English

 Year 7:

Students each made a PowerPoint with five things that were important to them, these ranged from hobbies, places to visit and a saccabumbapas (whatever that is) and for the last week we have been learning persuasive techniques for writing. We watched The Wish granter featuring a wish fountain and a pencil rubber looking goblin who grants peoples wishes, we are making a persuasive piece persuading people to watch or not to watch it. Even though I don’t think you should watch it and the rubber goblin is ugly and the bus had NO DRIVER… here is the link…  https://www.literacyshed.com/wishgranter.html

Liam

Student work attached: Paddy Lauren Roy

 Year 8

In year 8 we started the year off with fables, reading, investigating and then writing our own. Adding pictures to final copies made them look straight out of a children’s book, and hopefully someone may learn from them too. With the coming of next week, we will move onto essay writing, a nightmare to those who don’t like long assignments.

Student work attached : Ruby Gabby Maddy

 Year 9

The last few weeks have been narrative, narrative ,narrative for the last couple of weeks students have been writing a narrative following a story arc and using as much figurative language as possible, sadly these are coming to an end for others letting sigh of relief

Nitro

 Year 10

In English, we have been learning about connotations and denotations under the topic of visual literacy. We looked at the powerful book ‘Dust’ and analysed the pictures in it. We then had an assessment where we analysed and interpreted the deeper meaning in simple yet powerful images through the props, objects, people, text, and setting. After that, we looked at art appreciation, created our own art pieces, and explained the meaning behind it, then had an art exhibition where we got to look at everyone else’s artwork.

Rose