We have an array of activities happening in next week’s Book Week!

Book week done! ✅ 📚 We have had a busy week of: Bookmark Creation; MVS Cluedo (it was Jacob Marley in the Restaurant with the Purple Pen of Peril!) Guess the reader; Reading Award Scheme Prize Draw; Short Story in a Day; Getting caught reading…

Benedick and Beatrice are in love! Y8 got into character to host interviews for the Much Ado couple’s new found romance.

FREE EMC resources for #YotoCarnegies23 shadowing groups. Do get hold of the hardbook copy of Medusa if you can - fabulous illustrations. Resources for this book by Andrew McCallum englishandmedia.co.uk/publications/y…

Some of the fantastically creative Tempest projects from our Year 7s!

Phenomenal. #MaidaValeSchool #MusicConcert

Carnegie shadowing has begun! This week we discussed Medusa by Jessie Burton. The Carnegies

Massive congratulations to Emelia who entered the ‘Never Such Innocence’ Competition entitled ‘What does war mean to you?’ Out of 3000 entrants across 70 countries, she came third with her amazing submission below!

Year 7’s have been making poetry anthologies recently, writing counterparts to poems studied, as well as original pieces. Both Otto and Nancy have produced absolutely brilliant pieces of work!

Brief notes on the theme of responsibility in An Inspector Calls douglaswise.co.uk/blog/brief-not… 🔍

3 x non-fiction resources for KS3: 1⃣ Booklet of paired texts and tasks 2⃣ Booklet of great speeches 3⃣ Booklet of texts on our world All free to download ⏬

For every school I visited, I would always start with an honest reflection of what they feel they do to support reading. Always amazing to see how much IS done and how much more CAN be done with limited impact on workload/resources too 🔑📚

📚POST! 📚 A really easy but effective strategy when beginning to teach a new novel I do this *every* time I teach a novel with a class. codexterous.home.blog/2021/08/15/the…

Gerald. Mr B is a conviction capitalist. He believes what he did is right 'for him'. Mrs B is a shameless elite with a rigid, easily offendable sense of 'right' (NB not 'justice'). Eric is a drunken idler with no morals or responsibility. However...

Due to all the love (thank you!) and high request for my character profile resources, I've uploaded to Dropbox for access: dropbox.com/scl/fo/r2kyabp…

Looking for engaging ways to get your students reading? I have created some reading bingo resources as a way to promote regular and varied reading. Would be a lot of fun for a summer challenge! Team English dropbox.com/scl/fi/rmxdulq…