different league.
All time favourite author: Not actually sure
Favourite film: I have two favourites- The Wicker Man (with Christopher Lee - obscure British cult horror film) and all time favourite - The Magnificent Seven (finest western, best action movie and greatest film music ever!)
Miss Foy has been teaching English at The Cornwallis since 2004 and is responsible for mentoring and INSET provision within the department.
Best books ever read: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
All time favourite author: Utterly incapable of deciding...
Favourite film: ET; Dodgeball.
Best theatre production ever seen: Les Miserables.
Miss Lancley joined The Cornwallis in 2006.
Best book ever read: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey.
All time favourite author: I don't really have a favourite, I like to read books by lots of different authors though I love Donne and Blake for poetry.
Favourite film: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Grosse Pointe Blank.
Best theatre production ever seen: When I was doing my A levels I saw a production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, it was the first time I'd really been to the theatre and I loved it.
Mr Masters joined The Cornwallis in 2006.
Miss McGill has been at The Cornwallis since 2002 and is our Head of Department. So if you have any problems with English then you should find her!
Best book ever read: Pen and Gwen go pea picking
All time favourite author: Does Bridget Jones count??
Favourite film: Grease 1 closely followed by Grease 2
Best theatre production ever seen: Any production of Hamlet or Jamie Wilson production at The Cornwallis.
Mrs Price has been teaching English at The Cornwallis since 2004 and is Second in Department.
Best book ever read: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
All time favourite author: Enid Blyton, but it has to be Patricia Cornwell if I'm sunbathing
Favourite film: The Shawshank Redemption, Dirty Dancing and High Society
Best theatre production ever seen: The Lion King.
Mrs Roberts has been at The Cornwallis since 2002 and has just been awarded AST- this means she is an advanced skills teacher (she's really good!).
Best book ever read: Bridget Jones' Diary.
All time favourite author: Marian Keys.
Favourite film: Love Actually.
Best theatre production ever seen: Woman in Black.
Mrs Robinson has been at The Cornwallis since 2003, she teaches English and is also Second in the Media Department. She recently got married and has just had a beautiful baby girl called Rilley
Best book ever read: Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen and all of the Harry Potter books!
All time favourite author: James Patterson, Dean Koontz and J.K.Rowling
Favourite film :'The Breakfast Club', 'Seven', 'Saw', 'Pride and Prejudice' (BBC 6 hour version!!!) Anything with Brad Pitt!
Best theatre production ever seen: Absolutely loved 'Miss Saigon'
Miss Rodgers joined us at The Cornwallis in 2005.
Best book ever read: The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins.
All time favourite author: Wilkie Collins.
Favourite film: Too many to choose from! But I think Twelve Angry Men is up there, along with Sleepless in Seattle (can't beat a soppy chick flick!)
Best theatre production ever seen: Cats.
Mr Smith is the head of the media department.
Mrs Smith is responsible for many of the projects which help those with additional educational needs and she also teaches English
Best book ever read: Pride and Prejudice- an amazing book
All time favourite author: Jane Austen
Favourite film:
Best theatre production ever seen: Kenneth Brannagh's Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford
Miss Steel has been teaching English at The Cornwallis since 2004 and is responsible for ICT coordination within the department.
Best book ever read: Ooh, lots... I read too many books to pick one...
All time favourite authors: Jane Austen, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson.
Favourite film: Any Star Trek one- obviously!! Science Fiction is my favourite genre.
Best theatre production ever seen: Wicked- you've got to love that green witch!.
