We’re ready to meet all our prospective new students in the English Deptartment. Come & see what English at @NottsHigh is all about & maybe devise a Shakespearean insult or two... 📚

We are super excited for the first ever @NottsHigh ‘Drop Everything and Read’ (DEAR) day this coming Wednesday 15th Jan 📚 12mins of independent reading for students & staff at the start of each lesson: so important for creativity, concentration & wellbeing! #dontforgetyourbook

Notts High IJS are also getting involved with this. I’m looking forward to sharing book recommendations with pupils and staff alike! 📚

It's @NottsHigh first ever Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) Day! Looking forward to reading this for an hour through out the school day! Nottingham High English

We can’t wait get going with DEAR today. 📚 The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Staff & students alike are looking forward to their hour of reading today!

Our first ever ‘Drop Everything and Read’ (DEAR) day at @NottsHigh is off to a great start - plenty of students and staff enthusiastically involved! 📚

2W are already enjoying our DEAR day and have brought in a great range of books to read. What a lovely quiet way to start the day!

Mr Nixey is reading Matt Walker’s ‘Europe United.’ Europe United is Walker’s account of his visits each of UEFA’s 55 member nations to see a top flight game of football during the 2017-2018 season Nottingham High School Nottingham High English

The #computing department is taking part in the @NottsHigh DEAR challenge today.

1S DropEverythingAndRead!!! #somuchmore #DEAR

Year 12 Latin students participating in our Drop Everything and Read day! @NottsHigh Nottingham High English

Enjoying DEAR day in the Maths department! @NottsHigh Library at Nottingham High School

These are some of my favourite Maths books currently found in the school library - keep on reading! Library at Nottingham High School @NottsHigh #DEAR

Enjoying my book as part of our Drop Everything and Read day #DEAR - a real buzz around school about this event @NottsHigh

Huge thanks to Lizzie Murray ON for coming in to work with our Year 12 linguists this morning. Excellent discussions around sociolinguistics, particularly regarding social attitudes towards gender and accent. 📚 Old Nottinghamians

Huge thanks to Lizzie Murray (ON 2017-2019) for coming in to work with our Year 12 linguists this morning. Excellent discussions around sociolinguistics, particularly regarding social attitudes towards gender and accent. 📚 Old Nottinghamians @NottsHigh #somuchmore

9 Castle Gate. The Site of Haywood's factory where D.H.Lawrence worked in 1901. This was Lawrence's first job after leaving #Nottingham High School. The description of the warehouse & "old-fashioned" Castle Gate feature in Sons & Lovers #Nottinghamshire

Mr Neale’s Year 10 set are researching the social, historical & economical contexts surrounding George Orwell’s 1984, as well as his political views & motives as part of their studies this morning. 📚

We were sad to say goodbye to our Year 13 Linguists for what may have been their last English Language lesson this afternoon. Best of luck to you all, you talented bunch. It has been such a privilege teaching you! 📚

‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell First published #onthisday in 1949