Welcome Year 9!
Sticky postHello Year 9 and welcome to your English blog. I hope that you will use this to guide you through our learning in English this year as well as to find information about homework assignments and English projects. I will… Continue Reading →
You will be entering the Amnesty Young Human Rights Reporter Competition this year. Your first task is to plan your article, it can be based on our study of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and the human rights issues that this involves or… Continue Reading →
This term we have started a new unit of work inspired by our year’s theme: Politics, Context and Power. We are aiming to be as creative as possible but also to work on improving your analytical writing skills. In particular,… Continue Reading →
You are working on designing and owning your own programme of learning for the next three weeks, which will result in a comparative analytical essay. This essay will compare three texts studied through the concept of the anti-hero. Today we… Continue Reading →
Yesterday we had a philosophical debate starting with the realities of the anti hero which led through to a vigorous discussion about human morality. Beginning with a question about whether the undercover policeman Mark Kennedy could be considered an anti… Continue Reading →