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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

Documents

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Alexander Gordon Smith

Literary Devices - Literary Terms, Techniques, and Elements

Animal Farm

Animal Farm, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4

Academic challenge and independence; attainment

BBC Bitesize - GCSE English Literature - Macbeth

Top 10 Notes: Animal Farm

'London' analysis

Guardsman Tromans Simon Armitage's 'Remains'

A Level English Literature Reading Record

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E-Safety

Summer 2026 Examinations

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

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English Literature English Challenge Literature Reading Cultural Competition Mrs Davy Power and Conflict Computer Science BBC Bitesize Context Revision GCSE Drama GCSE College Sixth Form Internet Safety Theatre Drama Year 9 Options

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