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Classic Literature Reading Challege

Read a classic over the holidays.

 

1)     Improve your vocabulary

2)     Increase your knowledge

3)     Read something of value

4)     Understand history and cultural context

5)     Enrich your own life

6)     Challenge your brain

7)     Knowledge is power

8)     Share in the human experience

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Remains by Simon Armitage - Revision 1 - GCSE English Literature - BBC Bitesize

Year 9 Poetry research

Macbeth quotations

Year 7 Childhood and Adventure - Week 3: reasons why reading is important

Alexander Gordon Smith

'London' analysis

poetryarchive.org | Poetry archive

'Storm on the Island'

'Storm on the Island' analysis

Year 7 English poems

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Local Governing Body Information

Photography Competition

Pan's Labyrinth Analysis

Parents Evening :: Year 12

December Mock Examinations

January 2026 Examinations

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