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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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English

Call You & Yours: What Inspired You to Read?, You and Yours - BBC Radio 4

Academic challenge and independence; attainment

'Storm on the Island' analysis

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: BBC resources

Macbeth (Shakespeare) - Thug Notes Summary and Analysis

Year 9 Poetry research

Book recommendations Year 8

The Divine Right of Kings

Alexander Gordon Smith

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Oliver Tickets on Sale Now

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

How to write scene transitions

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

Find My Kids App

Superimposition in film

School Policies

The importance of scene transitions

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