Reminder for this week!

Creative Writing Club, KS3 Book Club and KS4 Book Club are back next week following a break due to exam revision sessions! Looking forward to seeing everyone there 😃

Wishing the very best of luck to all Year 10 students sitting the Unit 1 exam for GCSE English Literature today! You have all worked so hard. You can do it! 🍀

A full house, and fantastic focus from Year Ten during the Exam Breakfast this morning - all ready to go and take care of business 💪 Crickhowell HS CrickEnglishDepartment

A fantastic meeting with KS3 Book Club today! It was wonderful to talk all things GrishaVerse, The Many Worlds of Albie Bright, The Giften and Percy Jackson📚❤️ Some great recommendations shared! #ReadersMakeLeaders

Y9 had a fantastic day at the Hay Festival before half term! They enjoyed talks from Phil Earle, Anthony Horowitz, Aneirin Karadog and Nicola Garrard and had a wonderful time enjoying the stalls, stands and bookshops. Check out our new Hay Festival display in school! 👏🏻📚

A fantastic final meeting of the year for KS3 book club today! We celebrated with some snacks, bookish stickers and designing our own bookmarks. What a fantastic group! 👏🏻📚❤️

A group of our A Level English Literature and English Language & Literature students attended a fantastic creative writing workshop Cardiff Metropolitan University yesterday. They had a fantastic time exploring poetry and dystopian fiction! ✨📚

The CHS Reading Olympics Challenge! 📚🥇🥈🥉 Let’s get reading…

Voice 21 Oracy Talk Tactics really helped Year 11 prepare for their Group Discussion this morning 👍 Crickhowell HS CrickEnglishDepartment

Fantastic news this week! Sophia has been selected as one of the winners in the Young Writers’ ‘Mission Chaos’ competition and will now be published! 📚✨ Well done Sophia! We are so proud and can’t wait to see your work in print.

Inspired by CHS Maths Department, check out our brand new ‘Meet the English Department’ board! 📚😁

We had a lovely evening welcoming parents’ and future students! It was wonderful to meet everyone 📚😁

The Crick Book Nook is officially open from Monday 23rd September! Open for students looking for a quiet space to read or study in school. Book borrowing service also available! Found in E4 📚❤️

A huge congratulations to the CHS ‘Reading Olympians’! These students completed our summer reading Olympics challenge, with some of them totalling over 15 books! It was wonderful to see them collect their certificates and gold medals yesterday! 📚❤️ Da iawn pawb! 👏🏻

This week our ‘Student Librarians’ will receive their official badges! These pupils have already been so helpful in organising and keeping on top of our Crick Book Nook! 📚👏🏻

Happy National Poetry Day! Our students are celebrating by exploring the Young Writers ‘The Beautiful Truth’ competition. We have some fantastic entries! ❤️📚✨

A great lesson with 8Y as they made plans for their First Give social action. They worked so well in their groups. Lots of brilliant ideas for fundraising, and some pretty wild ones too 🤣 Crickhowell HS CrickEnglishDepartment CHS Welsh Bac, Careers & Enrichment

Trialing some new approaches with my wonderful Year 9 class who are writing persuasive speeches. I’ve introduced ‘Pit Stops’ as explicit pauses in the writing process for students to reflect on progress against the success criteria. I have loved it! ❤️✏️✨

Some wonderful visits to the library today with Year 8! Lots of students enjoying the atmosphere, getting stuck into some books and signing up to the library ❤️📚👏🏻