In the last two lessons we have explored how to perform ‘Beowulf’ through frozen physical pictures (tableaux). We considered why this was important: because it was from a useful tool to help us understand the story because it made the story more dramatic and exciting because it allowed us to look at different opinions about, […]

Today we explored the idea of what a quotation was and when we would use this in English. It was a challenge trying to figure it all out but we got there in the end! We decided that a quotation – when it comes to fiction work – was a word or phrase from the […]

So today we started thinking about our first text – ‘Beowulf’ and we discussed what makes an epic story. We even created our own epic story in the oral tradition of story telling – there were monsters, zombies and three different types of heroes! We considered a few words which connect to the epic story […]

There was some excellent work today and some of you managed to get your name on the tick list  – well done! Those of you who didn’t make it this time, don’t worry – you have plenty of lessons to display your hard work. Remember if you have done a piece of work that you […]

Hello Year 7. What a pleasure it was to meet you today, I think that this class has the potential to truly shine at English! Your first homework is to complete your letter to me, which tells me about yourself and your experience of school. Remember to write in the style of a letter – […]