Category: English

25 October 22

On Thursday 6 October, Year 8 and 9 were very privileged to be given an inspirational talk by multi-award winning author Manjeet Mann. The bestselling author of Run, Rebel and The Crossing gave a presentation about her inspiration for her books, her life experiences and accomplishments. Her debut novel, Run, Rebel was inspired when Manjeet…

1 July 22

On Wednesday 22 June, Middle 5 received a talk on creative writing from Cecilia Knappl. Her talk was interactive and insightful, and inspired the students to explore creative thoughts in preparation for our upcoming GCSE English language creative writing coursework. The talk included analysing different poems followed by writing our own poems, using the prompts…

7 December 21

Congratulations to Eliyeh (L6RDD) who has won the BBC Radio 4 short play competition for new writers, aged 16 to 18! Her idea for her short play, called ‘A Piece of Fabric’, came from her observations during the pandemic. Eliyeh said: “I found it interesting how everyone’s social relationships were so altered and changed during…

30 June 21

Anthony Anaxagorou delivered a fascinating poetry workshop as part of the Bridge programme. Anthony specialises in poems about societal issues, such as race (as seen in the poem ‘After the Formalities’), and other prevalent topics.  As a group, we found it highly engaging, as we were encouraged to create our own poetry. We also found…

29 June 21

Eva in Upper 4 has written an excellent entry to the John Locke essay prize junior competition run by Princeton and Oxford universities: 2021 Essay Competition | johnlockeinstitute Eva chose the essay title: Before a certain time almost everybody would have held some belief which we now find repugnant. Does this mean we cannot admire…

7 June 21

Congratulations to Abigail in Middle 5 for winning this year’s Novel Writing Competition for the Girls’ School.  You can watch the announcement of all the winners here and read Abigail’s winning entry below. Results  Prologue He’s trapped. The dark rises to meet his heaving chest, the dust settling into the cracks on his bloodied knuckles….

21 April 21

Look at this marvellous Tree of Knowledge, filled with facts about the life and times of Shakespeare. The homework was to produce a mind map or a poster about Shakespeare, but Annabel Parsons in Lower 4 was inspired to create a tree. Nice work Annabel!

15 April 21

The most prominent Habs’ Girl in British politics is Luciana Berger: elected as the MP for Liverpool Wavertree in 2010 and winner of The Jo Cox Memorial Award for Bravery and Heroism. In 2019 she quit the Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s “repeated failure to address hatred against Jewish people (much directed at…

24 March 21

On Tuesday 9 March two of our students participated in the school round of the Poetry by Heart competition. There were three school judges and the students’ parents dialled in to watch.  Sadly, only one contestant could go through although it was very close.  Abigail made it through to the next round – the regional heat….

3 February 21

Yesterday the theatre company Box Clever delivered two online workshops to Upper 5 and Lower 6 (Year 10 and Year 11) based on their study of ‘An Inspector Calls’. Anna Fuge in Upper 5 has written about the workshop she attended. The ‘An Inspector Calls’ workshop was both an immersive and interactive learning experience we…