Year 11 Tara K celebrates an incredible public speaking achievement, as she wins the GirlsDaySchoolTrust Chrystall Prize Public Speaking competition. Her speech was entitled ‘Degrowth is needed to save the world'. Absolutely incredible Tara! Congratulations 🎉💚

Outstanding production of ‘Streetcar’ this afternoon. Our A level English Lit students were enthralled. Thank you Almeida Theatre 🙏🏻 ✨ 🎭

We are incredibly honoured to have multi-medal winning Paralympian, politician, broadcaster and House of Lords member Tanni Grey-Thompson coming in to share her story as part of BBC 100 ‘Share Your Story’ Tour
Jasmine Takhar BBCYoungReport #paralympian #paralympics #politics #athlete

I’ve been spending a lot of time with A Streetcar Named Desire lately, and have come across what I think is some rather interesting stuff, which I thought I'd share with you.

Since this is Twitter, I thought we could start with ... birds! 🪶🐓🦩🦉🦢🦆🪶

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What an English degree did for me, by Tulip Siddiq, Sarah Waters and more | Higher education | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2022…

…that moment when an ex-student comes back into school to share their first published poetry collection with you…🥰 incredibly proud of you, Shermya! #powerofpoetry #learningwithoutlimits Croydon High School

We are so proud of our #CroydonHigh #AmnestyGroup for their assembly on the Afghan crisis & for creating these striking images to highlight the issues facing Afghan girls. The Y10 pupils concisely summarised the situation & passionately explained how young women are affected. 👇

We are now writing a scene involving a haunted object as a way to establish the rising action ✍️

'No one else will ever be able to write what you have just written because we each draw on different connections - and that's really empowering. Your voice matters and is valued.'

Really empowering words to hear for writing and motivation from ominously eerie Adam Z. Robinson #Writing

Creative writing club hearing all about what it’s like to have a career as a writer - fascinating insight from ⁦Adam Z. Robinson⁩ ! #croydonhighfutures #artscareers #beyondthecurriculum ✍️ 📚

Spooked to be working with ⁦Adam Z. Robinson⁩ creating ghost stories with Year 10 👻 #learningwithoutlimits #beyondthecurricuum

Let me tell you about why we ❤️ Drama Croydon High School

In case you missed it:

There were 2,000 fewer entries to A-Level English literature this year than in 2020 - and 6,269 fewer than in 2017.

Read our latest post here:
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2021/10/why-ar…

Topics of 8B's new stories:
🎤 Sarah Everard
🎤 Fuel
🎤 Negative stereotypes of race which can be perpetuated on social media
🎤 Mental well-being

Ms Bradley and Mrs Miller are being interviewed about the thirsty fuel crisis! #RealWorldReady 🎤

It's project day for BBC Young Reporter for 8B. Our scripts are clear, concise and correct and now we are beginning to film 📱📷 #EnterpriseTech #Media Croydon High School GirlsDaySchoolTrust

Thank you Sam Illingworth for inspiring our cross curricular workshop on eco-critical approaches to literature for National Poetry Day #CrossCurricular #LearnWithoutLimits Croydon High School

Workshop one - exploring envrionmental issues through powerful poetry

Workshop two - recreating poems with excerpts

Workshop three - engaging with critical debate about the representation of animals