This week in our Critical Reading and Writing lesson we were writing some animal poems that were unusually factual. Here are two of them: My Penguin My penguin lives in Antarctica, My penguin likes eating fish, My penguin can lay eggs, And eat fish. My penguin can live to 15 to 20 years, My penguin can lay one to two… Read More
Arabian Nights / 1001 Nights To celebrate this term’s theme of ‘From Book to Book’ I was asked to write a book review for my favourite book. But storytime every other night with my Mum as a child, then reading throughout school and into university means I’ve read a lot of books over the years and therefore choosing a favourite among them is very difficult. Read More
Congratulations to all our speech festival participants. After weeks of rehearsals and practising, results have started to come in from the 68th Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival. We’d like to extend special recognition to two of our students who managed to attain top placings. Adrian (F2) won Third Prize Celeste (P2) got Second Place… Read More
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman I read this book when it first came out twenty years ago. I was utterly gripped by the story of a girl in a parallel world to our own whose soul is an animal that changes to reflect how she feels. The story is quite a serious one for a book that’s aimed at younger readers, and it excited me to… Read More
This term our Level 5-6 Love to Write Class has been focussing on realism and organised thought. We’ve spent lessons working on planning and organising writing so that the class felt prepared and confident to create careful and considered work and didn’t feel like they hard to run to the ‘get-out-of-jail’ free cards of magic. This was all done to push them as writers and… Read More
