English

To mark Rabbie Burns’ Day, year 10 toasted the famous Scottish bard by writing cinquain poems of their own and tasting some haggis. You can find a video of their work here. Many people thought it was delicious!  

As part of their ‘Autobiography’ unit of work, Year 8 wrote letters to their Primary School teachers, which were then delivered to the schools. Charis McIlveen is one of the lucky students who received a reply.

These students achieved the English Department certificates for Year 8 ‘Eager Eight’, Year 9 ‘Homework Hero’ and Year 10 ‘Top Talker’. Well done to all!

On Wednesday 13th December Year 9 had an opportunity to listen to stories told by Patrick Ryan, who has worked as an author, teacher and storyteller for over forty years.

Congratulations to the English Department’s Year 8 ‘Eager Eights’. Certificates were presented to the top student in each Year 8 class who has shown the most enthusiasm in English.  Congratulations also to the Year 9 ‘Homework Heroes’. Certificates were presented to the top student in each Year 9 English class who has consistently handed their

Year 8 English students proudly displaying their ‘All About Me’ bags which they designed as part of their Talking and Listening presentations.

Year 9 English students celebrated ‘National Poetry Day’ on the 6th October by writing the traditional Japanese poetry: the Haiku, on the theme of the environment.  The students had lots of fun and the poems produced are super! Clich here to view a highlights video of their work. We hope you enjoy the poems in

Yesterday Year 8 sleuths successfully solved the crime of “Who Stole Marie’s Glasses”? They needed to use all of their communication skills to solve clues, riddles and puzzles to find out who dunnit!