Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): the winter quarters of a hibernating animal. Or, in human terms, a snug retreat for when life gets too cold.

E-sgoil English support timetable below covering all levels. 😎

Congratulations to Piper Oman who won the Inter-house Halloween Flash Fiction competition and to Tegan Henderson and Hazel Moran (the runners up)

Another birthday and essay completion day for the Advanced Higher Students.

Tyler doing a great job rallying the crowd at our Shakespearean hustings today and reading from Titus Andronicus. Learning about rhetoric and effective Higher folio writing. Great job everyone!

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S2 English Bloom balls! Bloom’s taxonomy in practice today featuring Edward Scissorhands. We are very impressed.

An emotional farewell today to her S6 students who have represented EA at Active School comps and Schools Cup. We will miss them but wish them all the best for the future. They will be great assets to their future netball teams. Active Schools and Sport in Moray Netball Scotland @TeamElginAcademy

Mr Clark’s class has some great responses and opinions after studying Merchant of Venice this week.

S5 interactive Shakespeare quotes brought out a sweat for the students

Celebrating National Poetry Day with S3 reading some Wilfred Owen

National Poetry Day has kept us very busy in EA English. We celebrated our S1 class poetry winners and big congratulations to our overall winner Freya.

Farmer’s Market today at EA can only mean one thing: Duffy onions

Check out our Health and Well-being display. Students from s1-s5 reflected on how their English work recognises emotions, develops empathy and helps understand other’s feelings and emotions. Great job everyone!