Bluebottles
Year 10 have been writing the beginnings of short stories in preparation for their English Language Paper One. They have been looking at...
Book Club: Dulce et Decorum Est
We clung together, starving, exhausted and desperate to escape this hell hole. There was a strange chill in the air, fear, and all around...
Book Club: Dulce et Decorum Est
In English we have been studying the Micheal Morpurgo novel "Private Peaceful", focusing on the destruction and horror of war. We've also...
An Apple a day….?
Year 10 student, Izzie Gee, tells us why she doesn't want the new iPhone for Christmas ... Life in the 21st century is clearly a lot...
Book Club: Dulce et Decorum est
We are trudging, trudging back, trudging back to camp, trudging back to a camp of rest, (sort of,) trudging back with the sound of death...
A Life of Crime?
Many schools invite published authors in to give talks. There can’t be many schools, though, that can boast an author on their permanent...
Book Club: History Boys Commentary
In this piece, I attempted to recreate a scene from Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’ which I studied in Year 12. I have chosen to base...
Book Club: "A book about what it is to be human how far do you agree with this statement?"
Mortality is an important feature of human life, everything must come to an end. Like humans, clones are born to die however their lives...
The Trump Supremacy
​​​​​​With the American 2016 election now safely behind us, we can all safely say Donald Trump being elected is bound to bring surprises...
My Playlist
Music has played an integral role in my life so far, succouring me in times of despondency, elevating me in times of ecstasy and...
