On Thursday 13th July students from Years 7 and 10 were treated to creative writing masterclasses from Caroline Green.  

It was great to welcome Keren Darmon, who has recently completed a PhD in Feminism and Media Studies, to speak to Year 12 Media and Sociology students on Monday 10th July.  She spoke about her PhD and experience of working in the Media before getting students to reflect on definitions of femini...

Thank you so much to James van der Pool who came into the library on Friday 7th July to talk to some of our Year 7s about turning facts into stories.  James is a producer at the BBC and works on programmes like Horizon.  He showed how stories that can be complicated or serious can be made...

Many thanks to Louise Parsons who gave two fantastic high energy workshops in Year 8 English lessons on Tuesday 4th July.  Students loved finding out about Shakespearean insults and by the end of the session were performing the opening of Romeo and Juliet and stage-fighting like pros!  We...

Year 8s and Year 9s meet author Helen Donohoe to discuss Ireland in the 1980s, amongst other things.

Our Reading Champions evening in the library on Thursday 29th June was glorious.  Since March, our Year 7 students have been reading books from a list originally created by S F Said (our Patron of Reading), English teachers and the librarians.  They had to present the book they enjoyed the...