Ever wondered how you can make connections with your long-term memory and keep a healthy state of mind while revising? We spoke to Rachel Dodge, WJEC Qualifications Development Manager and PhD in Psychology (focused on student wellbeing!) for her top tips! 👇🧵

Taking exams or assessments this week? Remember - it's important to give your brain a break afterwards, rather than re-live it by comparing answers on social media or with your friends. Reward yourself by doing something non-exam related before you jump back in to revision! 😊

Year 11: your teachers will be in the canteen tomorrow morning for any last minute questions. Get a good rest tonight and show off your Literature skills tomorrow.

Good luck this morning Year 11. We are available from 8am and we know you will do us proud on Unit 2 Lit.

Year 12: your English teachers are available to support you before Unit 2 Lit on Friday. Any questions, please let us know! Check your Google Classroom for info on how to answer the questions, context and critic info and past papers.

Beautiful day at Hay Schools Day!

Say ‘Hay!’

How to make an English teacher happy.

Brilliant day out with Year 8&9 at Hay Festival 📚☀️EnglishCHS

Hay Festival book haul!

We hope you are finding time to relax over half term Year 11. What better way to do so AND hone your skills for your English Language exam than by reading something for pleasure-novel, short story, newspaper, magazine?

The poet John Masefield was born #OTD 1878. Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967, he's fallen out of fashion, but 'Sea Fever' still strikes a memorable note: 'I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

The English dept will be in the canteen from 8am tomorrow ready to support you with any final Unit 2 Lang questions, Year 11. (And then access your English teacher during lesson time next week to make sure you are fully prepped for Unit 3!)

Final English exam tomorrow year 11! We’ll be ready and waiting in the canteen from 8am.

Congrats Year 11! You have completed your English GCSEs and have done us proud. Lots of happy faces after today’s exam.

Quite amazing to see over 130 lower school singers rehearsing for Lion King after school today. Fantastic commitment and a LOT of excitement! CHS Miss Edge

English teachers! Are you joining us online at 4pm this Thursday? bl.uk/events/romeo-a… We're thrilled to be running free CPD on Romeo and Juliet in context, with the brilliant Professor Emma Smith, teacher Patrick Cragg, and Interim Artistic Director of the RSC Erica Whyman.

Not sure what to do this weekend? Beth am fynd i Tafwyl ? CHS CardiffHighSixthForm Llawer o fandiau byw

CHS Celebrating Diversity

I’ve always loved the way language is punctuated by places: jeans are ‘from Genoa’, denim is from Nîmes in France, suede from Sweden, mayonnaise from Minorca’s Port Mahon, damask from Damascus, sardines and sardonic from Sardinia, and spruce (both the tree and a neat appearance)