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World Book Day

09.03.2024 // English Faculty // Uncategorized

Congratulations to our World Book Day winners for the “Get Caught Reading” competition!KS3 Matilda in a wonderful tractor, KS4 Arthur while shoe shopping,KS5 Leoni in red, and Mrs. Redpath in the sauna—what creative and imaginative entries! A huge thank you to everyone who participated in this competition. It’s been a fantastic week celebrating the joy...

CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY

04.03.2021 // English Faculty

To celebrate World Book Day, Mr. Watkins and Mrs. Brayshaw distributed some free books to all of our year 7 and year 8 students who are currently studying in school....

SHORT STORY CLUB SHOOTS FOR SUCCESS

03.03.2021 // English Faculty

A new and exciting Short Story Club has had a successful start, despite the challenges of the Covid pandemic and remote learning. Mr Murphy’s Short Story Club, which is open to all Year 7 pupils, was implemented at the start of January 2021 and has had 8 successful weeks of engagement with students.“Originally, we had planned for the club to start towards the end of the Autumn term and be conducted after school and in-person,” says Mr Murphy, founder of the club,...

WORLD BOOK DAY

01.03.2021 // English Faculty

World Book Day is being celebrated on Thursday 4th March. WBD is a charity founded by publishers and booksellers in the UK and Ireland. Every year £1 book vouchers are given out to students and can be exchanged for especially written books. Details of how to use the digital voucher are in the parents' newsletter. A paper voucher will be given out when students return to school. Although book shops won't be open, most supermarkets stock the £1 books.

STUDENTS IMPRESS WITH COMMITMENT, EFFORT AND EXTROADINARY LEVELS OF DETAIL

23.02.2021 // Academic // English Faculty

Last half term, Mrs Richards focused on the Non-Fiction GCSE Exam Paper with her Year 9 and Year 10 classes and set them some similar challenges. One of the extended writing tasks was to create a ‘Rough Guide to…’.

Winter Creative Writing Competition

15.12.2020 // English Faculty

On 11th December, The English Department crowned Alex B (Year 9) as the winner of the Winter Creative Writing Competition, which was advertised on Instagram @nssfc_english. Alex was awarded some stationery prizes and a £10 book voucher. Alex created an impressive description using some ambitious vocabulary and told the tale of a pickpocket in Victorian London. It was clear that Alex was inspired by A Christmas Carol that Year 9 are currently studying in class.

Lucie impresses her English teachers with her poem ‘The Witches Spell’.

13.07.2020 // Academic // English Faculty

As part of an exploration of the witches in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', students were given an optional extra task to try and create their own spell using rhyming couplets, regular rhythm and a Shakespearean language style - I am sure you will agree this is an incredibly difficult challenge!

Readers Reviews Rewarded

01.07.2020 // English Faculty

The English department recently dedicated a whole week of learning to reading. As part of this, we set a competition to review any book and opened it up to all students. As usual, the quality of responses was superb and Miss O’Donnell had a difficult time picking the winners.

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CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY

SHORT STORY CLUB SHOOTS FOR SUCCESS

WORLD BOOK DAY

STUDENTS IMPRESS WITH COMMITMENT, EFFORT AND EXTROADINARY LEVELS OF DETAIL

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Lucie impresses her English teachers with her poem ‘The Witches Spell’.

Readers Reviews Rewarded

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