Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

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

Documents

Explore...

English

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

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Frankenstein

poetryarchive.org | Poetry archive

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: BBC resources

'Remains' - Armitage's reading of the poem

Macbeth quotations

A Level English Literature: moving towards a critical vocabulary

'Storm on the Island' analysis

The Divine Right of Kings

New...

Teacher of English - (Maternity cover - Possible TLR available)

E-Safety

January 2026 Examinations

Parents Evening :: Year 10

48 Hour Scares

December Mock Examinations

Learnit Physics: Formula Practice

School Policies

Discover...

English Literature English Challenge Literature Reading Enrichment A Level Context Health Savage ABU Creative Private Study Statutory Information Parent Information Heaney Key Stage 3 Teacher Just For Fun Term Dates BBC

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...