Archive: Jan 2017

Teacher Diaries: Ms Valencia – The Poem I Love

Teacher Diaries: Ms Valencia – The Poem I Love

Teacher Diaries: Ms Valencia – The Poem I Love

Charles Boudelaire was one of the most influential poets in the Symbolist movement in the 19th century. My favourite poem is Correspondences by Boudelaire in his well-known publication Les Fleurs du mal. We experience and perceive the world through a mixture of senses, and we usually think of the five senses as separate entities. However, in this poem, the poet engages the five senses in the form of synesthesia. Read More

Creative Writing with a Narrative Voice

Creative Writing with a Narrative Voice

Creative Writing with a Narrative Voice

The piece of work I would like to display here was completed by a P6 student called Chloe, who takes the i-Learner Critical Reading and Writing Level 6 course. She produced this piece of work as a homework assignment, and it demonstrates a fantastic grasp of how to write with an interesting narrative voice that adds to the effect of the story. Chloe has written… Read More

Literary Techniques in Descriptions

Literary Techniques in Descriptions

Literary Techniques in Descriptions

    This is a description of Victoria Harbour written by Hazel, one of my Primary 4 students, in my Love to Write class. In this writing class, I encouraged students to create vivid descriptions of a setting – so lively that readers could visualise the scene in their minds! Using the technique of “Show, Don’t Tell”, students… Read More

The 68th Speech Festival

The 68th Speech Festival

The 68th Speech Festival

In late December 2016, the 68th Speech Festival drew to a close. We have been involved with preparing students for this competition for several years, and this year was no different. We held preparation courses for the solo verse, solo prose reading, and public speaking competitions. We are proud to announce that all of the students who prepared with us received merits, with many receiving… Read More